House Set of Magical Astronomy: 07 The Far Side of the Moon
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Narek Baghosian and Florian Storz, members of the Astronomy Club at Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences in Granada Hills, have designed a patch that will be carried on a privately funded flight to the International Space Station.
The patch was the winning entry in a contest sponsored by the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, which also selects student-devised research projects to carry into space.
The Astronomy Club meets Wednesdays, devising scientific experiments that could be conducted during deep-space missions within the future Orion program or future missions to Mars. The club's advisers are teachers Angel Ireys, Doug Pischell and James Emley.
The SSEP is a partnership between the National Center for Earth and Science Science Education and NanoRacks LLC.
Members of the Astronomy Club at the the Valley Academy of Arts and Science run by teachers Angel Ireys, Doug Pischell and James Emley.
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Astronomy Cast, Ep. 289: Cherenkov Radiation
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The Fellow Travellers peform "Astronomy" by Chris Stamey
From a 2012 first performance by the Fellow Travellers, a shape-shifting North Carolina-based ensemble that first came together for the US and European "Big Star #39;s Third" concerts. Featuring the singing (and playing) of Django Haskins, Brett Harris, Skylar Gudasz, and Matt McMichaels, as well as Mitch Easter (electric guitar), Chris Stamey (ac gtr and bass), Charles Cleaver (keyboards), Tony Stiglitz (percussion, mounted drums), Katie Wyatt (viola), and Josh Starmer (cello). Filmed and Edited by Rachel Hazlett of Arcate Media. Post-production audio by Chris Stamey.
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this is the official teaser of the astronomy club, VNIT. brodcasted at RAMAN SCIENCE Centre NAGPUR b4 the club #39;s mega event.. director liked it... hope u like it .. 🙂 edited by me... 🙂
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Run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, in association with Sky at Night Magazine, the competition is an international search for images of the cosmos, from photographs of galaxies millions of light years away, to dramatic images of the night sky taken closer to home.
Entrants have until 13 June to submit their entries, with the winning images due to be showcased in a free exhibition at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, from 19 September to 23 February 2014.
There are four main categories in the competition Earth and Space, Our Solar System, Deep Space and Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year taken by photographers under the age of 16. There are also three special prizes: People and Space, Best Newcomer and Robotic Scope, awarded to the best photograph taken using a computer-controlled telescope.
Photographers can enter the competition online by visiting http://www.rmg.co.uk/astrophoto and may each submit up to five images. The overall winner will receive 1500, with category winners each receiving 500. There are also runner-up cash prizes and all winning entries will receive a one-year subscription to Sky at Night Magazine.
In a press statement, competition judge and Sky at Night Magazine editor Chris Bramley, says: The fantastic standard of entries last year showed that you don't need expensive equipment or decades of experience to take stunning astrophotos. I'm really looking forward to seeing what new astro-imagers submit in 2013.
Also on the judging panel this year isspace scientist and TV presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and science and astronomy writer Will Gater,among many others.
The winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2013 will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Observatory on 18 September.
To view the entries online, visit: http://www.flickr.com/groups/astrophoto.
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Scientists who have helped further our understanding of cosmic phenomena from gamma-ray pulsars to galaxy formation have been awarded top prizes from the American Astronomical Society. The following are recipients of the 2013 awards, announced by AAS this week:
Kenneth C. Freeman, an Australian National University astronomer who has studied the structure and evolution of galaxies, won the AAS's top award, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, for a "lifetime of seminal contributions" in the field.
"Through his many PhD students and his generous interactions with countless colleagues, his influence on galactic and extragalactic astronomy has extended far beyond his own research," AAS officials said of Freeman.
Jason Kalirai, of the Space Telescope Science Institute, was honored for his work in stellar and galactic astrophysics. Among other achievements, he devised new methods to measure the age of the Milky Way galaxy using white dwarf stars and described the fraction of mass that stars lose over their lives. Kalirai, who is 34, received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize for outstanding achievement in observational research by an early-career astronomer.
"Being a professional astronomer is the most rewarding profession in the world," Kalirai said in a statement. "I get to use some of the most advanced tools that humans have ever created to address the universes biggest mysteries. It doesnt get cooler than that!"
Eiichiro Komatsu, of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, was awarded the Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. Komatsu's 2011 report that placed tight new constraints on the standard cosmological model was the most highly cited astronomy paper last year, according to AAS.
For his theoretical work on how massive stars are formed, Mark Krumholz, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, was given the Helen B. Warner Prize for a significant contribution to astronomy by an early-career scientist.
The Annie Jump Cannon Award for outstanding research and promise for future research by a woman went to Sarah Dodson-Robinson, who studies the formation of planetary systems and teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
Caltech's Keith Matthews was recognized with the Joseph Weber Award for instrumentation for his achievements in infrared astronomy at the Palomar and Keck observatories. Among other feats over his career, Matthews' NIRC2 camera in the Keck 2 telescope allowed scientists to characterize supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.
The Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics for exceptional work by mid-career astronomers went to Rutgers University's Rachel Somerville for her scholarship on galaxy formation and evolution.
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A new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) will help improve future information discovery for researchers.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) collaborated on the new thesaurus, making it a gift to the American Astronomical Society (AAS).
AAS will be making the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful.
Further development of the thesaurus will be done by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA). The collaborative effect by these institutions will help to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.
Adopting the UAT within the ADS will result better linking with the astronomer research journal articles through a common vocabulary, helping to improve the accuracy of information discovery.
Creating the UAT is a result of the combination of two separate initiatives to develop thesauri as part of semantic enrichment projects by AIP and IOP.
Thousands of resources are being published each year in the field of astronomy, and these kinds of tools can be vital for researchers to continue finding relevant information quickly and helping to improve the discoverability of research.
Access Innovations Inc, a privately held company that specializes in information management and database creation products, is working to combine the thesauri.
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The University of Washington astronomy department is readying a traveling planetarium to take to schools for outreach -- and collaboration -- in Seattle and beyond.
It may look like a carnival bouncy house or an inflatable igloo, but the portable planetarium is in fact an innovative tool for teaching and spreading interest in astronomy.
The circular fabric dome, made by GoDome, is about 10 feet tall and 20 feet across -- big enough to hold a classroom of young astronomers -- and stays upright with the help of a high-powered fan.
It's a fully functional planetarium and then some, revealing the cosmos in multiple wavelengths and frequencies and over time, with three-dimensional simulations of the movement of planets, stars and galaxies, all powered by a laptop computer and Microsoft's freely downloadable Worldwide Telescope software.
The planetarium is the creation of a team of UW students and faculty originally led by post-doctoral researcher John Wisniewski, who has taken a faculty post at the University of Oklahoma. The team continues with doctoral student Phil Rosenfield as principal investigator. Joining him in the work are astronomy lecturer Oliver Fraser, undergraduate Justin Gailey and fellow doctoral student Nell Byler.
Rosenfield said recent department surveys show that while many students bus in to visit the UW planetarium, few are from the Seattle area. So the team decided to bring astronomy to the schools instead of the other way around.
This traveling planetarium will be more interactive than most.
"We are all working on curriculum for the students to create their own shows and use our planetarium like a presentation tool," Rosenfield said. The team is looking to Gailey and future undergraduates to keep the project going when Rosenfield finishes his degree.
Gailey helped develop the planetarium's mirror-based optics and wrote curriculum for its use in a high school setting.
"You essentially make little stops," Gailey said. "You can say, I want to look at this planet and you can pause the tour and talk about it, then move on and it will pan to the next subject."
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Tyrnaround - Astronomy Domine
Great version of the classic Pink Floyd song.
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Pat and Stan - Astronomy (short)
Another hilarious sketch with Pat and Stan!
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Montrell teaching me astronomy
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THE Australian behind the field of galactic archaeology has been awarded the American Astronomical Society's top prize for a lifetime of achievement.
Ken Freeman changed the course of astronomy when he explained dark matter to the world in a paper in 1970 that revealed what we can see of galaxies - the stars, gas and dust - is only a small fraction of their mass.
The rest is invisible dark matter, said his paper.
Professor Freeman from the Australian National University has now been awarded the prestigious Henry Norris Russell Lectureship for a lifetime of seminal contributions to astronomy.
"Many of my old friends, mentors and colleagues are on the list of past recipients of this prize, and it is a great pleasure to be listed with them," he said in a statement on Thursday.
Prof Freeman won the Prime Minister's Prize for Science last year for his work.
He is a founder of the field of galactic archaeology, or research determining the age and movement of stars in our galaxy by their chemical composition.
It was born out of discussions he began in the 1980s with a post-doctoral fellow, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, who is now a professor at University of Sydney.
Most stars in galaxies are formed in groups of between 10,000 and a million stars.
After losing mass they eventually wander off and, after three or four galactic rotations of about 200 million years each, they are spread far and wide throughout the galaxy.
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Contact: Karen Watts karen.watts@iop.org 01-179-301-110 Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.
The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful. Further development of the UAT will be undertaken by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.
Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information discovery.
The creation of the UAT is a result of the combination of two separate initiatives to develop thesauri as part of semantic enrichment projects by AIP and IOP. The donation of this useful tool to the AAS will help expose relationships within content across multiple publishers and service providers for the benefit of the community as a whole.
The thesaurus will be used in semantic technologies to enable researchers to execute faster, more accurate information searches and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. With many thousands of resources being published each year in the field of astronomy, these kinds of tools are vital to ensure that researchers continue to be able to find relevant information quickly and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. This applies as much to data, web services and other resources, as it does to the bibliographic resources to which thesauri have traditionally been applied.
The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access Innovations Inc, a privately held company that specializes in information management and database creation products and services.
Chris Biemesderfer, Director of Publishing at AAS said of the gift "It's both generous and foresighted for AIP and IOP to donate this work to the community, at a time when so much attention is focused on enabling semantic capabilities in scholarly research and communication. The AAS is grateful to the publishers for the timely contribution. It's exciting for the development team to receive a product that is as well thought through as this thesaurus, and the Society is proud to support the research community through partnerships like the UAT."
Mark Cassar, Publisher at AIP said, "Information discovery and retrieval are essential to advance research in all the physical sciences. This thesaurus will give astronomers and astrophysicists a more comprehensive language tool to improve data searches across disciplines. AIP is pleased to play a role in this collaboration and looks forward to seeing the benefits of UAT within the research community."
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The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and IOP Publishing (IOP) have jointly announced the gift of a new astronomy thesaurus called the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) that will help improve future information discovery for researchers.
The AAS will make the UAT freely available for development and use within the astronomy community, while ensuring the thesaurus remains relevant and useful. Further development of the UAT will be undertaken by the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in collaboration with the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) to enhance and extend the thesaurus to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the astronomy community.
Adoption of the thesaurus within the ADS will result in better linking with the majority of astronomy research journal articles through a common vocabulary, thereby greatly improving the accuracy of information discovery.
The creation of the UAT is a result of the combination of two separate initiatives to develop thesauri as part of semantic enrichment projects by AIP and IOP. The donation of this useful tool to the AAS will help expose relationships within content across multiple publishers and service providers for the benefit of the community as a whole.
The thesaurus will be used in semantic technologies to enable researchers to execute faster, more accurate information searches and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. With many thousands of resources being published each year in the field of astronomy, these kinds of tools are vital to ensure that researchers continue to be able to find relevant information quickly and ultimately improve the discoverability of research. This applies as much to data, web services and other resources, as it does to the bibliographic resources to which thesauri have traditionally been applied.
The work to combine the thesauri has been carried out by Access Innovations Inc., a privately held company that specializes in information management and database creation products and services.
Chris Biemesderfer, Director of Publishing at AAS, said of the gift "It's both generous and foresighted for AIP and IOP to donate this work to the community, at a time when so much attention is focused on enabling semantic capabilities in scholarly research and communication. The AAS is grateful to the publishers for the timely contribution. It's exciting for the development team to receive a product that is as well thought through as this thesaurus, and the Society is proud to support the research community through partnerships like the UAT."
Mark Cassar, Publisher at AIP, said, "Information discovery and retrieval are essential to advance research in all the physical sciences. This thesaurus will give astronomers and astrophysicists a more comprehensive language tool to improve data searches across disciplines. AIP is pleased to play a role in this collaboration and looks forward to seeing the benefits of UAT within the research community."
Graham McCann, Head of Product Management and Innovation at IOP, said, "This is an exciting and ambitious collaboration that will have real long-term benefits for researchers. IOP's investment in semantic enrichment is a great example of how publishers serve the scientific community by underpinning the scholarly communications process using the very latest technologies."
Contact: Karen Watts Public Relations Manager, IOP Publishing +44 (0)117 930 1110 karen.watts@iop.org.
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Year 11 GCSE Astronomy Project - Wonders of the Solar System - Part 1
A Wellington School Production of a Brian Cox inspired Astronomy TV Show! Hope you enjoy, follow us on Twitter at @scott_cowie10, @JayJackson123 and @Georgedmunson! Like Comment Subscribe and all the rest of it.. No copyright intended!
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A Wellington School Production of a Brian Cox inspired Astronomy TV Show! Hope you enjoy, follow us on Twitter at @scott_cowie10, @JayJackson123 and @Georgedmunson! Like Comment Subscribe and all the rest of it.. No copyright intended!
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