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Tag Archives: infrared
The NITARP Workshop
Today is Jan. 5, 2014. It’s been a fairly steep learning curve as I’ve attended the opening workshop for NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, NITARP provides opportunities for science teachers and their students … Continue reading
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Tagged 2mass, aas, american astronomical society, astronomy data, authentic science data, bright rimmed clouds, caltech, data archive, excess infrared, exoplanet, infrared, ipac, lithium, magfest, mentor teacher, nasa astrophysics division, NASA science mission directorate, nitarp, paul hertz, planet-eating stars, spitzer, stellar rotation, wise
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SOFIA Instruments and Operations
In order to be on vampire time for tonight’s flight, we were encouraged to stay up as late as possible last night and sleep in this morning. I got up to eat breakfast about 7:00, then went back to sleep … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, bolometer, coating mirrors, daof, dryden aircraft operations facility, exes, fifi-ls, flitecam, FORCAST, german receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, hawc, hipo, infrared, SOFIA, stratospheric observatory for infrared astronomy, vapor deposition
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The SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program
It’s official! I’ve been chosen, along with Carolyn Bushman from Wendover Jr/Sr High School and 24 other teachers and informal educators, to be a SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador. SOFIA is the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, a converted Boeing 747SP … Continue reading
The Spaced-Out Classroom 