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Cosmology Workshop 2008

George Smoot welcomes workshop participants and discusses the Relics of Creation

Laurie Kerrigan shows students how to use Hands-on-Universe (HOU) website to look for asteroids

Students calculating the Hubble constant

Eric Linder discusses the vagaries of Dark Matter

Glen Melnik and students learn about the history and fate of the universe through the Universeadventure.org poster

Students look through light diffraction grating slides - rollover image to see what happens to light through the diffraction slide

Students learning about parallax

Using parallax to measure distance

Rich Lohman explaining parallax measurement exercise to students

Stu Luken discusses cosmic rays

Students presenting their method to determine distance using light

Presentations on how to find distance using light

Rollie Otto shows students how lenses bend light rays

Students share the joy of cosmology

Mia Ihm demonstrates the curvature of space due to gravity

Rodger Johnson explains the design and function of a cosmic ray detector

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