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The Lamar High School astronomy class, taught by Mr. Jeff Flint, takes their learning beyond the circular planetarium of their classroom and out to the back of the school to look through a telescope at different planets and stars during their astronomy nights.
The first one of the semester was held on Feb. 18 at 7 p.m. Students looked through telescopes at Jupiter and the Orion Nebula.
Approximately eight times throughout the semester Mr. Flint hosts an astronomy night where students can look at different objects in the night sky through two different telescopes. His astronomy students are required to attend two nights.
Most of the time a classroom is rows of desks and four walls. But sometimes, a classroom is the entire night sky.
That astronomy night was the first time senior Rodrigo Chavez and junior Paige Ybarra had ever used a telescope.
"I was kind of confused at first on where to put my eye and how to move the telescope around," Ybarra said.
Both Ybarra and Chavez were surprised by the amount of detail that was shown through the telescope.
"It's better to look at the stars in person than in pictures," Chavez said. "It makes it clearer."
Ybarra agreed. "I was able to understand how they actually looked instead of just seeing a bright little dot."
Flint hosts the astronomy nights because it "allows student to see objects in real life versus the internet where it doesn't really have a personal connection. I like for them to look at the object through one telescope and then we use the camera on the other telescope to let them see the full detail."
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A mysterious plume of material reaching high into the Martian atmosphere has scientists buzzing about the Red Planet and they have amateur astronomers to thank for spotting the baffling feature.
Wayne Jaeschke is a patent lawyer by day, but most nights, you can find him in his observatory, pointing a telescope skyward. In March 2012, Jaeschke spotted what looked like a dust cloud popping off the surface of Mars. Two years later, he is a co-author on a scientific paper investigating thenature of the perplexing Mars plumes.
"You know, 999,999,999 times out of a million, when the amateur astronomers see something in an astronomical photo, the professionals have seen it as well, or they have a theory for explaining it," Jaeschke said. "But this is a rare case where no one has been able to explain it." [7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]
Jaeschke started observing the sky when he was just a kid. He learned about the cosmos from a family friend who went on to lead the astronomy department at Stanford University. Though he never pursued astronomy as a career, over the years, it grew into a serious hobby.
"About 10 years ago, I started to image the planets on a daily basis," Jaeschke said.
Thanks to the reduced cost of high-quality cameras, data storage, photo editing software and, of course, quality telescopes amateur astronomers like Jaeschke can take high-quality sky images every night, and gradually build up huge volumes of data.
Over the years, Jaeschke has built up an email list of both amateur and professional astronomers who want to hear about his work.
"The more data you produce, the more people get interested particularly professionals, because they can't look at [the planets] all the time," Jaeschke said (even the fleet of orbiting satellites around Mars can't watch every inch of the Red Planet all the time). "So, they turn to the amateur community."
Professional astronomers can use these daily photographs to do things like monitor daily changes in a planet's weather, he said. In some instances, professionals and amateurs collaborate on targeted observations.
On the night of March 19, 2012, Jaeschke was taking images of Mars per his usual routine, when he noticed "a little blob" on the side of the planet. He assumed it was a technical issue perhaps a problem with one of the monitors, or even just a speck of dust on one of the lenses.
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NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a highly modified Boeing 747SP jetliner carrying a 100-inch (2.5-meter) effective diameter telescope. Fitted with instruments that collect data at infrared wavelengths, SOFIA flies at altitudes between 39,000 and 45,000 feet on 10-hour overnight science missions. Alamogordo's Jeffery Killebrew and Michael Shinabery are the first educators from New Mexico to be selected to fly on the special jetliner. (Courtesy PhotoNASA)
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA, the world's largest flying telescope has selected two Alamogordo educators to join them on an educational flight as Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors to learn about infrared astronomy.
New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired science teacher Jeffery Killebrew and New Mexico Museum of Space History Education Specialist Michael Shinabery will work side-by-side with NASA astronomers to study infrared light.
According to a press release from the SOFIA Science Center, SOFIA's Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program began in 2010 and has flown 55 educators from the United States and eight from Germany between 2010 and 2014. Killebrew and Shinabery are the first educators from New Mexico to be selected to fly on the modified Boeing 747SP jetliner.
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Killebrew said starting Monday he and Shinabery will take a 10 week graduate level astronomy course from Montana State University before embarking on their flight. Exact flight dates have not been announced.
"It's an exciting opportunity and we're very honored to have been chosen," Killebrew said. "We were told it was a highly competitive selection process, so just to know that, it's truly an honor."
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Thousands of students thronged the Radio Astronomy Centre (RAC) of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) at Muthorai near here on Saturday to celebrate National Science Day.
Inaugurating the celebrations Siraj Hasan, Honorary Professor and former Director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, said that career opportunities were on the rise in the field of science.
Pointing out that a number of scientific projects like the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) and the National Large Solar Telescope were coming up, he said that lots of scientific hands are needed to run those facilities.
The Head, RAC, P.K. Manoharan, who presided, said that the objective of the celebrations was to create awareness about science among the people. The RAC operates the Ooty Radio Telescope which was one of the biggest in the world. It was being used for several important astronomy and astrophysical studies.
Stating that over 5000 students from about 64 educational institutions in various parts of the district had turned up for the celebrations, he said that it reflects the growing interest in science.
Activities like observing the functioning of the ORT, observing the Sun and sunspots with an optical telescope, demonstrations by other scientific and research organisations of the district and display of models by schools and colleges marked the occasion.
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SIERRA VISTA Huachuca Astronomy Club Member Bob Gent can still recall how he would lean the small telescope his grandfather gave him against his house when he was a young boy growing up in Phoenix, and peer into thenightsky.
Just looking up at the sky and seeing thousands of stars and wondering, how far away are they? How many are there? Can we go visit them? What are they made of? Where is the last star? Could there event be a last star? What is the nature of infinity? Gent said. It triggeredmyimagination.
On Monday night, with his 8-inch diameter Newtonian telescope locked on the crescent moon, Gent was passing down that spark to students gathered on the Joyce Clark Middle School sports field. Between bites of sweet snacks, the students took in the natural wonders of space during the schools second-ever Pie in theSkyevent.
I just think that families need to see the fun side of science, Eighth-grade science teacher Tari Hardy said.Sometimes its nice to just relax, have some deserts, see the sky and actually talk to some really knowledgeable people about an interesting aspectofscience.
Hardy organized the event, partnering with the astronomy club to bring its members out to volunteer their timeandtelescopes.
Every time a young student comes up here and looks through the telescope and goes wow! you know that youve helped introduce them to science and astronomy,Gentsaid.
There was no shortage of wows on Monday, with students glimpsing much more than just the moon as the eveningworeon.
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Budding astronomers have flocked to participate in the world's largest astronomy lesson. Photo: ICRAR / Astronomy WA / Astrofest
Close to 1000 people are expected to lift their eyes to the skies on Saturday night in a bid to set a world record.
The world's largest astronomy lesson will get underway at 6.30pm at Maida Vale Reserve and will see Richard Tonello from Astronomy Education Services share some of his expertise after the sun goes down.
He said there were five "targets" to look at including Jupiter and the Moon.
More than 1,000 registrations have already been received for the record attempt. Photo: ICRAR / Astronomy WA / Astrofest
"I wanted to tell a story about how stars are born and also how solar systems are born," Mr Tonello said.
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"We start off with the great Orion nebula, where stars are forming right now.
"Then we'll look at a cluster of stars called the wishing well cluster and then we'll look at a particular star which is very similar to our sun."
Participants will need to bring their own binoculars or telescope. Photo: ICRAR / Astronomy WA / Astrofest
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By all counts, Earth is on a one way trip to oblivion. Our aging Sun will see to that. Within 500 to 900 million years from now, photosynthesis and plant life on Earth will reach a death-spiral tipping point as the Sun continues its normal expansion and increases in luminosity over time.
Trouble is, researchers are still unsure about all the grisly endgame details, and their models of such slow motion horrors are hard to test. But a team of researchers now say that finding and observing nearby aging Earth-analogues, undergoing the ravages of their own expanding sun-like stars, will help Earth scientists understand how the stellar evolution of our own sun will affect life here on Earth. [Within] 500 million light years figure most plants become extinct, although some could potentially last up to 900 million years from now by employing more carbon-efficient photosynthetic pathways, Jack OMalley-James, an astrobiologist at the University of St. Andrews in the U.K. told Forbes. At this point
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In a paper to appear in the journal Astrobiology, OMalley-James, the lead author and colleagues, notes that as the Suns luminosity pushes the inner edge of our solar systems current habitable zone at 0.99 AU (or one Earth-Sun distance) just too far out.
Even so, finding a planet that is a near analogue to the far-future Earth (an old-Earth-analogue) could provide a means to test these predictions; including declines in species diversity, extent of habitat and ocean loss, and changes in such planets geochemical cycles.
If we did find such a planet, detailed long-term studies could give us an insight into its long-term carbon cycle, possible showing us whether carbon dioxide (CO2) levels really will plummet over the next billion years in the way we expect, said OMalley-James.
As he explains, in Earths own far-future, plant life will be extinct and the biosphere as we know it will have collapsed into an unfamiliar form. Thus, even if astronomers spots such a dying Earth, around an older sun-like star, could they recognize any remaining signs of life there?
When it comes to positively identifying life on a distant planet, it is still very early days, said OMalley-James. It would be very difficult to pin down any remotely observable signature that we could be 100 percent certain is caused by life on a distant planet. However, this doesnt make work such as this futile.
The hope is that if astronomers can determine the stars age with high enough accuracy, coupled with the fact that the planet has been in a circumstellar habitable zone for billions of years, but is now encroaching upon the very inner-edge of the habitable zone, then OMalley-James says future observations of such planets could make the case that they had observed the dying gasp of the planets biosphere.
The team ran simulations that placed hypothetical Earths around six aging G spectral type stars all within some 30 light years from Earth. OMalley-James notes that in each case, his team used hypothetical examples of an aging Earth-like planet, all in the inner-hot edge of their respective habitable zones.
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St. Petersburg College astronomy professor Antonio Paris has been selected as director of space programs and planetarium for the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa. Paris will be responsible for day-to-day operations of the planetarium, NASA's Mission: Moonbase, Starlab and MOSI's telescope program. He will serve as the on-air space science expert for MOSI and will provide lectures on space, astronomy and other topics of scientific interest. He will continue to lecture at St. Petersburg College.
Last day to apply for SPC scholarships
Feb. 27 is the last day to apply for summer scholarships through the St. Petersburg College Foundation. Each year, the foundation provides hundreds of scholarships to SPC students, made possible through private gifts from individuals, community groups and businesses. Students can apply by visiting spcollege.edu/foundation/instructions.htm.
USFSP professor lands Fulbright assignment
University of South Florida St. Petersburg professor Donny Smoak has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant in environmental science at Shenyang Agricultural University in China. Smoak will head to China for three weeks in June to lecture and participate in a series of seminars on climate change and coastal wetlands.
"I welcome the opportunity to return to China," Smoak said. "There are great scientists there and interesting places to work." He said he hopes the visit will foster additional exchanges with Shenyang University, and that the development of an academic focus in this area could lead to USFSP students seeking advanced training in China.
"Fulbright assignments, one of the highest honors in higher education, underscore the excellence of the faculty at USFSP," said Han Reichgelt, regional vice chancellor of Academic Affairs. "Dr. Smoak's newest award reflects his dedication as a professor and researcher, and the significance of his contributions to the field."
Film festival winds up at Eckerd College
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