GLPA 2016: Science Communication Is Done By People
(This is a guest post from Dr. Patrick Durrell, director of the Ward Beecher Planetarium at Youngstown State University, one our Cosmoquest partners.) This past week saw the entire staff of YSU’s Ward Beecher Planetarium participate in the meeting of the Great Lakes...
Halloween: Trick or Treat with your Telescope!
Today is Halloween, and many of you will have little monsters, Elsas, Storm Troopers, Batmen and SuperGirls coming to your door. Last year, Mike Simmons at Astronomers Without Borders pointed out this is one heck of a great opportunity to pull out a telescope. As a...
SCIENCE FAIRS: Exploring the Solar System and Beyond
(This is a guest post by Dr. Larry Lebofsky of the Planetary Science Institute, one of our CosmoQuest partners) SCIENCE FAIRS: Exploring the Solar System and Beyond is a professional development program that focuses on helping teachers attain the needed content...
Teachers “InVESTAgate” and Gain Professional Development with CosmoQuest
(This is a guest post from one of our Cosmoquest partners, Dr. Keely Finkelstein of the McDonald Observatory at University of Texas at Austin) One of CosmoQuest's goals is to develop useful curriculum materials for teachers to use in the class room. One of the ways we...
Charlie Brown, Black Holes, and Gravitational Waves
New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of a dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing? — William Least Heat Moon,...
A Matching Game With No Matches?
(Guest blog post from Theresa Summer of theAstronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), Educators' Zone Demo & Design Specialist for CosmoQuest) CosmoQuest and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific are developing a game to see what non-scientists can discover...
Carnival of Space #480
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by me, Susie Murph, over at Universe Today. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #480. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an...
New and Improved CosmoQuest, Debuting Now!
Ok, folks, we're finally getting some well-needed updating done to our website! We're introducing the base site this week, and will continue to introduce new features and sections soon - including our new and improved Mapper Apps, making it even easier to map craters...
Carnival of Space #479
This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Check out this week's sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends! Click here to read Carnival of Space #474. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s...
Attending DPS? So Are We! Come Science With Us!
CosmoQuest team members and partners are attending the Annual Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Annual Meeting in Pasadena this week and presenting workshops. Here is what our team will be doing at DPS! On Monday, Jake Noel-Starr (InsightSTEM)...
Join the Crew!
Escape Velocity Space News