Frozen Assets, Diego Rivera
Have what it takes to be an astrophysicist?
Learn how Matt Geske (Penn State grad student - Physics) became involved in researching cosmic rays by flying a GINORMOUS* balloon over Antarctica.
Research supervisor Stéphane Coutu explains.
*GINORMOUS = could fit two 747 jets inside it, nose to tail
from Chronicles of Matt Geske, Cosmic Ray Particle Collector
You’re made of carbon, you’re made of oxygen, there’s iron in your blood. All of those things had to be generated inside the core of a star. There’s no other way to get them. So when you think about star stuff, look around you. Everything that you’re made of, everything the world around you is made of had to come from the belly of a star that blew up a long time ago.
The last five minutes of Extreme Stars, an episode from the Discovery Channel’s How the Universe Works. (Can’t wait to watch all of these with the kids.)
