NASA-funded physics research at WVU aims to create new stars among local teachers and HBCU students - EurekAlert

West Virginia University physicists are helping NASA measure light from distant stars and involving local high school science teachers in the process.

image: The lab of Mikel Holcomb, associate professor of physics and astronomy, contains an optics table with an ultrafast laser. It is designed to pump a lot of power into a sample in order to see wh… [+4444 chars]

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