AstroReachSD: Dark Matter and Python

Project scientist Jarred Roberts leads students on a tour of Professor Steve Boggs' High Energy Physics lab.

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Roberts talks to students about NASA's upcoming COSI (Compton Spectrometer and Imager) mission.

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The Boggs lab is part of the team working on COSI, a wide-field gamma-ray telescope that will study energetic phenomena in the Milky Way.

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Graduate student James Wiley leads students on a tour of Professor Shelley Wright's Optical and Infrared lab.

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Wiley holds up a model of PANOSETI - a collection of telescopes that can provide "all-sky, all the time" observation.

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Wiley shows a Fresnel lens to students. The lightweight lens is used in the PANOSETI telescopes.

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Wiley shows how light gathers in Fresnel lenses, which are often used in lighthouses.

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Students were able to learn about astronomical research and glimpse what life is like working in a science lab.

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