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For nearly three decades, Professor Bob Cadmus, Physics, has provided a collaborative space for astronomy enthusiasts in Grinnell. Cadmus founded Grinnells Astronomy Group when some of his summer research students expressed an interest in continuing to meet during the school year. While the Astronomy Group functions much like many other clubs on campus, Cadmus doesnt like to think of it in those terms.
I always thought of it as an equivalent to when youre in graduate school [and] youre in a research group. I always thought of it as my research group meeting, he said.
Since then, students have continued to attend weekly meetings with Cadmus and other members of the physics faculty who research focus on astronomy. The students and professors discuss current events related to astronomy in an informal setting with no agenda. Attendees are free to ask questions and explore any relevant topics.
No one really knows where its going to go when we start, said Bryson Cale 16, speaking to the spontaneous and unstructured organization of the group.
Cale, a physics major who has been a part of the group since he started attending Grinnell, has been interested in astronomy since early in high school. I want to go to grad school for astrophysics so Ive been attending pretty much every meeting I can ever since I came here, he said.
Because of the informal nature of the group, there isnt a specific number of students who are members.
An average meeting has anywhere from just a few people [to] sometimes ten students and professors, Cale said, who also noted that he has on occasion been the only student to show up. The group has had a recent spike in attendance, leaving Cadmus optimistic about future attendance.
Last week we had 11, but thats a world record. Half a dozen is more typical, he said.
Although the group as a whole has no set objectives, several members have chosen to further their knowledge with independent projects.
There are two students who are involved with making a telescope. Thats a project that a subset of the whole group is working on, Cadmus said.
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What is the role of psychoactive drugs like LSD and opium in shaping history? What is the connection between such drugs and the development of religion? What about astronomy? How do stars fit in with the histories of both religion and drugs? In her latest book, "Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion", Mary Kilbourne Matossian hypothesizes that plantsthe source of psychoactive drugsand starsthe source of feelings of awecombined to shape the development of religion in Europe and the Middle East.
"Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" interprets the New Testament through the trifocal lens of astronomy, mycology and botany, tracing the history of four key psychoactive drugs alongside the history of astronomical beliefs. Based on compelling evidence, "Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" proposes that the Phaistos Disk, an enigmatic artifact from the Greek island of Crete, is the connection between ancient astronomy, the cultivation of psychoactive plants and the development of religion.
"Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" is an informative work that proposes a new answer to the age-old question, What are the origins of religion? A lucid, highly readable chronicle of the histories of astronomy, psychoactive drugs and religion, "Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" is for anyone who has wondered about the origins of religion from a scientific point of view.
"Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" is available through Amazon and from the author at http://www.Plants-Stars-Religion.com.
About the Author
Mary Kilbourne Matossian, Ph.D., received degrees from Stanford University and the American University of Beirut (Lebanon). She is a retired history professor who taught courses in the history of religion, world history, biology, psychology, philosophy, history of ideas and cultural anthropology at the University of Maryland for over 30 years. "Plants, Stars, and the Origins of Religion" is her fifth book.
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Around 15,000 students from more than 170 different countries enrolled in Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space, a new online course taught by UA professor Chris Impey that launched Sunday.
The course is offered in a partnership with UA and Coursera, a for-profit online education company that began negotiations with the UA in 2013. Impey teaches a similar but less rigorous online astronomy course through Udemy, another online learning platform that has about 23,000 students enrolled.
"Its neat that we now have a university partnership with Coursera and are able to do this as an official outreach from the UA," said Matthew Wenger, an educational technologist in astronomy who has worked closely with Impey. I think [it] is really exciting, and to try this new, learning platform is going to be a really nice opportunity to test out some of our course curriculum ideas.
Impey said he is looking forward to engaging with Courseras demographic.
The average age is around 30, and 50-60 percent already have a degree, he said. This isnt a typical demographic of a class I might teach here. I am looking forward to a high level of exchange.
Students can take the class for free or buy a verified completion certificate for $49. Impey said the revenue raised from the class will be split evenly between Coursera and the university.
Impey also currently teaches the Udemy course.
I just want to keep learning how to teach online better, Impey said. The data from astronomy comes from space and telescopes, so working on the Internet is pretty reasonable. Most of what we do face-to-face can be done in some version online.
Impey said he will continue the course on Udemy, because it continues to gain about 1,000 new students a month and is fairly low maintenance.
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What is the recipe for starburst? Astronomers studied NGC 253 with ALMA to find out. These new ALMA data reveal a diffuse envelope of carbon monoxide gas (shown in red), which surrounds stellar nurseries -- regions of active star formation (in yellow). By dissecting these regions with ALMA, astronomers are uncovering clues to the processes and conditions that drive furious star formation. The ALMA data are superimposed on a Hubble image that covers part of the same region. (Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ)/A. Leroy; STScI/NASA, ST-ECF/ESA, CADC/NRC/CSA)
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Starburst galaxies transmute gas into new stars at a dizzying pace up to 1,000 times faster than typical spiral galaxies like the Milky Way. To help understand why some galaxies burst while others do not, an international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to dissect a cluster of star-forming clouds at the heart of NGC 253, one of the nearest starburst galaxies to the Milky Way.
All stars form in dense clouds of dust and gas, said Adam Leroy, an astronomer formerly with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, and now with The Ohio State University in Columbus. Until now, however, scientists struggled to see exactly what was going on inside starburst galaxies that distinguished them from other star-forming regions.
ALMA changes that by offering the power to resolve individual star-forming structures, even in distant systems. As an early demonstration of this capability, Leroy and his colleagues mapped the distributions and motions of multiple molecules in clouds at the core of NGC 253, also known as the Sculptor Galaxy.
Sculptor, a disk-shape galaxy currently undergoing intense starburst, is located approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth, which is remarkably nearby for such an energetic star factory. This proximity makes Sculptor an excellent target for detailed study.
There is a class of galaxies and parts of galaxies, we call them starbursts, where we know that gas is just plain better at forming stars, noted Leroy. To understand why, we took one of the nearest such regions and pulled it apart layer by layer to see what makes the gas in these places so much more efficient at star formation.
ALMAs exceptional resolution and sensitivity allowed the researchers to first identify ten distinct stellar nurseries inside the heart of Sculptor, something that was remarkably hard to accomplish with earlier telescopes, which blurred the different regions together.
The team then mapped the distribution of about 40 millimeter-wavelength signatures from different molecules inside the center of the galaxy. This was critically important since different molecules correspond to different conditions in and around star-forming clouds. For example, carbon monoxide (CO) corresponds to massive envelopes of less dense gas that surround stellar nurseries. Other molecules, like hydrogen cyanide (HCN), reveal dense areas of active star formation. Still rarer molecules, like H13CN and H13CO+, indicate even denser regions.
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