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World Science Festival Stargaze in New York
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 | by David Eicher
What a terrific few days a number of us had in New York last week celebrating the World Science Festival, one of the great science events, that drew something like a quarter-million science enthusiasts to the Big Apple. Many events took place —...
The Kuiper Belt by any other name is just as cool
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 | by Eric Betz
History is most often told via trivia. Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. The Wright Brothers were the first to fly an airplane. And Edwin Hubble realized our universe was expanding. But none of those things are perfectly true. Science ...
Greetings from the World Science Festival Star Party!
Monday, June 1, 2015 | by David Eicher
Celestron just sponsored a really big event in New York City, with several thousand people enjoying the night sky with Astronomy, Discover, Scistarter, and the Science Cheerleaders. It was a featured part of the World Science Festival that took place...
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...
A word on Starmus from Stephen Hawking
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | by David Eicher
From Professor Hawking:I’m touched and honored that the third STARMUS in Tenerife, June 27 to July 2, 2016, is titled “Beyond the Horizon: A Tribute to Stephen Hawking.” — SHFollow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/d...
Gearing up for the World Science Festival
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | by David Eicher
Tomorrow morning I’ll leave for New York (once again!), this time to go to the World Science Festival. Astronomy and Discover magazines will be partnering with Scistarter, the citizen science group headed by Darlene Cavalier (who is also behind...
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Tomorrowland is a film every future scientist should see
Friday, May 22, 2015 | by Eric Betz
NASA’s man in Hollywood says the latest rash of sci-fi films show the agency still holds sway with young minds more than half a century after the launch of the Space Age. “The future can be scary,” Frank Walker (played by George ...
A thought from my latest book ...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 | by David Eicher
This will be published with about another 100,000 words in The New Cosmos: Answering Astronomy’s Big Questions, to be published by Cambridge University Press this coming October.Enjoy!Follow David J. Eicher on Twitter: www.twitter.com/deicher...
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Sir Harold Kroto and David Eicher join Starmus Festival board
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 | by David Eicher
Tenerife, Canary Islands, May 20, 2015: Garik Israelian, director of the Starmus Festival, the international celebration of astronomy, allied sciences, music, and the arts, today announces two additions to the Starmus Festival board of directors. Bot...
Get ready for Asteroid Day festivities in London
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 | by David Eicher
The first ever Asteroid Day will raise awareness for near-Earth asteroid research, highlighting the danger space rocks pose to us. The commemoration will take place June 30, 2015, on the 107th anniversary of the Tunguska event, when an asteroid or co...
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New Eicher book will deliver state of the cosmos message
Monday, May 11, 2015 | by David Eicher
Last year, I spent much of my free time cloistered in my room cranking away on a new book about astrophysics, planetary science, and cosmology. You see, more than 30 years ago I was incredibly inspired by Cosmos, the TV series and book, and got to kn...
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Discovery Science joins Asteroid Day project
Monday, May 11, 2015 | by David Eicher
Great news!Please see the following release . . .DISCOVERY SCIENCE LAUNCHES “COUNTDOWN TO ASTEROID DAY” Do scientists know when an asteroid will strike? How much warning will you get if an asteroid is headed for your city? How frequently...
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Tales from a budding night sky photographer
Monday, May 11, 2015 | by Korey Haynes
Please welcome guest blogger Josh Thum. I had the pleasure of meeting Josh at a Yerkes Observatory star party a few weeks ago and was hugely impressed by the night sky photos he showed me, especially for someone still in high school. I thought you mi...
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Astronomy Night on the National Mall 2015
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 | by David Eicher
Don Lubowich of Hofstra University writes about his plans for the 2015 rendition of a popular Washington, D.C. event: Astronomy Night on the National Mall. If you are in the Washington area in mid-June, I urge you to join the large group of instituti...
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Galileoscope launches IYL 2015 programs
Monday, May 4, 2015 | by David Eicher
My good friend Rick Fienberg is a man of many talents. He is press officer and director of communications for the American Astronomical Society. He is former editor-in-chief of Sky & Telescope magazine. He is also involved with the educational ou...
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A short time ago in a state far, far away ...
Monday, May 4, 2015 | by Karri Ferron
Happy Star Wars Day! Yes, Astronomy magazine is a brand based in science, not science fiction, but we like to embrace the sci-fi side of things every once in a while in our offices, especially as science fiction has inspired many of us and our contri...
A Starmus video for your weekend enjoyment
Friday, May 1, 2015 | by David Eicher
This week saw the announcement of the 2016 Starmus Festival slated for June of next year in Tenerife. While you ponder travel plans for this incredible event, a tribute to Stephen Hawking, here’s a video of highlights from the 2014 Starmus to w...
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The North America and Pelican nebulae
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000) pairs with the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) in a region of the constellation Cygnus the Swan near the bright star Deneb. Each is a huge emission nebula, glowing because atoms of hydrogen absorb ultraviolet radiation from nearby stars and re-emit it with a characteristically red hue. (4-inch Takahashi FSQ-106N refractor, Canon EOS 450D DSLR, ISO 800, 9 hours and 39 minutes of exposures for the North America Nebula and 9 hours and 20 minutes of exposures for the Pelican Nebula)
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