Ask an Astronomer Team

Sara Slater

Sara is a former Cornell undergraduate and now a physics graduate student at Harvard University, where she works on cosmology and particle physics.

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Title	Created Date	Hits
What is the photoelectric effect? Why can't multiple low-frequency photons free an electron? (Intermediate)	Jun 05	52335
What is the SU(3) quark model? (Intermediate)	Jan 05	49672
What happens to spacetime inside a black hole? (Intermediate)	Jan 05	124443
How does melting a material reset its radioactive clock? (Intermediate)	Sep 04	49715
Where did the matter in the universe come from? (Intermediate)	Jul 04	198152
How do we know the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy? (Intermediate)	Jun 04	129673
What causes gamma ray bursts? (Intermediate)	Jan 04	64313
Can superheavy elements (such as Z=116 or 118) be formed in a supernova? Can we observe them? (Advanced)	Jan 04	66886
What do a galaxy's colors mean? Are they its true colors? (Intermediate)	Aug 03	175411
How does a star take mass from another star? (Intermediate)	Aug 03	50946
What is our galaxy's halo made of, and how was it formed? (Intermediate)	Aug 03	69224
Did I see the Aurora Borealis as a child? (Beginner)	Jul 03	67101
Does the Coriolis force determine which way my toilet drains? Does it affect black holes? (Beginner)	Apr 03	67308
What would happen to us if the sun went out for an hour? (Beginner)	Apr 03	123592
What is "nothing", from a scientific point of view? (Beginner)	Apr 03	53605
Do similar laws of physics throughout the Universe imply that all life must be like life on Earth? (Beginner)	Apr 03	57267
Can I see a quasar? (Intermediate)	Mar 03	61617
Why do planets have elliptical orbits? (Beginner)	Feb 03	315139