Out of This World Acronyms
This week is dedicated to the creative and elaborate acronym-ing of space research.
Monday
BICEP = Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization
Tuesday
WISEASS = Weizmann Institute of Science Experimental Astrophysics Spectroscopy System
Wednesday
SMUDGES = Systematic Multiwavelength Unbiased catalog of Dwarf Galaxies and Evolution of Structure
Thursday
BOOMERanG = Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics
Friday
FLAMINGOS = FLoridA Multi-object Imaging Near-infrared Grism Observational Spectrometer
Saturday
TANGOinPARIS = Testing Astroparticle with the New Gev/tev Observations Positrons And electRons : Identifying the Sources (Wow!)