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Module 5B: Group 4

After plotting psr_0329_54 in skynet’s plotting software I was able to Sonify the pulsar. I was able to find out the period of the pulsar through this sonification which I ending up measuring .8 seconds ± .1. This data fits … Continue reading

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Module 5a: Star Death – William Ames & Bradley Amour

In Module 5A, my partner and I studied the remnants of stellar decay. NGC 5189 is a planetary nebula that has a field of gasses surrounding a white dwarf. The white dwarf is the core of a star that is … Continue reading

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Module 1-A Group 1 – Will Ames & Abram Rodriguez

My partner and I enjoyed messing around and tweaking our observations on Skynet. There were definitively some challenges, but we were able to work through them by getting lots of observations early on in the week. The images were taken … Continue reading

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