Welcome to this inaugural issue of the NOIRLab Education & Engagement Newsletter.
If you are interested in K–12 education, STEM activities supporting the Next Generation Science Standards, Indigenous engagement, the Community-based Science Model, informal education, outreach and everything in between. This newsletter is for you, if not, you can unsubscribe at the bottom of this email.
Our focus here is mostly on education, engagement and outreach related to our amazing Programs — Vera C. Rubin Observatory, International Gemini Observatory, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), the Community Science and Data Center (CSDC), and Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO).
This month the excitement is great as Rubin Observatory just completed its first end-to-end test. In other words, the telescope and its advanced data systems are working. The next several months will be spent on tweaking the software and hardware to perfection.
Yours in lifelong learning,
Justine Schaen
Justine Schaen
Editor
education@noirlab.edu
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2 Nov. 2024
Stellar Safari is Rubin Observatory’s newest investigation, released in August. Students explore stars in their wild and natural environments to compare and understand their properties, and determine the distances to …
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2 Nov. 2024
Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is pleased to announce the launch of a variety of field trip programs for K–12 school groups, homeschool groups, and other education groups. This unique …
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2 Nov. 2024
In celebration of its fifth anniversary, NSF NOIRLab recently released a dazzling new image of the Rosette Nebula, taken with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on …
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2 Nov. 2024
Project ASTRO is a long-running project at NOIRLab that brings together classroom teachers and astronomers to collaborate on astronomy education in the classroom. The Project ASTRO fall workshop was held …
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2 Nov. 2024
Join the hunt for exoasteroids by bringing a new citizen science opportunity into your classroom! Exoasteroids is a citizen science project designed to help astronomers discover debris disks and asteroids …
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2 Nov. 2024
Professional Development Opportunities NOIRLab Sessions at the NSTA National Conference Generating classroom lessons from NSF-funded facility resourcesThursday 7 November • 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CDTNew Orleans Ernest N. Morial …
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2 Nov. 2024
On 15 November Saturn will end its retrograde motion, halting its westward movement through the constellations and returning to its usual eastward motion. This reversal of direction is a phenomenon …
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