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Rusty Schweickart's new planetary defense blog posted!
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | by David Eicher
More progress on the Asteroid Day front: Please check out Rusty Schweickart’s new planetary defense blog posted today. Here is a great story about what you can do to help!
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URGENT: Thirty Meter Telescope needs your help!
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 | by David Eicher
If you haven't heard, there is an ongoing situation with the building of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea. Protests have now endangered the project and threaten its existence. If you care about science, PLEASE GO TO THIS SURVEY AND LET Y...
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Lego Ninjas create Dual-head Teaching Telescope
Friday, April 10, 2015 | by Celestron
Looking to improve astronomy in the classroom, the Lego Ninjas submitted their prototype for a dual-head teaching telescope to the FLL Global Innovation competition. According to these students, the challenge teachers face with traditional telescopes...
C2E2 hears about Pluto
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
The fifth annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is over. It began Friday, April 24 and concluded Sunday, April 26. I was there as media, representing Astronomy magazine, for the fourth straight year. And, oh, was it fun! The conventio...
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Reorganized Astronomy Foundation holds annual meeting
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | by David Eicher
The Astronomy Foundation, the outreach group formed by telescope executives in 2010, has had a long year of dormancy. Seeking 501(c)3 nonprofit status, the group has received that designation now and recently held its annual board meeting in conjunct...
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Starmus Festival announced for summer 2016 in Tenerife
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 | by David Eicher
This morning in London, Garik Israelian, Brian May, Stephen Hawking, and Carlos Alonso announced the next Starmus Festival, which will take place June 27–July 2, 2016, in Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The conference will pay tri...
Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015 | by David Eicher
So much has happened in the last few days that I am still desperately trying to catch up after my return from New York. One of the great events I had the pleasure to attend was the annual Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference (NEAIC), a specialized pair...
Alexei Leonov to speak in London on May 21
Monday, April 27, 2015 | by David Eicher
The legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, will give a rare public talk in London on May 21, 2015. The venue will be the IMAX Theatre at the great Science Museum in London, just south of Hyde Park. Here is press informat...
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Odyssey of Knowledge set for tomorrow in Athens
Friday, April 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
THE ODYSSEY OF KNOWLEDGE 1st International Conference of Science and ArtsCommemorative Tribute:Hypatia from Alexandria (A.D. 370-415) SATURDAY, APRIL 25th AUDITORIUM "ATHINA 9.84" TECHNOPOLIS OF MUNICIPALITY OF ATHENSConference Theme"H...
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Director Grigorij Richters launches 51 Degrees North feature film Kickstarter campaign
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | by David Eicher
51 Degrees North is a new feature film project supported by the Asteroid Day Foundation and Films United. A 30-day Kickstarter campaign will launch today, Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, to support the film’s official release on June 30, 2015. ...
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Northeast Astronomy Forum, part two
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | by David Eicher
I spent April 9–20 in the New York City area. I spoke at the New York/New Jersey Mineral Show, spent a few days vacationing in the city, and then closed out the trip with covering the annual Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference and Northeast Astr...
Celebrate Earth Day with NASA
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
At the congressional budget hearing on April 16, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden had to repeatedly defend his organization’s mission to perform cutting-edge science not just in aeronautics and space exploration, as the agency’s name mak...
I am headed back to C2E2
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
The fifth annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) starts Friday, April 24 and runs through Sunday, April 26. I’ll be there as a member of the media for the fourth straight year. The convention, which, in addition to comics, spans ...
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Northeast Astronomy Forum, part one
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | by David Eicher
Wow. I am utterly exhausted after spending April 9–20 in the New York City area. I spoke at the New York/New Jersey Mineral Show, spent a few days vacationing in the city, and then closed out the trip with covering the annual Northeast Astro-Im...
MESSENGER's about to crash into Mercury, and the last views from its death spiral are amazing
Monday, April 20, 2015 | by Eric Betz
The first spacecraft to orbit the innermost planet is running out of fuel and days away from plunging to its demise at an incredible 8,750 mph (14,080 km/h). Over the past several months, NASA has orchestrated a series of carefully planned maneuvers ...
New project explores humanity's severed link with the night sky
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 | by Eric Betz
A few weeks ago, I sat on a park bench overlooking the Port of Milwaukee hoping to glimpse the aurorae borealis lighting up much of the Northern Hemisphere. The horizon was fuzzy, but a 30-second exposure image revealed a distinct green band arcing o...
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Milky Way selfie
The photographer reported that he shot this selfie to capture the Milky Way but was delighted to discover that a brilliant meteor passed through the frame during the exposure. (Canon 6D DSLR, Tokino 16-28mm lens set at 16mm and f/2.8, ISO 3200, 20-second exposure, taken April 25, 2015, at 5:26 a.m. CDT)
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