MichianaSTEM Astro blog

In less than 500 days, Venus will pass directly between the Sun and the Earth for the last time in your lifetime. You can watch.

Michiana Astronomical Society’s Chuck Beuter has blogged on his effort with NDeRC’s ASTRO collaboration to help Michiana K-12 students and teachers prepare for this event. Click on the image above to read his post, and while you are there explore Chuck’s transitofvenus.org site. It’s not too early to be getting excited for this event.

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NASA has found it’s 1st ROCKY Planet with the Kepler telescope!
I’m sure this was released at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, since that’s where the scientist was reporting from.  This is the first year I’ve missed the meeting, and I would have really loved to have been there to hear all the details!

WATCH THE VIDEO!

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/11/stout.nasa.new.planet.cnn

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An interesting article for those, like myself, who are already prepared to forgo the research avenue of career choice after my PhD so that I can get married and start a family.  I have no desire to wait until I’m 40 to have kids… So a non-research position is my only choice.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/keeping-women-in-science-on-a-tenure-track/?hp

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A 10 yr old girl is the youngest person to discover a Supernovae!

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/04/girl-10-becomes-youngest-to-discover-supernova/

Enjoy the story and remember to encourage students at ALL ages, because you never know what great things they will discover!

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