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What soap bubbles and telescopes have in common?

What soap bubbles and telescopes have in common?. Very Large Telescope Interferometer - ESO. Cyclone on Mars. Cyclone on Earth. Soap bubble. Troughs. wavelength. +. -. frequency. wavelength. +. -. Red : about 700 billionths of a meter Violet : about 400 billionths of a meter.

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What soap bubbles and telescopes have in common?

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  1. What • soap bubbles • and • telescopes have in common? Very Large Telescope Interferometer - ESO

  2. Cyclone on Mars Cyclone on Earth Soap bubble

  3. Troughs

  4. wavelength + - frequency wavelength + - Red: about 700 billionths of a meter Violet: about 400 billionths of a meter

  5. Interference!

  6. Interference CONSTRUCTIVE DESTRUCTIVE

  7. CLUES Thin sandwich Black -> destructive interference

  8. REFLECTION Optical reflecting Telescopes Magellan Telescope, Chile Carnegie Institution, University of Arizona, Harvard University, University of Michigan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  9. Interference ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer - Chile NRAO Very Large Array New Mexico (USA)

  10. ALMA, Chile - international collaboration! 66 ANTENNAE www.almaobservatory.org

  11. INTERFERENCE Very Large Telescope Interferometer - ESO

  12. Zubbles: the colored bubbles! Sketch to do www.zubbles.com

  13. Cyclone on Mars Cyclone on Earth Soap bubble

  14. A HUGE THANK YOU TO Ted Ducas, Walter Lewin, Dick Larson and Liz Murray, Craig Milanesi, Jane & Neil Pappalardo, Mike Stevens, the astrograds and Balu’

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