Chelen Johnson
Cosmic dIRt is examining the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The teachers who I have met through NITARP are just amazing. I am continually impressed by how hard they work and how enthusiastically they learn.
I was nearly moved to tears watching the students share our research at the poster session.
In its current form, anyone with moderate computer skills and high school physics can download, explore, and begin to understand available data.
