Learn about how and why NASA false-colors x-ray images; then follow the same procedure to create your own images and compare them to the NASA ones.
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A Computational Investigation of the Structures, Energies, and Formation Pathways of Interstellar Anions
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Measure carbon abundances, using the medium-resolution spectroscopy (MRS) technique, for stars in the Milky Way's dwarf satellites
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How Does Light Intensity of a Star Change with Distance?
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The Effect of Altitude on the Detection of Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber
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Determine whether or not galaxies cluster, and if so, to measure that clustering.
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Extracting Oxygen from Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulant
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Research Radio Astronomy and Build an Amateur Radio Telescope
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A Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) diagram of blazar S5 0716+714 using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, ground based optical telescopes, and a radio telescope.
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Research White Dwarfs
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter with LENS: A New Directionally Sensitive Low Energy WIMP Detector
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The Thermodynamics of the Rings of Saturn
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Simulation of terrestrial impact craters
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The Weird World of Planets in Binary Star Systems
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Adaptive Optics and Its Role in Stellar Scintillation
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Quantifying the Effect of Skyglow on the Visibility of Stars
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Analyze ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers and characterize their energies and apparent direction of origin.
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Build and demonstrate a sidereal pointer - an instrument that allows you to localize each celestial object in the night sky.
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Investigate and use parallax to determine distances
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The effects of the temperature of the universe on Black Holes as the universe ages.
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Investigate the Cosmological theory of the Big Bang
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