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Fifty Years Ago
It was a Sunday afternoon in July and I was nine years old. In my hometown of Deseret, Utah we attended our normal church meetings, going to Sunday School in the morning. Everyone was more excited and restless than usual. … Continue reading
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Tagged air and space museum, apollo 11, apollo 50th anniversary, apollo soyuz, buzz aldrin, command module, einstein fellows, lunar module, michael collins, neil armstrong, newmast, nitarp, service module, skylab, smithsonian, the eagle has landed, tranquility base, walter cronkite
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AAS in Seattle: Wed., Jan. 7, 2015
On this third full day of the American Astronomical Society conference in Seattle, we had a lot going on. This was the big day for our students to present the science results of their NITARP study and the poster we … Continue reading
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Tagged aas, american astronomical society, astronomy education, crepes, gravitational waves, hubble bubble, ligo, many worlds theory, mathematical universe, max tegmark, merging black holes, multiverse, nasa astrophysics missions, nasa budget, nasa decadal survey, nasa education, nitarp, occam's razor, paul hertz, search for galactic civilizations, seattle
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AAS in Seattle: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015
Note: I am writing this almost two years after the fact. Life has been busy and events carry one onward, but for the next week I hope to do some catching up on this blog. Fortunately, I took good notes … Continue reading
2015 AAS in Seattle – Day 2: A Sampler of Sessions
On the first full day of the American Astronomical Society Conference in Seattle, my students and I attended a variety of plenary sessions, poster sessions, parallel sessions, and a follow up meeting of all the NITARP groups. I also had … Continue reading
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Tagged aas, american astronomical society, astronomy conference, astronomy education, dyson swarm, exoplanet atmospheres, future of space exploration, heds, hubble telescope servicing mission, human exploration and development of space, hypervelocity stars, john grunsfeld, kic 8462852, megastructure, nasa policy, nitarp, ophiucus stream, planet hunters, sagittarius dwarf, seattle, space policy, tabby's star, tabetha boyajian, tim spuck, val allen belts
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Astronomy in Seattle: 2015 AAS Conference Day 1
From January 4th through 8th, 2015, I travelled with four of my students to Seattle to present posters at the American Astronomical Society Conference. Our experiences will be detailed in the next several posts. Not many high school teachers … Continue reading
Making Spectral Energy Distributions
During our training at Caltech in the summer of 2014, my NITARP students and I learned how to create spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of our target K-giant stars. I wanted to develop a more general lesson plan for my astronomy … Continue reading
NITARP Days 5-6: What We’ve Learned
For our final day at Caltech for the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP) we drew conclusions from our research and evaluated how much we’ve learned from the process. Our main goal, besides learning how to use the IPAC … Continue reading
NITARP Day 4: Digging Into Data
On Thursday, July 31, 2014 my students and I continued our NITARP (NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program) experience at Caltech. Today we dug deeply into the K-giant data and converted the magnitude data at various wavelengths for our target stars … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy data, astrophysics data, caltech, color-color diagrams, color-magnitude diagrams, excel spreadsheet, flux density, infrared processing and analysis center, k-giant stars, nitarp, signal to noise, spectral energy distribution, using authentic data in classrooms, wise data
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NITARP Day 3: Return to JPL, Wien’s Law, and Griffith Observatory
On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, our second day at the NITARP workshop at Caltech, we accomplished three major things. First, we traveled to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a tour. Second, we began to wrap our brains around the calculations … Continue reading
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Tagged caltech, curiosity rover, flux density, griffith observatory, in-situ instruments lab, insight probe, jet propulsion laboratory, k-giant star, nitarp, sed, smap probe, soil moisture active passive probe, spacecraft assembly building, spectral energy distribution, von karman auditorium, voyager probe, wise data
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NITARP Workshop at Caltech: Days 1-2
I haven’t written a post for this blog for a long time, and much has happened. Over the next two months I hope to write at least three posts per week and bring everything up to date. It’s been quite … Continue reading
The Spaced-Out Classroom 