Eye on the Sky

Multimedia · Thu Jul 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017

OSTI ID:1373577

Johnson, Spencer

Every night in a remote clearing called Fenton Hill high in the Jemez Mountains of central New Mexico, a bank of robotically controlled telescopes tilt their lenses to the sky for another round of observation through digital imaging. Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Thinking Telescopes project is watching for celestial transients including high-power cosmic flashes called blazars, and like all science, it can be messy work. But for a graduate student at the Lab taking a year’s break between master’s and Ph.D. studies, working with these state-of-the-art autonomous telescopes that can make fundamental discoveries feels light years beyond the classroom.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1373577
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
LANL
FENTON HILL
AUTONOMOUS TELESCOPES
OPTICAL TRANSIENTS
BLAZARS
EXTREME PHYSICS
COSMIC PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
DATA ANALYSIS