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How do astronomers test-drive a telescope?

Posted on October 27, 2020
an array of mirrors in the desert

Graduate student Leslie Taylor helped fine-tune a high-energy gamma-ray telescope this summer. Detecting the Crab Nebula was the “gold standard” for success.

 

Read the full story at the L&S website.

Posted in Cosmology, Graduate Students, Research, WIPAC

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