A professor of Physics and Astronomy, Jayanne English works with images captured through the telescope. Pictures of the sky that can be admired in popular science magazines are a bridge between the astronomer and the audience, as they bring a general idea of what the sky looks like and encourage people to know more. these images  taken with radio telescopes are colored artificially to distinguish the variety of gases and to distinguish their motion. often very appealing and meaningful to the scientist, they mislead the audience with non-standard and discipline specific color-coding, and other symbols that sometimes end up contradicting common sense intuitions. Visual literacy, knowledge of techniques of composition and color harmony as well as team work are often necessary to construct those award winning images we find in popular science magazines.
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If English deals with the super-big and super-far, Boustany has to wrestle with the small, complex and in motion.
cells have pathways. In order to be healthy they have to reach a certain equilibrium. they have to count a certain number of deaths. too much  death is bad. But dying too little is a bad sign too.
fro the sake of research, it is possible to tell why and how cells die (through nechrosis, autophagy, or apoptosis) from the  way mytochondria mutate during this process. While Optical microscopes can hardly catch these transformations, Electromicroscopy allows to view one stage of the process, but it fails to explore it in its entirety.In fact once a cell is isolated and stained for viewing, is already dead or can no longer be utilized.
Thus, Boustany and her team have developed  an alternative technique that enable the use of a light microscope to determine the transformation of the cell's morphology. this technique is based on optical scatter imaging.