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Chandra Astrophysics Institute | Highlights for High School

The Chandra Astrophysics Institute (CAI) is an opportunity for students in grades 9-11 from a wide range of academic backgrounds to train for and undertake astronomy projects. The students are mentored by MIT scientists and use observations from the Chandra X-Ray space telescope.

Keywords:: variable x-ray sources, high school, Highlights for High School, blackbody properties, astrophysics, scientific notation, chandra, MIT OpenCourseWare, production of light, crab nebula, galaxy clusters, supernova remnants

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: May 12, 2016
Author:: Unknown (Know the author?)
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: High School
Technical Format:: Website
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States