The Astronomy Genealogy Project Is Ten Years Old: Here Are Ten Ways You Can Use It — The Astronomical Genealogy Project (AstroGen) has been underway since January 2013. This project of the…
Category: Astronomy
Teaching with Space and Astronomy in your Classroom
“The Teaching with Space and Astronomy in your Classroom course will train and empower you to successfully teach space-related topics. It aims to educate teachers how to introduce and attract more and…
Crowdsouring Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 – Where's the Flux?
Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20% level. The dipping activity can last for between…
How Astronomers View Education and Public Outreach
Over the past few years, there have been a few studies on the development of an interest in science and scientists’ views on public outreach. Yet, to date, there has been no…
Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT): A Remotely Operated Robotic Telescope for Education and Research at Seoul National University
We introduce the Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT), a remotely operated, robotic 0.43-meter telescope. The telescope was installed at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in 2014 October, to secure regular and exclusive…
Perspectives on astronomy: probing Norwegian pre-service teachers and middle school students
We report on ongoing work to gain insight into the astronomy knowledge and perspectives of pre-service teachers and middle school students in Norway. We carefully adapted and translated into Norwegian an existing…
A Michelson-type Radio Interferometer for University Education
We report development of a simple and affordable radio interferometer suitable as an educational laboratory experiment. With the increasing importance of interferometry in astronomy, the lack of educational interferometers is an obstacle…
Discovery of Potential Gravitational Lenses Shows Value of Citizen Science
“Around 37,000 citizen scientists combed through 430,000 images to help an international team of researchers to discover 29 new gravitational lens candidates through Space Warps, an online classification system which guides citizen…
Volunteer Black Hole Hunters Are As Good As The Experts
“Trained volunteers are as good as professional astronomers at finding jets shooting from massive black holes and matching them to their host galaxies, research suggests. Scientists working on citizen science project Radio…
NameExoWorlds Contest Opens for Public Voting
“Although people have been naming celestial objects for millennia, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is the authority responsible for assigning official names to celestial bodies. The NameExoWorlds contest provides not only the…
A Powerful Telescope You Can Build at Home
“A team from the London-based Open Space Agency (OSA) has produced the Ultrascope, a downloadable telescope design that can be generated by a 3D printer, be controlled by simple robotics, and captures…
Student Radar Observations Shine New Light on Near-Earth Asteroid
“A team of scientists participating in a radio astronomy summer school had the unexpected opportunity to observe a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid as it zipped past our planet on July 7. The…