Harish Khandrika stands next to a poster of his award-winning
science fair project, which used data from NASA's RXTE
spacecraft to study the remains from a star explosion. Click on
image for full size Courtesy of NASA Student Astronomer Reaches
for Exploded Stars News story originally written on July 22,
2002 Student astronomer Harish Khandrika studies the universe!
He is a high school student from California who has been
learning all about exploded stars, called supernovae, with Dr.
Richard Rothschild at the University of California, San Diego.
Harish studied a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A to find
out how much radioactive titanium was there. Harish found that
the supernova produced a huge amount of radioactive titanium!
Harish loves to study the universe, so last summer he searched
for people who could help him follow his interest. Harish found
Dr. Richard Rothschild who suggested he look at Cassiopeia A and
his research project was born! Harish told people about his
project at science fairs and won