December 10, 2015 The anticipation is contagious. On this crisp, clear night in West Virginia only two types of sounds fill the air as a group of teachers and planetarium managers walk down the road to a 40-foot radio telescope: footsteps and loud, jubilant outbursts of "Can you see the star cluster Pleiades over there?" Those exclamations...
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PING Student Meets President Obama
Nov 12, 2015
PING 2015: Exploring the Cosmos with NRAO student Ava Patino meets with President Obama prior to the October 19th White House Astronomy Night event. PING is in collaboration between the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP http://nsbp.org/), Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) to encourage...
White House Star Party
Oct 21, 2015
AUI and NRAO Attend the White House Astronomy Night The evening of October 19 brought telescopes, astronomers, astronauts, astronomy educators, and more than 200 students to the South Lawn of the White House for a stargazing event with the President. Among those invited to attend were AUI’s STEM Education Development Officer, Tim Spuck,...
Exploring Chile, The Astronomy Capital of the World
Sep 24, 2015
Vivian White, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific travels to Chile and quickly discovers why Northern Chile generally—and the Atacama Desert specifically—has become the "go-to place for some of the world's largest telescopes". Download the article PDF This article was first published in the July 30th issue of Astronomy Beat and is...