Stories about "Astronomy"
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Bates at Night: Astronomy Extravaganza
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:48 pm
Students "spread the excitement" to local schoolchildren at the annual Astronomy Extravaganza.
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Look What We Found: Aleks Diamond-Stanic’s plate with 1,400 holes
Thursday, June 8, 2017 1:55 pm
While it looks like a pizza screen, the plate was used by astronomers to collect spectra from objects throughout the universe.
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Soderberg ’00 and López-Carr ’93 selected to elite NAS symposium for best and brightest young scientists
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:00 am
The NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science program invites only A-list young researchers. It's also a predictor of later success.
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Museum of Art to connect L-A seventh-graders with space station
Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:49 pm
The Museum of Art will give L/A seventh-graders the opportunity to talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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Science journalist offers astrophotography lecture, wilderness workshop
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:28 pm
Science journalist Babak Tafreshi leads a wilderness photography workshop and offers a lecture related to the Museum of Art exhibition "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography".
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Astronomer, artist to give presentations related to ‘Starstruck’
Monday, October 1, 2012 1:47 pm
Up next in a series of talks connected with the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition "Starstruck" are presentations by an astronomer from Yale and by an artist showing work in the show.
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Museum of Art offers lectures, star parties and more as ‘Starstruck’ shines on
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:58 am
The Bates College Museum of Art presents lectures, star-viewing parties and other public programs throughout the autumn in conjunction with the remarkable exhibition "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography."
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Good heavens! Museum of Art offers one of the first major exhibitions of astrophotography
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:49 pm
The headlining exhibition at the Museum of Art this summer, "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" is among the first major exhibitions examining astrophotography as an art genre.
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Bates invites public to safe viewing of transit of Venus
Friday, June 1, 2012 3:13 pm
Bates invites Lewiston-Auburn residents to a campus viewing of Tuesday's highly anticipated transit of Venus.
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Astronomer to bring complexities of galactic interaction down to earth in talk
Monday, November 7, 2011 1:57 pm
Jeffrey Kenney '80, an astronomy professor at Yale University, discusses interactions within galactic clusters Nov. 10 in a talk intended for a mainstream audience.