For physicist Mark Hanhardt, the stunning photos of the early universe being returned to Earth by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are a bit like turning a cell phone camera on ourselves.| Sanford Underground Research Facility
Daniel Robertson, a research professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame (left), and Mark Hanhardt, an experiment support scientist and Ph.D. candidate at South Dakota Mines, pose on either side of the glowing plasma tube at the heart of CASPAR. | Sanford Underground Research Facility
ISNAP is an accelerator-based laboratory at the Univ. of Notre Dame funded by the National Science Foundation, pursuing a broad program in low-energy nuclear physics.| Institute for Structure and Nuclear Astrophysics