• Question: What is the most exciting project you have ever worked on?

    Asked by isabelkwilkinson to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Shawn Domagal-Goldman

      Shawn Domagal-Goldman answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      So far, FameLab! I’ve been working on a competition in the US (started in the UK!) that gets scientists to talk for 3 minutes, and then get judged on stage by a panel – sort of like “Britian’s Got Talent.” It’s been loads of fun, and the scientists have been pretty great at it!

      In the future I hope to work on a telescope that could find life around another planet. That would be the most exciting thing I could see myself ever working on. But it’s not going to happen for years… that’s good news for you, because by then you’ll be done with school and you could work on it, too! 😀

    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Right now I’m working on a project that will find out how much dust there is around nearby stars, so kind of like other versions of the Asteroid belt. This is really important, since when we go to try finding Earth-like planets in the future the dust levels might be so high that we can’t see the planets. To know how we need to design the Earth-finding missions we need to know the dust levels, so I find working on that pretty exciting!
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