This cartoons shows how high energy photons can prevent protons and electrons from sticking together to form neutral Hydrogen.
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See below for cartoons or other science-related artwork that I've made for talks or other outreach projects. Note that the thumbnails are distorted or don't all show the full image.
You're welcome to use any of these images, but please credit me if you do. I can provide higher resolution versions of several of the images and individual frames of gifs upon request. For many of the digital illustrations, I'm also happy to provide versions with the image text in other languages, if given a translation and enough notice.
Rotation curve plot
Yo-yo rotation curves
I used these cartoons in conjunction with a live demonstration using a real yo-yo to talk about centripetal force and to explain how galaxy rotation curves can tell us about dark matter.
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Steps to Vega Darkbite
I’ve drawn a couple of cartoons for Darkbites, a social media based outreach effort through the Dark Energy Survey. They appeared on DES social media accounts accompanied by text describing a fun science fact. Darkbites website
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Recombination
This animation was used to talk about recombination. When the universe is ionized light interacts strongly with them and so can’t travel very far without scattering off a charged particle. Once the protons and electrons combine to form neutral Hydrogen atoms, the light is able travel in a straight line,...
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