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The Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) Nigeria will be organizing a number of events to mark this year's Global Astronomy Month (GAM). Some of these events include: Yuri's Night Astronomy on the Streets Schools' Astronomy Outreaches Astronomy Camps among others Here are a few pics from last year's events Olayinka Abiodun Fagbemiro is a Nigerian Scientist. She has a post graduate degrees in Technology Management, Basic Space and Atmospheric Science. She has spent the last 11 years carrying out Space and Astronomy Education Outreach activities to school kids with special interest in the girl-child, as well as rural kids across Nigeria....
It's meant as a joke, but unfortunately it's not. Two thousand years after Eratosthenes of Cyrene first calculated the circumference of the Earth, in a time where tourist space travel is almost a reality, there are still people who believe the Earth is flat. These so called “flat earthers” believe the Earth is a disk, covered by a gigantic dome, with the Sun and the Moon rotating in circles above it, and with Antarctica being a gigantic ice wall (just like in Game of Thrones), going all around the edge of the disk. Gravity doesn't exist – the disk is...
I am an astronomy teacher. I work in the Mehr Observatory in the Bushehr, a city in south of Iran. I'm going to explain about a festival we have every year. I think it's one of the best astronomical programs in the world. If you doubt it, please continue reading. Mehr observatory in Bushehr and Iran's Teacher Astronomy Union (ITAU) has designed an astronomical festival for students for an almost complete day (from the afternoon till next morning.) Introducing astronomy and the sky, camping and environmental habits, and some of life's necessary activities are the main goals of this festival....
Part of the cleanroom lunar sample processing arrangements, showing the work areas, glove boxes and other provisions for avoiding lunar sample contamination at the Lunar Sample Building, Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas That's how Harvard geologist Clifford Frondel described the rocks returned from the Moon by Apollo 11's astronauts. Frondel was among a quartet of scientists chosen to make the first quick assessment of the samples' appearance once they arrived at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. But he was frustrated to find that the rocks were still covered by a thick, dark coating of lunar dust. Studying the rocks...
In celebration of the 100th birthday of the International Astronomical Union, the IAU100 Global Project Dark Skies for All aims to raise awareness for the preservation of dark skies for current and future generations. A key part of the project is to provide access to a useful, self-contained, and well-tested teaching kit on dark skies, namely the “Turn on the Night” educational kit. Developed at NOAO, the kits are now being built and distributed by an educational kit company called Laser Classroom under a recent agreement with AURA/NOAO. To acquire your kit, please see https://mailchi.mp/laserclassroom.com/turnonthenight. A second main objective of...
