Andrew Shaw, Tyler Matheny and Antonia Orsini
For those who go beyond.
Like Andrew Shaw, Tyler Matheny and Antonia Orsini.At West Virginia University, the sky’s not the limit. It’s the starting line for students like Andrew Shaw, Tyler Matheny and Antonia Orsini.
The three physics majors used the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, W.Va., to identify six new pulsars — remnants of massive stars that have exploded.
The search was tedious. They sifted through volumes and volumes of radio telescope data. But hard work paid off in the thrill of finding something in a far-off galaxy, never before seen by humans.
"Knowing that you’re the person who found that particular pulsar in the complete vastness of space, an incomprehensible distance away from Earth, is honestly mind-boggling."
—Antonia Orsini
WVU students and professors are part of an international search for pulsars. It’s the frontier of discovery. And you can be part of it.
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