All applications are due on Jan. 25, 2013.
Students interested in joining our NITARP team should click the link below to download the application.
All applications are due on Jan. 25, 2013.
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On Monday you may have heard in the news that NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 461 exoplanets (meaning planets in other solar systems) that potentially could support life. These planets are within the habitable zone of their host star and could therefore have liquid water. Yesterday I went to a session where astronomers were presenting many different studies of these exoplanets. There is a lot of enthusiasm among them for all of the secrets the Kepler mission is revealing. It is amazing to mingle with these discoverers knowing that the things they find out will someday be in our textbooks! Heading home today. It is really fun to think about going to next year's meeting with some students. We have a great adventure ahead of us!. I got to meet Bobak Ferdowsi, Mars Science Laboratory Flight Director. His style has made him almost as famous as the Mars Curiosity Rover! After the conference meetings, I took some time to put my feet in the ocean, then had dinner with many of the people who work with the SOFIA education and outreach program. Such great people! Today, i went to a presentation on the mission highlights of the Spitzer space telescope. Later, I headed to a session about active galactic nuclei. Steep learning curve, but am looking forward to the climb! I posted a couple of this year's posters. Our project will be an extension of this research. Our names will be at the top of the page next year! See, astronomers can have fun, too! This is a full scale model of the mirror array on the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled for launch in 2018. I met our teammates! Varoujan Gorjian, me, Nicole Granucci, Faith (student teacher for John), John Blackwell, and Thomas Rutherford. Very cool people. We started talking about our project. We'll be studying Seyfert galaxies. Our goal is to try to plot the temperature vs. luminosity using two different databases from different telescopes. The purpose is to produce a graph that could be used to estimate distances to active galaxic nuclei just like the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram does for stars. |
Mrs. Paulsen on her flight aboard NASA's SOFIA
AuthorHi, I'm Theresa Paulsen, a science teacher for 16 years. It is important to me to bring field experiences into the classroom. What better way than with NASA? This blog is about those adventures. Archives
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