1 / 10

NASA's XMM-Newton Mission Partners with LTI to Develop an X-ray STARLAB Cylinder

NASA's XMM-Newton Mission Partners with LTI to Develop an X-ray STARLAB Cylinder. By Tim Graves and Dr. Lynn Cominsky of Sonoma State University. What is the Starlab. A portable planetarium Silver fabric dome Projector Fan Vast array of projection cylinders

quin-riddle
Download Presentation

NASA's XMM-Newton Mission Partners with LTI to Develop an X-ray STARLAB Cylinder

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. NASA's XMM-Newton Mission Partners with LTI to Develop an X-ray STARLAB Cylinder By Tim Graves and Dr. Lynn Cominsky of Sonoma State University

  2. What is the Starlab • A portable planetarium • Silver fabric dome • Projector • Fan • Vast array of projection cylinders • Designed by Learning Technologies Inc.

  3. What we do at SSU • We are the NASA Education and Public Outreach group for the XMM Newton space science mission. • XMM Newton Science Goals • When and where are the chemical elements created? • How does nature heat gas to X-ray emitting temperatures?

  4. The XMM Newton Starlab Cylinder

  5. M45 (The Pleiades) Sirius A M88 (Spiral Galaxy) Orion The Optical Sky Featuring some common objects that students may be familiar with

  6. Sirius B M88 in X-rays The X-ray Sky • The unfamiliar X-ray sky provoking questions about • X-rays • The electromagnetic spectrum • The nature of X-ray objects in the universe.

  7. Sirius A and B, a nearby binary star system. Sirius B, a white dwarf has a surface temp. of over 25,000 degrees! Note that Sirius A is brighter in optical, but dimmer in X-rays. Tying it all Together The night sky in both optical and X-rays. X-ray is in BLUE Optical is in RED

  8. Accompanying Materials • Along with the X-ray Cylinder will be an activity book. • Discussing the X-ray sky • X-ray objects • Packed full of other ready-to-use activities in line with other Learning Technologies Inc. booklets.

  9. Finding and Using a Starlab • Where can I get my hands on a Starlab??? • If you’re nearby SSU visit http://epo.sonoma.edu/starlab and you can reserve ours online for $30 a day or $100 a week. • Call or email Learning Technologies Inc. to see if there is a local Starlab owner in your area who might let you borrow it for you students.

  10. Links and Acknowledgements • Thanks to Learning Technologies Inc. for embarking on this project with us. • SSU EPO - http://epo.sonoma.edu • XMM EPO – http://xmm.sonoma.edu • LTI - starlab@starlab.com or 1 (800) 537-8703 or http://www.starlab.com/

More Related