A Dream Come True
The Centre for Science Education and Observatory in East Africa is a dream that has turned into a reality for educators, students, parents, and institutions throughout Tanzania. With immense challenges to education of the country’s youth, particularly in critical areas of science and technology, the Centre is providing training for teachers, hands-on laboratories for students, and resources that promises to have a long-lasting impact nationwide.
The Centre for Science Education and Observatory in East Africa has organizational and governmental partners to help it move forward, and is expected to be a project that will also be a model for other sub-Saharan countries. The investment in dollars is low compared to the tremendous return that the team of dedicated volunteers and partners of the Centre is delivering.
AWB Helping NASo for Nepal
NASO's (Nepal Astronomy Society) crowdfunding campaign "Let's Build Schools for Kids in Nepal" is closing June 13. There's only a few days left. NASO continues to fund raise for ever important schools in the earthquake-stricken district of Sindhupalchok, Nepal. Teaching science through astronomy is a goal that Astronomers Without Borders is proud to support and with NASO's crowdfunding effort, we can now directly affect the children of this country.
Please visit the NASo Indigogo campaign page and give or join AWB in helping spread the word.
Asteroid Day - June 30, 2015
What is it? Asteroid Day is a international awareness movement where people learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet and future generations. Asteroid Day will be held on the anniversary of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event, the largest asteroid impact on Earth in recent history.
On June 30, why not plan to go out and try to see asteroid Pallas or Ceres as they will be visible from now through to event day and share your experience with friends, family or your local club. If you see an asteroid or are planning on an Asteroid Day event, tell us about it on our Members' Report. Also go ahead and share your photos and stories on our Facebook and Twitter feeds. We do love to hear from you.
Find out more about Asteroid Day with AsteroidDay.org. There are many events happening around the world and loads of information about the day on this website. You can also register your happening and add it to the map.
AstroArtist of the Month - Danielle Futselaar
Danielle Fuselaar was inspired by SETI and the movie Contact to create poster artwork for the SETIcon 2012. As a result, Danielle has create works of asteroids for Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute. She then went on to illustrate the planets Kepler 186 and Kepler 186.
Check out her work in the first in her series of posts at our AstroArtist blog.
SOFIA Hosts Mike
Tuesday, June 2, our president Mike Simmons will be onboard the SOFIA observatory. The SOFIA or Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a converted Boeing 747SP and was originally acquired by Pan American World Airways for NASA and is packed with equipment like cameras, spectrometers, and photometers.
On this trip Mike will be watching and reporting on current projects like star birth and death, planets, comets and asteroids in our solar system and black holes at the center of galaxies!
Follow him during this 10 hour journey into the depth of space all from the hull of an airplane flying in Earth's stratosphere through AWB's Twitter feed and Facebook page.
