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Kim Arcand “Your Ticket to the Universe” NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory April 2014 @ Scituate Middle School Twitter: @kimberlykowal Coloring the Universe

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Talking light, the electromagnetic spectrum, color, astronomy and STEM careers with the Scituate RI middle school.

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  • 1. Kim Arcand Your Ticket to the Universe NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory April 2014 @ Scituate Middle School Twitter: @kimberlykowal Coloring the Universe

2. NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory 3. Started off studying this. Tiny stuff. 4. Moved into this 5. Ended up here. Huge stuff. 6. ZAP! You shuffle along a carpet, reach out to touch a doorknob andzap!a sudden flow of current, or electric discharge, gives you a mild shock. The cause? Friction between your feet and the carpet built up negative electric charge on your body. Electric discharges can occur wherever there is a large build-up of electric charge, and can create spectacular displays of sudden energy release on Earth and in space. http://hte.si.edu/electric 7. Atomic Light Show Atoms, the building blocks of matter, are constantly in motion, moving around at speeds that are thousands of miles per hour at room temperatures, and millions of miles per hour behind a supernova shock wave. In a collision of an atom with another atom, or with a free-roaming electron, energy can be transferred to the atom. This extra energy can then be released in the form of a light wave. http://hte.si.edu/atoms 8. Seeding The growth of new structures depends on the introduction of novel material into an environment. Bees distribute pollen from one plant to another, promoting reproduction in plants. Farmers seed and fertilize soil to enable the growth of selected crops. Oxygen, iron and other heavy elements necessary for the formation of planets are distributed into interstellar space by supernova explosions. http://hte.si.edu/seedingmore.html 9. A lot of data, in many kinds of light 10. The electromagnetic spectrum 11. Take an alien to a baseball game 12. Take an alien to a baseball game 13. Delicate filamentary structure at 10,000 14. Death comes ALIVE! 15. FITTING PIECES TOGETHER 16. MAPPING INTO 3 DIMENSIONS http://3d.si.edu/ 17. The Age of Photoshop 18. 10001010100010010111110101010010101010100100101010 11111101010100101100010010101001001010100010101001 01010101000101001111111010100000101101000100100100 10100101010100111111101101010010010010111111010011 01010110100010101111010101010101001010101110110010 10101001100101010101001010101010100101101111010001 00101001011001000001010011111010010101001010110101 01001010101010010010010100101010101001111010010001 00101001010101001010101010010101010010101001100101 01010100010111101101010010010010111111010011010101 10100010101111010101010101001010101110110010101001 11111101010000010110100010010010010100101010100111 10100101010010101001010101001010110100101010100101 00101010101010111011001010101001100101010101001010 10101010010110111101000100101001011001000001010011 11101001010101010111011001010101001100101010101001 010101010100101101111010001001010010 What the data really looks like 19. Science publications 20. Add Color 21. This is contributing to the informational quotient of an image. Oxygen Neon Magnesium Silicon & Sulfur Making the invisible visible 22. Many colors 23. Patchwork Sun 24. Earth vs. Mars 25. [email protected] Twitter: @kimberlykowal http://chandra.si.edu http://yourtickettotheuniverse.com