Become a Photojournalist of the Milky Way!
Over the years, NASA has released a lot of beautiful space images. Sometimes they're even given cute names based on what they look like, such as a black widow spider, a rose, or a snake. Have you ever looked at them and wished you could find & capture your own unique photos from space?
Remembrance of Things Past
There are many things I remember from late 2003 and early 2004. I remember on December 25, 2003 I was in my office at Caltech during the morning and early afternoon, staging data. I did the same thing on January 1, 2004, after I returned from watching the Rose Parade on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena. This was a routine that carried on for the next few months. Somewhere in this time frame, I pulled and staged the first image from the GLIMPSE survey of our Milky Way galaxy. It was taken on December 23, 2003. I don’t remember when I staged it, but I’m guessing it was sometime in early January. At the time, I had no idea of what was to come.
Discovering Our Universe from the Classroom
How many high school teachers and kids can say that they have presented their astronomy research alongside professional astronomers at an international conference? These folks can! The NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) is sending nearly 75 teachers and students to the winter 2014 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, held in National Harbor, MD, just outside Washington, DC, from Jan 5-9, 2014. NITARP partners small groups of educators with a research astronomer for a year-long authentic research project. The educators and their students from the 2013 class are presenting the results of their work over the past year, and the educators from the 2014 class are meeting their teams and getting started on their projects. Several self-funded NITARP alumni are also returning to the AAS to present work they have done after being intensively involved in the program.
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November 13 From IRAS to Spitzer and Beyond: 30 years of Space-Based Infrared Astronomy |
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August 22 Not a Politician; Not a Carbonated Beverage |
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August 8 NITARP - Summer 2013 |
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June 26 NITARP updates! |
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June 18 Bringing Astronomy to Kids in Crisis |
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March 18 Our Proposal is Written, Now the Research Begins! |
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January 16 My Visit to AAS with NITARP |
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October 15 NITARP 2013 Class of Educators |
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August 24 Happy 9th Birthday, Spitzer! |
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August 15 NITARP for 2013 - Come Play With Us! |
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June 5 There's a Little Black Spot on the Sun Today! |
