Working Towards a Clearer View of What’s Happening in Space

Galactic cosmic rays provide information about what’s going on in our galaxy and what our planets are made of. While we have great experimental data available to understand various galactic processes, this data needs to be well supplemented by nuclear data. In this respect, scientists perform nuclear-related experiments, including one completed in March 2024 at an accelerator at Brookhaven National Lab where scientists blasted a few choice metals with protons. Join Dr. Priyarshini Ghosh, a nuclear astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as she discusses how these experiments will help us to better understand our own galaxy. This was recorded on April 18, 2024.

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