1. The Telescope a story about children and their technology by Michael Moore for CCTP-742in Fall, 2008 2. Maddie, a girl who lived on the moon, was fascinated with Earth.“I’m…
1. Hands-on Astronomy at Mauna Kea Stars and planets are too far away for us to visit (for now!), but being an astronomer is still an adventure, especially when we get to…
1. FAITH LESSONS 2/4 Seeing is NOT Believing BUT Believing is Seeing. Seeing is limited to distance or boundaries our eyes can reach. For instance in human’s body, there…
Slide 1Seeing the First Light The James Webb Space Telescope Amber N. Straughn Lead Scientist for JWST E/PO Paul Geithner JWST Observatory Manager jwst.nasa.gov Slide 2 (JWST…
Slide 1 All these Sky Pixels Are Yours The evolution of telescopes and CCD Arrays: The Coming Data Nightmare Slide 2 Once Upon a Time: Life Was Simple One Big Telescope One…
Slide 1 A Universe of Galaxies Ian Dell’Antonio Brown University Slide 2 The night sky Looking up at night (from a dark site!), you can see many stars, the Moon, up to…
Slide 1 The SOAR Telescope MSU’s Laboratory for Astronomical Discovery Slide 2 An International Partnership Cerro Pachón, Chile Brazil National Optical Astronomy Observatory…
Slide 1 BY NOAH FRYE Slide 2 OUR SOLAR SYSTEM Our solar system has eight different planets with a dwarf planet named Pluto. We are the third planet in the solar system.…
Slide 1 4. Telescopes Light gathering power and resolution Optical and radio telescopes Limitations of Earth’s atmosphere and satellite missions. Instruments (prism spectrographs…