How scientists are using cosmic radiation to peek inside the pyramids
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How scientists are using cosmic radiation to peek inside the pyramids
By 13 October 2016 Mehdi Tayoubi already knew his ScanPyramids project was on the right track. That was the day Tayoubi and his team met with a committee of Egyptologists to tell them about the small, previously unknown cavity they’d found in the north face of the Pyramid of Khufu, also known as the Great Pyramid of Giza. The ScanPyramids project had begun just 12 months earlier, but was already yielding promising results.
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Then later, in 2017, it struck gold: a huge void was detected deep within the 4,500-year-old pyramid. Although the void’s precise orientation was unknown, Tayoubi’s team was able to confirm that it was about 30 metres long and situated above the Grand Gallery – the corridor linking the Queen’s chamber to the chamber containing Pharaoh Khufu’s sarc
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James Webb Space Telescope: How does it work and what will it see?
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Launch mass: 6,200kg
Expected first images: 2-3 months after launch
Collaborators: NASA, ESA and Canadian Space Agency
Mission duration: 5-10 years
The James Webb Space Telescope’s tech
1: Secondary mirror
2: Primary mirror
3: Sunshield
The size of a tennis court, it protects the telescope from light sources, such as the Sun.
1: ISIM
2: Spacecraft bus
3: Star trackers
4: High gain antenna
What will the JWST see?
The early Universe
The JWST will be able to look back to around 200 million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars in the Universe formed.