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The Chicago astronomer and Astronomy magazine!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
Joe Guzman, who is out there doing astronomy outreach all over the city of Chicago, well known as the Chicago Astronomer, sent me this last week:“The Chicago Astronomer Astro Club uses Astronomy magazine as part of our class lessons. We will co...
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PlutoTown, USA: Where Pluto is, and always will be, a planet
Thursday, June 25, 2015 | by Kevin Schindler, Lowell Observatory
Karma Sushi restaurant in downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, features a popular sushi roll — known simply as the Pluto Roll — stuffed with tempura lobster, snow crab, cream cheese, and cucumber and topped with a medley of sumptuous sauces and s...
Registration opens for Starmus, sign up today!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
You can now register for next year’s Starmus Festival in the Canary Islands, the premier science festival in the world. Next year’s event will honor Stephen Hawking and will be titled “Beyond the Horizon: Tribute to Stephen Hawking....
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...
Join me in signing the Asteroid Day declaration!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 | by David Eicher
The first Asteroid Day is now six days away! Please join me in signing the 100x declaration. Help to expand our inventory of asteroids in the inner solar system by a factor of 100. Help to take care of Earth’s future! You can sign the declarati...
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Oh Pluto! You must see this video!
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 | by David Eicher
Kudos to Craig Werth and Christine Lavin for producing this song and great video! Now Pluto has its own song! (Please visit the site to view this video) Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicherstar.
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Uwingu offers out-of-this-world Father's Day gift idea
Friday, June 19, 2015 | by Karri Ferron
Posted on behalf of the Uwingu team; Astronomy magazine is a proud partner of this effort to raise funding for space scienceNeed a last-minute present for dad? Space company Uwingu offers a great gift for Father’s Day with place names on its Ma...
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A closer look at PixInsight
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
Image contributor Ron Brecher, whose great shots have appeared on this website as well as in Astronomy magazine, has sent in a guest blog that’s a review of a product he’s quite fond of. We don’t publish software reviews in the maga...
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Chris Eicher on Brett Favre, alchemy, and the magic of copper
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by David Eicher
My son, Chris Eicher, is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is starting a series of pro-science, anti-pseudoscience blogs, and I hope that you will read them and support him in his interest. We know that the world is aw...
10 Nobel Prize winners to participate in Starmus 3
Thursday, June 18, 2015 | by David Eicher
PRESS RELEASE• "Beyond the horizon – Tribute to Stephen Hawking" will be the theme of the third Starmus Festival, which will pay homage to the most famous British astrophysicist of all time and confirm the status of Starmus as the world...
Arsonist sets 9 spot fires near historic Lowell Observatory
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by Eric Betz
An unknown arsonist set nine spot fires within sight of Lowell Observatory on Wednesday and sent staff scrambling to put the blazes out with garden equipment, according to the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff.The paper reports that the observatory&rsqu...
T minus 800 days until the eclipse
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by Michael Bakich
A few days ago I realized that today — June 12, 2015 — is a milestone of sorts: 800 days until the big event. Are you excited yet? Probably. What I mean by that is that you’re reading a blog dedicated to the August 21, 2017, total ...
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Latest "Real Reality Show"
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by David Eicher
The latest Real Reality Show episode is up and deals with the realities of dark matter. Check it out here.Enjoy! Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicherstar.
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Rusty Schweickart's audio interview now online
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by David Eicher
I know all of you are familiar with the great Rusty Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut, planetary defense champion, and one of the great promoters of science education over the past generation. My audio interview with Rusty for the “Superstars of ...
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Making exoplanet news right here at Astronomy
Friday, June 12, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
Most days, I get to report about other scientists’ discoveries. But today, I’ll toot my own horn a bit. I’ve been here at Astronomy for six months now. But before that, I was a graduate student researching exoplanets, worlds beyond...
Chris Eicher's Real Science blogs
Thursday, June 11, 2015 | by David Eicher
My son, Chris Eicher, is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is starting a series of pro-science, anti-pseudoscience blogs, and I hope that you will read them and support him in his interest. We know that the world is aw...
MORE ABOUT: DAVID J. EICHER
Great photos from the World Science Festival
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 | by David Eicher
For those of you who did not attend the World Science Festival in New York two weeks ago, you really missed something.I've previously reported on the star party, all the talks and activities, and the great opening dramatic play.Now, courtesy of photo...
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The Snake Nebula
The Snake Nebula (Barnard 72) is a curving dark nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent-bearer. The cold gas and dust within this object block the light from stars that lie farther away. (4-inch Takahashi FSQ-106EDX refractor, SBIG STT-8300M CCD camera, LRGB image with exposures of 6, 2, 2, and 2 hours, respectively)
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