"Research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing" - Wernher von Braun
NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP)NITARP creates teams of up to four teachers and a professional astronomer to do authentic astronomy research. Several groups have had their research published (our paper on young stellar objects in bright-rimmed clouds BRC 27 and BRC 34 is here) and a summary of our 2014 research on lithium-rich K giants can be found on this Spitzer webpage. The paper for this work was published in the October, 2015 issue of the Astronomical Journal, volume 150, number 4. A pre-press version can currently be found at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.00708v1.pdf. Each NITARP team presents a research poster and an education poster at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). A complete list of publications and posters listed by year can be found on the NITARP Publications Page.
Our current 2016 Independent NITARP team is assisting with a study of the Young Stellar Object VARiability project or YSOVAR, which is a study of the variability of the mid-infrared output of young stars. Information regarding the full project can be found at the YSOVAR project website. Useful links and software we used in our NITARP research.
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The Galaxy Zoo: Register on the Galaxy Zoo website and help scientists study the Universe.Roughly one hundred billion galaxies are scattered throughout our observable Universe, each a glorious system that might contain billions of stars. Many are remarkably beautiful, and the aim of Galaxy Zoo is to study them, assisting astronomers in attempting to understand how the galaxies we see around us formed, and what their stories can tell us about the past, present and future of our Universe as a whole.
Astronomy-Research Based Science Education(A-RBSE)A-RBSE is currently on hiatus however the project resources are still available
at the link above. Projects include:
accessed through the above link. Link to ImageJ image processing software used in A-RBSE |
The American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
The mission of AAVSO is to enable anyone, anywhere, to participate in scientific
discovery through variable star astronomy. The AAVSO website has quite a bit of information and data related to variable stars. The LIGHT CURVE GENERATOR is a very useful tool. Data and projects you can participate in can be found on here.
discovery through variable star astronomy. The AAVSO website has quite a bit of information and data related to variable stars. The LIGHT CURVE GENERATOR is a very useful tool. Data and projects you can participate in can be found on here.