Sentences with phrase «lectures on astronomy»

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Hunting the Right Light Cash got hooked on astronomy as an 8 - year - old, casting aside his earlier interests in dinosaurs and medieval history after hearing a lecture about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

He decided on a three - pronged strategy: going on the lecture circuit, delivering talks on astronomy to audiences in several major cities around the country; writing books; and launching a new monthly astronomy magazine, with a subscription price of $ 3 per year: The Sidereal Messenger.

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Lecture 7 of Dr. Bruce Betts» 2015 online Introductory Planetary Science and Astronomy course covers asteroid Ceres, the near Earth asteroid threat to Earth (including statistics, past impacts, and information on the Chelyabinsk fireball), and introduces the Jupiter system.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Besides providing a general overview of radio astronomy, the new course spends two «lectures» on an actual tour of the Green Bank Observatory.

Event will include a TPS Table, Astronomy Lecture, PBS - POV DVD showing Bill Nye video, and night time telescope viewing (weather permitting), located at the Shake - A-Leg Miami area in Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami Florida on the Biscayne Bay waterfront.

Astronomy Textbook — A free, open source Introductory textbook to Astronomy from OpenStax Astronomy timeline — A very concise history of Astronomy Astronomy MOOCs — A list of open courses in Astronomy Astronomy courses — A compilation of MOOCs Crash Course Astronomy videos — If you are new to Astronomy and short on time, these youtube videos offer a good start Silicon Valley Astronomy lectures — Audio and video of well - known scientists explaining astronomical developments in everyday language.

(scroll down to the bottom of the page to choose category - outreach public lectures, Science training, Engineering workshops etc) Astronomy Live and Slooh — Watch major Astronomical events live Astronomy Cast, Cosmoquest — weekly discussions on astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology Observing podcasts — Weekly podcasts on observing the sky StarTalk radio — A commercial radio program devoted to all things space, hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

The school will be based around an intensive series of lectures from experts, as well as hands - on radio - astronomy projects and tutorials.

Lectures on Neutrino Astronomy: Theory and Experiment (Lectures presented at the TASI School), Francis Halzen, 1998 (arXiv: astro - ph / 9810368v1)

She presents public lectures on her work for LSST and occasionally works with Brookhaven's Office of Education Programs where she gives astronomy - related talks for middle and high school students, as well as science teachers.

Ernesto has been introducing travelers to his native culture for more than a dozen years years, lecturing on topics ranging from local wildlife and Inca ruins to traditional Peruvian perspectives on astronomy.