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Listen; There's a Hell of a Good Universe Next Door; Let's GoScientific research is key to our nation's technological and economic development. One can attempt to focus research toward specific applications, but science has a way of surprising us. Think for example of the "charge-couple device", which was originally invented for memory storage, but became the modern digital camera that is used everywhere from camera phones to the Hubble Space Telescope. Using digital cameras, Hubble has taken pictures that reach back 12 billion light-years into the past, when the Universe was only 1-2 billion years old. Such results would never have been possible with the film cameras Hubble was originally supposed to use. Over the past two decades, Hubble and other telescopes have shown us much about the Universe -- many of these results are shocking. Our galaxy is swarming with planets; most of the mass in the Universe is invisible; and our Universe is accelerating ever faster and faster for unknown reasons. Thus, we live in a "hell of a good universe", to quote e.e. cummings, that we fundamentally don't understand. This means that you, as young scientists, have many worlds to discover
Document ID
20120012518
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Rigby, Jane R. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 26, 2013
Publication Date
March 2, 2012
Subject Category
Astronomy
Report/Patent Number
GSFC.ABS.6248.2012
Meeting Information
Meeting: National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Location: Bethesda, MD
Country: United States
Start Date: March 2, 2011
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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