An image of the Orion Nebula taken from the Strawbridge Observatory during Professor Karen Masters' "Advanced Topics: Observational Astronomy" class. Photo: David Zegeye '19.
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Studying pulsars and black holes that are hundreds of light years away, the six Bi-Co students working in Professor Andrea Lommen’s lab this summer didn’t need to be on campus in the same room to conduct their groundbreaking research.