High school summer research opportunities

Application The Caltech Summer Research Connection and Evan Kirby, assistant professor of astronomy, are excited to offer research opportunities this summer! Professor Kirby uses stellar spectroscopy to measure the elemental compositions of stars, and he uses those measurements to infer which types of stars existed long ago and how quickly those stars were forming and dying. His favorite type of galaxy is a dwarf galaxy. Dwarf galaxies are near enough…

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