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Cooler weather and holiday breaks often mean looking for something fun (and indoors!) to do together. Have fun while learning by seeing one of the "Discover" exhibits from STAR Library Network - STEM Learning in Libraries, hosted at different libraries across the country.
Want to see if there's an exhibit near you? Check out the exhibition series schedule for dates and locations:
http://www.starnetlibraries.org/…/discover-exhibition-sche…/
Discover Earth | Mountain Home Public Library until Jan. 18, 2018
Discover Health | Pueblo City-County Library District until Jan. 5, 2018
Discover Space | Laramie County Library System Dec. 27 - March 27, 2018
Discover Tech | Juneau Public Libraries Jan. 10 - April 6, 2018
Have you been to one of STAR_Net's exhibits? What was your favorite part? Share below! #SaturdayScience
Eyes to the skies tonight (and every night 
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If you're at the Winter AGU meeting in New Orleans, come say hi to us in the exhibit hall! We're at booth 1451....
Lots of #eclipse2017 talk at #AGU17! Great discussion on findings from the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse observations, including work by SSI's Padma Yanamandra-Fisher.
Dr. Yanamandra-Fisher and her team used the August eclipse to measure polarized light from the inner solar corona, which can only be observed from the ground during a total solar eclipse. Studying the Sun’s inner corona in polarized light helps scientists track the signatures of solar activity that may help explain th...e corona’s extraordinarily high temperatures. Data was gathered at two different telescope sites.
“The data set we acquired from one of our two sites is one of the best data sets of visible polarization of the inner corona available right now, because we had a pristine observing site in Tetonia, Idaho, and a great example of professional and amateur observer collaboration,” said Yanamandra-Fisher.
More discussion on eclipse findings from the Dec. 11 session: https://www.nasa.gov/…/eclipse-2017-science-from-the-moon-s…
Space Science Institute shared NASA GLOBE Observer's post.
Don't miss this awesome #AGU17 session tomorrow (12/13) from 5:20-5:30 p.m. in Room 245! Various SSI/STAR_Net folks will be presenting on their work with public library engagement programs (~7000 organizations!) for #eclipse2017.
See the link below for more event details!
#AGU17 -- "The 2017 Solar Eclipse Community Impacts through Public Library Engagement"
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 17:20 – 17:30 CT in room 245 (New Orleans... Ernest N. Morial Convention Center). Details: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/262855
Description: More than two million pairs of eclipse glasses were distributed free through public libraries in the U.S. for the solar eclipse of the Sun. About 7,000 organizations, including public library branches, bookmobiles, tribal libraries, library consortia, and state libraries took part in the celestial event of the century.
Are you at American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in New Orleans this week? Swing by Booth 1451 (http://bit.ly/2BbHwYa) to visit us and say hello!
SSI staff are available to talk about our programs and recruit research and education PIs all week, so please feel free to come by our booth to learn more about how soft money works and if SSI is the right place for you!
Amazing news coming from the Kepler Mission...
https://www.yahoo.com/…/kepler-mission-nasa-reveal-ai-11032…
Congrats to SSI researcher Ralph Shuping for another STELLAR publication! Check out this beautiful optical image from his study!
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Ralph Shuping and Travis Rector (of UA Anchorage) were recently involved in a study of Herbig-Haro ("HH") objects in the star-forming region called 'LDN 673' - a relatively nearby region of active star formation towards the Aquila Rift. HH objects are small regions of shock-excited gas due to jets from young stars and are a tell-tale sign of v...igorous, on-going star formation. How awesome is that!
Preprint of The Astrophysical Journal publication is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00305
Space Science Institute added 24 new photos to the album: SSI Holiday Party 2017 — with Brooks Mitchell at Space Science Institute.
Check out our Ugly Christmas Sweater contest & White Elephant shenanigans!
Space Science Institute updated their cover photo.
Saturn, as shot by NASA's Cassini Mission to Saturn
Image Credit: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology - Caltech Space Science Institute
Space Science Institute is with ColoradoGives.org.
TODAY is the day!
Colorado Gives Day is featuring a $1 Million Incentive Fund, one of the largest gives-day incentive funds in the country! Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day receives a portion of the fund, increasing the value of every dollar donated. Give where you live! Donation link: https://www.coloradogives.org/SpaceScienceInstitute
Good morning, everyone! #COGivesDay is here!
Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and increase philanthropy in Colorado through online giving. With ColoradoGives.org and FirstBank's $1 Million Incentive Fund (one of the largest "gives-day" funds in the country!), every donation gets a boost. The more a non-profit raises during this big event, the better our chances are for receiving the incentive corporate matching funds!
Donation site: https://www....coloradogives.org/SpaceScienceInstitute/overview
By donating, you're supporting our work in areas such as STEM outreach, student internships, and science education and research. And as a bonus, commemorative SSI/Cassini stickers will be mailed to donors (based on availability-so donate early)!
Please be sure to encourage all the science-lovers in your life to consider donating to SSI today - you don't have to be in Colorado to join Colorado Gives Day and support SSI! Any and all donations received are incredibly appreciated!!
As we barrel toward the end of the year, take a minute to pause and enjoy the last 2017 #MeetaScientistMonday! Say hello to Senior Research Associate Eric Omelian, freshly back on the East Coast in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Eric's current research involves binary stars called symbiotic stellar systems. He studies the R Aqr system, a dusty pulsating cool giant star that has a smaller hot companion that accretes matter from the cool giant. He studies how the hotter smaller comp...anion star and accretion affect the dusty circumstellar shell of the cool giant star.
Here are some links related to Eric's research:
• http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017/raqr/
• https://youtu.be/KFJ6E40vA9A
A snapshot of the full Q&A is below; check out the image for the full Q&A.
• What sparked your interest in science?
Growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s I had ample exposure to the Apollo Moon landings and some of the best science fiction films of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ’70s.
• What skill would you like to master?
Making bread.
• What was your favorite non-science class in high school? Your favorite teacher?
In high school, it was economics. My favorite teacher was a chemistry professor in undergrad, who introduced me to physical chemistry, Bela Bartok, and some really cool experimental physics and chemistry.
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TOMORROW is Colorado Gives Day! Consider donating to help SSI raise funds to support our work in areas such as STEM outreach, student internships, and science education & research - commemorative SSI/Cassini stickers will be mailed to donors depending on availability!
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Colorado Gives Day is featuring a $1 Million Incentive Fund, one of the largest gives-day incentive funds in the country! Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day receives a portion of the fund, increasing the value of every dollar donated. Give where you live! Donation site: https://www.coloradogives.org/SpaceScienceInstitute/overview
