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To celebrate Global Astronomy Month, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA invite you to share your own views of the universe in this exciting astrophotography contest. The images that YOU take using online robotic telescopes could be featured on the Observing With NASA home page !
Live at 20:00 UT April 29, 2011 with composer Giovanni Renzo The new edition of the “Cosmic Concert,” an online musical performance for GAM 2012, is based on the music composed by the Italian pianist and composer Giovanni Renzo. Renzo has worked for a long time with the relationship between music and astronomy (such as star maps changing into scores or compositions based on the beat of the pulsar); and for the last three years he has been invited by Astronomers Without Borders to perform his works live during Global Astronomy Month. This online event is now one of the...
The Planetarium Working Group is dedicated to gathering, sharing and creating activities in planetariums. The project Planetarians Without Borders, launched during Global Astronomy Month, April 2011, and focuses on bringing together planetarium professionals around the globe in ongoing programs and events meant to be sustainable even beyond GAM.
Over the past several years, amateur and professional astronomers around the world have been tearing down the borders in the area of people with disabilities. Many planetariums, astronomy organizations and individuals have focused on solutions for making star parties, hands-on activities and presentations accessible to people who have visual, hearing, mobility or cognitive disabilities. Astronomers Without Borders has contacted many of these visionary people for the purpose of helping educate others as to the various disabilities and the best ways to relate astronomy concepts to them. With the help of authors and successful organizations, AWB has compiled resources for educators...
29 April at 23.00 UT If you have been waiting for your turn to leave for an unforgettable cruise across space and time, Global Astronomy Month (GAM2012) is bringing to you the right chance! Fasten your seat belt and fly to the stars, just connecting with your computer to this web page! Meet other friends online and share your thoughts with them. The Universe will look as never seen before, are you ready? To join this free event, you will just need to access the Virtual Telescope webpage at the date and time shown above.
27 April at 19.00 UT During Global Astronomy Month you can reach the Moon from home! Join our online remote lunar observing session and have fun with plenty of friends from all around the planet. Find your own crater, mount or sea while flying over our ancient satellite, with our live narration. We promise you an unforgettable event. To join this free event, you will just need to access the Virtual Telescope webpage at the date and time shown above.
24 April 2012, at 20:00 UT New date, rescheduled due to weather For GAM2012, Virtual Telescope we will run a very special event, traveling across space and time, leaving the Earth for the Moon, galaxies and the most distant objects in the Universe. To join this free event, you will just need to access the Virtual Telescope webpage at the date and time shown above.
23 April 2012, at 21:00 UT New date, rescheduled due to weather Perhaps, Saturn is the most elegant object in the sky. Looking at its amazing rings truly is a life-time experience and Global Astronomy Month (GAM2012, April 2012) is bringing such a great beauty to you! With just your computer and your internet connection, you will fly to Saturn, discovering its fantastic rings. Meet other friends online and share your thoughts with them. Don't miss this journey of beauty and elegance. To join this free event, you will just need to access the Virtual Telescope webpage at the date...
In 1995, the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) initiated the Cosmopoetry Multiproject, which became international soon after that. Beyond its cultural-educational role in attracting people to astronomy, this multiproject has had two main purposes: 1. To fight for the identity of astronomical poetry—moving from simply being a festive component in world literature (as it had been for a long time) to a distinctive and organized literary/astronomical genre called “astropoetry”; 2. To promote a related concept called “cosmopoetry” and based on astro-photo-art-poetry combinations conceived as fluent (individual or collective) stories. In this respect, the “Cosmopoetry – SARM and Friends”...
April 12, 2012 Human Spaceflight became a reality 51 years ago with the launch of a bell-shaped capsule called “Vostok 1.” The capsule was carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who took his place in history as the first human to leave the bounds of Earth and enter outer space. Exactly 20 years later, the United States embarked on a new era in spaceflight with the inaugural launch of a new type of spaceship — the Space Shuttle. Designed to carry a larger crew and large volumes of cargo to orbit, the Space Shuttles became synonymous with human spaceflight for an...
