Everyone seems pretty happy
Everyone seems pretty happy with how things are working, so most of my time is just spent looking at different x-rays to check out what I can see. They have all of these different set-ups for making the x-rays. I bet space will be a lot more exciting, since I'll actually be looking at black holes and galaxies and stuff instead of some x-rays made in a little device… but it is pretty cool to be able to see this stuff that human eyes can't see at all.
I got some photos of one of the set-ups for making x-rays in the lab. They have a lot of fancy names for the equipment, but this is basically how it works: a bunch of electrons are shot at a bit of metal, and x-rays are produced. These are moved through a vacuum chamber (called a “bell jar”), and through a special target that sends them to me. So in the photo, you can see where the x-rays are made and how they make it down to me so I can see them. In the second picture, you can even see one of the cool images of what I saw!
