Student Captures Cosmic Radiation on Film by Sending Negative to Space

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  • Tom Liggett wanted to see how analog film would capture the invisible energy of the Universe.
  • There was no camera or lens, just a piece of film duct-taped inside a plastic bag.
  • A chunk of the image was caused by UVC radiation, which exists above the ozone layer.
  • The rest of it consists of “cosmic radiation and muons from black holes, billions of light-years away” The payload with the exposed film landed 50 miles away from the launch site.
HELIOS II by Tom Liggett. Most of the colors captured here were caused by cosmic radiation that came from the distant Universe.

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