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Out of this world! Student takes stunning snaps of space using only a £30 second- hand camera and a balloon
- Device costing £200 launched by Worcestershire teenager Adam Cudworth
- Spent 40 hours working on box with GPS tracker, radio & microprocessor
- Located device after fall back to earth having reached speeds of 150mph
When you think how much it costs the likes of NASA to take astonishing images like this, it’s even more impressive what a teenager can do on a £200 budget. Adam Cudworth, 19, of Ombersley, Worcestershire, managed to capture these incredible views of the earth from space – using little more than a balloon and a second-hand £30 camera bought on eBay.
With a scientific background consisting of just a physics A-Level, Adam spent 40 hours working on a homemade box with a GPS tracker, radio and microprocessor – which he released last Thursday.
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These creatures certainly won’t win any beauty competitions… and anyone with a phobia of insects might be best advised to look away now.
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Survey gets a grip on dark energy
Astronomers have measured the precise distance to over a quarter of a million galaxies to gain new insights into a key period in cosmic history.
The 3D map of the sky allows scientists to probe the time six billion years ago when dark energybecame the dominant influence on the Universe’s expansion.
No-one knows the true nature of this repulsive force, but the exquisite data in the internationalBOSS survey will help test various theories.
The analysis appears in six papers.
These have all been posted on the arXiv preprint server.
“This is an incredibly exciting time to be working in cosmology, and we’re all privileged to be part of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS),” said Prof Will Percival from the University of Portsmouth – a UK member of the international research group.
“What we’ve done is measure the 3D positions for just over 250,000… Continue reading
