The article about our telescope is linked above. I thought this quote was pretty good:The science is known as helioseismology, and it is no small task. "It's like deducing the interior structure of a piano by listening to it fall down a flight of stairs," Scherrer said.
In case you couldn't tell by the eyebrows, I'm the guy in the bunny suit on top. Actually, this picture was taken about a year ago before we were done building our telescope, but now that we have delivered it to Goddard (why I've been in DC a couple times recently) the press releases are coming out. Kinda funny - in that picture there's no screw anywhere near where I'm putting the wrench, the photographer just wanted to make it look like I was doing something and apparently that was a photogenic place to act like I was screwing something in. And he spent some 20 minutes getting the angle just right so the flash would glint off the telescope's front window like that.
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Very cool, Tom! And, yep, I can tell it is you.
Mom
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