Summer "Visit" - 2020 - Spider Team

Quotes

• [student:] The whole process felt like we were doing some real science. We were looking at real stars, collected by real telescopes, and sorted out and categorized the stars. We made SEDs and color-color diagrams of the stars for our research. It was definitely real astronomy.
• Astronomers don’t look at the stars. They look at their computers. Not that that’s a bad thing.
• [the qualities of an astronomer are:] Math and patience. Maybe not in that order.
• [student:] I was surprised with how quickly I could understand some things but not others, so I was forced to focus my energy on the concepts that needed refinement.
• [student:] This experience changed the way I thought about astronomy research because I did not think it was as digital as it is. I did not think it was going to be as much computer work.

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