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Plasma Prominences and Cosmic Rays
A Catalyst article about the use of remote telescopes and detecting cosmic rays. Giant telescopes that can be operated remotely are located in Hawaii and Australia and are known as the Faulkes telescopes.
These are available to students in the UK to do original research with, and enable the following activities:
*Colour imaging - creating high quality, detailed images of distant galaxies and nebulae.
*Supernovae observations – studying huge explosions of giant stars. Recording how their brightness changes over time facilitates finding out how fast it is expanding.
*Near Earth Objects (NEO’s) – tracking small asteroids and rocks that could potentially hit the Earth.
*Exoplanets – these are planets outside our solar system. Little is known about these planets that orbit other stars and some could potentially hold life.
This article is from Catalyst: GCSE Science Review 2009, Volume 20, Issue 1.
Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Annual subscriptions to print copies of the magazine can be purchased from Mindsets.
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