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CosmoQuest is the culmination of roughly 10 years of Fraser Cain, Phil Plait, and I working to communicate astronomy to the public. Over the decade the three of us have chatted in hotel rooms, skype windows, press rooms, bars, restuarants, Google Hangouts… We have chatted a lot, talking about what does and doesn’t work, talking about how we want to try and change and grow the field of astronomy to better engage folks like you in learning and doing astronomy while [...]
I have a first-generation iPod touch, and I bought it as soon as it was announced several years ago. Perusing the iTunes application store early on, it was easy enough to see every application out there, and I downloaded a Mahjong game. Years later, I upgraded to the iOS 3.x and found out that the same programmer had two other applications out. One was called “Moon Globe” and the other “Mars Globe.” Both were and are free. Moon Globe, when [...]
This site is about a whole lot more than just doing citizen science. While I really hope all of you will spend some time exploring the different projects we offer, we also hope that you’ll take the time to learn as well. Part of learning is consuming content like Astronomy Cast and the Weekly Space Hangout. This material from our partner projects currently forces you to leave CosmoQuest, and go out to Google+ and join us on some link that [...]
On March 22, 2013 we found out that many NASA EPO programs will be suspended as a direct result of US budgetary sequestration. The full ramifications are still being learned, but we are proactively working to raise money to make sure that CosmoQuest can continue to support its staff and its programs. As we are able, we will also use any monies we raise to contract amazing people whose jobs are negatively impacted by budgetary cuts.
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