UI professor analyzing the components of clouds in space
By Greg Kline
Sunday November 26, 2006
John Dixon
UI Professor Ben McCall uses this ion beam laser spectrometer to study the chemical makeup of interstellar clouds.
Ben McCall can't travel into the vast reaches of space to find out what interstellar clouds are made of and how they work on a molecular level, so he brings the cosmic bodies to his University of Illinois lab.
The clouds' chemistry, anyway.
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