Astronomy programs can provide many advantages to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers and students. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Project ASTRO is one stellar example of this. ASTRO partners professional and amateur astronomers with educators - who visit partner classrooms at least four times during the school...
ALMA finds unexpectedly cold grains in planet-forming disk Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and IRAM telescopes to make the first direct measurement of the temperature of the large dust grains in the outer parts of a planet-forming disk around a young star. By applying a novel technique to observations...
Do you know a K-6 grade teacher who provides excellent mathematics or science instruction to his or her students? Then please consider nominating him or her for one of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). Anyone—researchers, parents or members of the general public—may nominate a K-6 grade teacher...
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) invites scientists to participate in the NRAO Semester 2016B Call for Proposals for the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), Very Large Array (VLA), and Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), High Sensitivity Array (HSA), and Global 3mm VLBI Array (GMVA). The submission deadline for Semester 2016B proposals is...