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Jean-Luc Margot, Cornell University

Caption: Jean-Luc Margot, assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell University, uses a raw egg (right, still) and a cooked egg (left, spinning) to illustrate how an object's spin state can reveal information about its interior.

Credit: Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography

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