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• Track Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber
  A cloud chamber is a tool that reveals the path of cosmic rays or other energetic charged particles. Because it permits us to measure
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• Elementary Astronomy Laboratory Activities
  ....edu/astrowiki/index.php/Track_Cosmic_Rays_in_a_Cloud_Chamber Track Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber]
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• Galaxies Near and Far
  == Cosmic Background Radiation == Cosmic Background Radiation was first thought to be noise and blamed it on two nes
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• Image processing with Python and SciPy
  ...re effectively than averaging because one source of noise in CCD images is cosmic ray events that produce an occasional large signal at a pixel. If we mean- ...the contributing image exposure times. Because of guiding errors, cosmic rays, and weather, one very long exposure is often not possible, but 10's or 10
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• Mars
  ...d [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_radiation cosmic radiation] , gamma rays, especially since there is dust and clouds of water ice in the atmosphere.
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• Special Relativity
  ...arped, stretched out. A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray#Detection cosmic ray muon] that would decay in a millionth of a second standing still, lives ...VSd7ZFqbOqALGraCcCQ&q=cosmic+rays&hl=en cloud chamber], by counting cosmic rays at the top of a mountain, and again at the bottom. To the muon it seems tha
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• Survey Galaxies in Virgo
  ...matter in the universe by observing light left over from the Big Bang, the cosmic background radiation. From such measurements we have discovered that while ...all individual images. Now, imaging databases recorded in visible light, x-rays, and in the infrared, are available in digital form over the Internet, prov
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• The Story of the Universe
  ...ational attraction to become the first stars and clusters of galaxies. The Cosmic Background Radiation which we see today originated about 300,000 years afte *Cosmic Background Radiation or "First Light"
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• Things Beyond Our Understanding - Dark Matter and Dark Energy
  ...arth, and by looking for evidence of their decay and interaction in cosmic rays. The spectrum of the cosmic background radiation we observe is an exact match to the spectrum we expect
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• Track Cosmic Rays in a Cloud Chamber
  A cloud chamber is a tool that reveals the path of cosmic rays or other energetic charged particles. Because it permits us to measure
  11 KB (1,899 words) - 14:18, 19 November 2013