Star light, star bright: FSU facility duplicating conditions of supernovas

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Standing in front of the RESOLUT facility are from left Ingo Wiedenhoever an associate professor of physics and leader of the RESOLUT team at Florida State University graduate research assistants Eric Diffenderfer and Patrick Peplowski Professor Samu ...
Standing in front of the RESOLUT facility are, from left, Ingo Wiedenhoever, an associate professor of physics and leader of the RESOLUT team at Florida State University; graduate research assistants Eric Diffenderfer and Patrick Peplowski; Professor Samuel L. Tabor, who directs the John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory at FSU; and assistant scholar/scientist Lagy Baby. Credit: Ken Ford/Florida State University department of physics

How is matter created? What happens when stars die? Is the universe shrinking, or is it expanding? For decades, scientists have been looking for answers to such "big picture" questions.


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