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I found the rarest supernova ever to be found, which is really cool.
We heart Caroline…
Our beloved teen astronomer, Caroline Moore, will be appearing on the national radio show, The Takeaway, tomorrow morning. She’s going to be talking about the Hubble telescope, which is, of course, only slightly cooler than Caroline’s PINK telescope! Find a station that airs The Takeaway or listen to the show online. And if you wind up missing Caroline tomorrow, the show will be archived here.
UPDATE: Listen to Caroline.
15-year-old Laura may need another driving lesson.
Today’s post is from Associate Producer, Laura Willcox.
Like Caroline Moore, I was a 15-year-old girl once. But unlike her, I didn’t have the President inviting me to the White House to celebrate the rare astronomical discovery I had made.
I was just your average high school freshman, struggling to figure out who I was and what the heck I wanted to do. At that age, I couldn’t really have told you what my passions were, so instead, I ended up discovering them the hard way. I spent a year playing field hockey (because all my friends were) only to discover that the sole aspect of the sport I enjoyed was singing along to Christina Aguilera with my entire team on the bus rides to away games (don’t judge). Eventually, I’d stumble upon an activity that involved a lot more singing and a lot less mid-fielding: theater. Turns out all those “stomach aches” I was faking to get out of field hockey practice were just my inner actress looking for a way to express herself.
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Caroline with her pink telescope in the SLoS studios
To borrow one of her favorite words, what’s really “cool” about Caroline Moore isn’t that she’s the youngest person to ever discover a supernova (and an incredibly rare one at that). What’s really cool about Caroline is that she discovered that supernova… and she’s such a teenager—a smart, self-aware, funny teenager who’s living a real-world double life way cooler than Hannah Montana’s:
“Well, at school, I’m an average student. I’m doing after-school activities just like everyone else, hanging out with my friends on the weekends. I ski and do plenty of normal kid things. And then on other days, after the school doors close, I’m doing a phone interview for NPR. Or I’m coming down here to New York—I just came from school, came right down here [to the SLoS studios] to do this interview with you. So, I’m living both styles of life. In just a couple weeks, I have my sophomore formal. And then immediately after that formal dance, I have to leave to go up to Boston to receive an award. So, I’m living both lives at this point. And I’m enjoying it.”
Continue >UPDATE: We are no longer taking new questions for Caroline. But check out the Q&A below—Caroline may have given an answer to something you wanted to ask.
Q: Lloyd Servis I, too, when I was in high school experienced the delight of doing for my own enjoyment projects in physics which I had created myself. I thus share in your enthuiasm and genuine delight, which I think can only come when one opens their creative mind, and does something new and never done before. It is thus is with some understanding that I congratulate you for you most incredible accomplishment. Could you be so kind as to explain to all of us how it was that you managed your most amazing accomplishment, of being the first to see this supernova, on I presume a relatively small telescope and budget, which was overlooked by more “sophisticated astronomers” and their far more advanced equipment???
A: Caroline Well you seen many large observatories have software that looks for the supernovae for them …it can sometimes , but rarely miss certain objects…in my case i have to blink a new and an old picture of one aria of the sky and look for a change…which would be the explosion of a supernova…and i found one that very likely only a very observant eye could see!!!!!!!
Q: Nell
You are an awesome scientist! Its so cool that you are a scientist and you are 15! Also you are a pretty extraordinary singer! :)
A: Caroline Thank You so much! keep looking up!!!!! :-)
Q: Anthony T. Murray If the Big Bang existed, what did it exist within? I mean, it had a core, right? And it contained all the present matter and energy in the Universe, right? But what was outside of it? If there is an inside there has to be an outside, right? Or am I missing something? The Irish Inquisitor
A: Caroline hmmmmmmmmm….well you have quite a good and interesting question there …but unfortunately im only 15 and not quite an astrophysicist yet…let me check with my sources and find you a better answer!!!!!!!
Q: Jessie What is your favorite star in the UNIVERSE? And why do you like space so much?
A: Caroline hmmmmmmmm… Well that’s a toughie …I think Betelgeuse….besides all of the really cool science behind it, it’s also an awesome color, and on top of that it’s in my favorite constellation…Orion…. and on top of that Orion has my favorite deep space object…the ORION NEBULA!!!…Well space is just awesome because things are always changing and u never know what ur gona find out next!
As a preview of coming attractions (her page is premiering on Friday), here’s a look at our next scientist, Caroline Moore, at a very cool event at the White House.
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