It’s there one moment and gone the next—a pinpoint of light flickering in the night sky. To stargazers, it might seem like nothing more than a passing airplane or a shooting star. But to Sarah Chastain, a physics graduate student at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) and a research assistant in Associate Professor of Physics Alexander van der Horst’s astrophysics lab, that bright dot isn’t just a curiosity. It may be one of the most extraordinary events in the universe.
Astrophysics Student Impacts Earth and Sky
November 9, 2022
Physics student Sarah Chastain’s research involves the MeerKAT Radio Telescope in South Africa which is composed of 64 dishes. (Photo: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)