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What’s in a Heartbeat? | astrobites
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Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. What’s in a Heartbeat? Aug 27, 2014 Daily Paper Summaries. A Class of Eccentric Binaries with Dynamic Tidal Distortions Discovered With. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA. Published in ApJ (2012). Is really good at finding things that go bump in the night. Even though the spacecraft was crippled. And has been repurposed as K2. Now, imagine dialing this ...
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Opportunities and Resources | ComMIT
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Communicating Science at MIT. Science & Art. Science & Sports. Writing & Blogging. Teaching & Mentoring. Teacher Training at MIT. For Educators, Students, Parents. These projects in the Boston area are looking for volunteers! The Cambridge Science Festival. Held during March and April every year, offers a myriad opportunities to volunteer and create outreach events for the public. Is eager for volunteers to run demonstrations and weekend programs. The Boston Museum of Science. Is eager for volunteers.
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Interesting words: Petrichor - James edward hughes
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Have you ever smelt that distinctive fragrence when the rain falls after a dry period? Have you ever wondered what it was called? Well, wonder no more! The word you are looking for is '. Petrichor is a combination of the Greek word '. Meaning 'stone' and the word '. Which in mythology was the blood of the Gods. The word particularly describes the release of oils from vegitation, which is then absorbed by the surrounding rock and earth. It is this process that produces the distinctive smell. J W M Turner.
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BICEP2 results: inflation and the tensor modes | astrobites
https://astrobites.org/2014/03/17/bicep2-results-inflation-and-the-tensor-modes
Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. BICEP2 results: inflation and the tensor modes. Mar 17, 2014 Current Events. BICEP2 I: DETECTION OF B-mode POLARIZATION AT DEGREE ANGULAR SCALES. It’s not every day that you go into work and hear how the Universe began. Today I was in the audience as the BICEP2 team presented observations of gravitational waves coming to us from the first. 1 This shows the tensor ...
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Guide to Graduate School | astrobites
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Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. Guide to Graduate School. Editors: Dan Gifford, Nathan Sanders. Each link will take you to an Astrobite written about graduate school. With a growing list of authors we will provide more and more material about the adventures that await you following your undergrad experience. Credit: Elizabeth Lagana and Space.com. Which is shorter and involves less research.
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Meet the Authors | astrobites
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Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. Astrobites is a collaboration between astronomy and astrophysics graduate students from around the world. If you have questions or remarks about a blog post, please leave a comment right below the post. Don’t be afraid to start the conversation! You can email us at: astrobites /at gmail.com. Our Twitter handle is @astrobites. Astrobites Authors map (full size).
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Organizing Committee - Communicating Science 2013: A Workshop for Graduate Students
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To contact the workshop Organizing Committee, please email ComSciCon@gmail.com. Harvard University, Astrobites. Harvard University, Astrobites. Harvard University, Astrobites. Harvard University, Astrobites. University of Colorado at Boulder, Astrobites. Harvard University, Astrobites. Harvard University, Astrobites. Harvard University, Faculty Advisor). MIT, Faculty Advisor).
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Wishy-Washy Water World | astrobites
https://astrobites.org/2011/09/21/wishy-washy-water-world
Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. Sep 21, 2011 Guides. Star Wars Underwater City Otoh Gunga. Thus, the discovery of the first potential water world in 2009 was a turning point in exoplanet science. At the time, I was a senior at Harvard University working with David Charbonneau, whose team and their robotic telescopes. Discovered the super-Earth GJ 1214b. Dave describes the discovery. To distingui...
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Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum in Astronomy | astrobites
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Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. Guide to the Electromagnetic Spectrum in Astronomy. The Electromagnetic Spectrum (source: Wikimedia Commons). Astronomy is arguably one of the oldest observational sciences, from the ancient Greeks. All of whom relied on their naked eyes for the study of the heavens. Since the invention of the first optical telescope. In the 1930s, the first rocket-borne UV.
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Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs | astrobites
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Submit a guest post. Undergrads: submit your research! Guide to Spectroscopy and Spectral Lines. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. Guide to Classification of Galaxies and AGNs. For a good general reference on galaxy morphology, see arXiv:1102.0550. For quick notes on specific types of galaxies, AGN, and famous examples of the same, search the text below! Skip to Types of galaxies. Skip to Types of active galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN):. Skip to Types of galaxy clusters. HST image o...
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