Come out to the first of many star party events hosted by a new partnership between Austin Astronomical Society and Pedernales Falls State Park. This one has the added attraction of having activities brought to you by the Texas Night Sky Festival® Team. When: Saturday, April 7th Where: 2585 Park Rd 6026, Johnson City,…
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In This Week in the Sky, Orion, the Hunter: Imagine yourself living many, many years ago in a time when there was no electricity. When night fell, you did not have lights to light up your home like we do today. Imagine yourself cooking on an open fire outside, and when the fire went…
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I was proud to be part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference this past Saturday. Family Science Day was filled with interactive booths from many scientific disciplines, some of the most popular being freezing popcorn with liquid nitrogen (and getting to eat it!) and seeing a tiny living space made out…
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What a fun night last night at the Will Hampton Branch Library! Their ‘Reading the Stars’ event was filled with space themed cookies, hot cocoa, a reading of “Cassandra and the Night Sky” with my mom- the illustrator- joining the event, astronomers from the Austin Astronomical Society, and the Austin Nature and Science Center‘s Starlab.…
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This past June, I was accepted to the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program and had the amazing opportunity to travel to Chile to learn about the astronomical research being done there. Our group of 9 consisted of astronomy writers, amateur astronomers, astrophotographers, science teachers, astronomy educators and planetarium professionals from across the United States…
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What do palentologists collect? Fossils What do archeologists collect? Artifacts What do geologists collect? Rocks and Minerals What do astronomers collect? Light! What instrument do astronomers use to collect that light? Telescopes. This past June, I was accepted to the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassador Program and had the amazing opportunity to travel to Chile to…
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Today was a day when memories were made. Memories that will last a lifetime. From getting into the car and stopping to write on the windows to christen it “the eclipse bus” to figuring out where we will go for clear skies after learning about the best weather web sites from a meteorologist at…
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Thanks to Ken Miller, Ken Miller of the GOTO planetarium company, and formerly of Bishop Museum in Hawaii, here is a better way to project the sun and view it indirectly! Cover a hand mirror with paper. Cut out a dime-sized hole in the paper. Stick the mirror into a lump of clay or bucket of…
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It was exciting to be on Fox 7 today to talk about the upcoming eclipse. I love using models to teach astronomical concepts, so I showed a relative size of the earth and the moon. In teaching astronomy, modeling really helps us better understand the phenomena going on above our heads and under our feet.…
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