WN@tL: ““What the Heck is X-ray Astronomy, and Why Do We Bother?”

Speaker: Dan McCammon, Physics

Description:  A story about how a rocket flight amongst the creepy-crawlies of the Australian boondocks is related to what our Universe is made of, and why you need to cool your X-ray detectors to 1/20th of a degree above absolute zero to look at million-degree gas.

Explore More:  https://wisp.physics.wisc.edu/xray/

https://wisp.physics.wisc.edu/xray/xqc.html

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