Associated Universities, Inc. sponsors the American Astronomical Society local student outreach event at AAS winter and summer meetings. This event is geared towards underserved populations in middle and high-school. The society welcomes local student groups, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program participants, home schoolers...
Astronomers produced this dramatic new, highly-detailed image of the Crab Nebula by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from the long waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the extremely short waves seen by the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The Crab Nebula,...
Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images. A pair of adolescent protostars had a perilously close encounter that blasted their stellar nursery apart. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have examined the widely scattered debris from this explosive event,...
Below are the winners of the 2017 AUI Trustee Scholarship competition conducted by International Scholarship and Tuition Services, Inc. These students will each receive an award of $3,500 per year to aid in defraying expenses at the college or university of their choice. Kathryn Bradley Kate is a senior at Monticello High School in...