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Take A Guided Tour Of The Universe In New York City
The First Tuesday of every month The Museum of Natural History hosts The Known Universe:A Grand Tour at the Hayden Planetarium. Guests are taken from earth to the edge of the known Universe with an astrophysicist as the tour guide.
Tuesday January 5th at 6:30 P.M. you can join astrophysicist Brian Abbott on the biggest […] Continue reading
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Geeky Educators Unite at the NSTA Conference
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to attend part of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) area conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, from December 3-5. More than 2000 educators were supposed to attend for this gathering on Science Education. There were hundreds of workshops, presentations and seminars to teach about developments in […] Continue reading
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The Top Ten Astronomy Photos of 2009
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Today, my favorite astronomer, Phil Plait, has put up his ten favorite astronomy photos of 2009. He says that it is always hard narrowing it down to just ten photos, but I imagine that it was even harder this year. It was a pretty great year for astronomy. With all of the spacecraft […] Continue reading
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