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Two Weeks in the Quiet Zone…

Posted in astronomy, nrao, paper, personal, science on May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Hello to those of you who haven’t given up on me ever posting here again! I’m slowly getting back to a normal schedule after spending two weeks in Green Bank, West Virginia, in the Radio Quiet Zone. What’s that, you ask? Well, I wrote a two-parter all about radio astronomy’s own version of “light pollution” [...]

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Telescopes from Space!

Posted in astronauts, astronomy, carnival, nrao, space on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut currently living aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 23, loves sending back gorgeous pictures of the Earth and Moon via his Twitter feed, astro_soichi. This morning, I woke up to a lovely picture of the Atacama Desert, complete with a from-orbit view of the ALMA OSF: Click a [...]

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AstroJargon of the Week: HI

Posted in astronomy, jargon, nrao on March 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »

For this week’s (late) AstroJargon, I’d like to point out a bit of jargon I used in my Ada Lovelace post the other day. I talked all about HI (the letter “H” and the Roman numeral one) studies, and before posting, I quickly inserted “neutral hydrogen” as a definition. But why is that important anyway? [...]

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Astronomical Tales to be Told!

Posted in astronomy, history, media, nrao, outreach, telescope on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »

So, I just finished watching, and being very entertained by, “The Pluto Files,” a NOVA special by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Go watch it. Seriously! I’ll wait… There was a part where Clyde Tombaugh’s son was showing off some of his father’s homemade telescopes, including one that had an axle of a Buick. And I thought, [...]

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AAS Wrap-up: Personal Perspective and the Big Stories

Posted in astronomy, cool, exoplanets, kepler, meeting, nrao, personal, science, space, telescope on January 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »

What a crazy ride! I am finally recovered, mostly, from the big American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, that occurred last week.  What a ride! For me, the conference started off with a teaching workshop put on by the Center for Astronomy Education on interactive learning methods in “Astro 101.” As I start to [...]

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News from the Radio Spectrum

Posted in astronomy, nrao, science, technology, telescope on April 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »

The life of a grad student gets pretty crazy from time to time, but I’m excited about returning to blogging as things cool down a bit.  As mentioned in my last post, I’ve got a list of fun things that have caught by attention recently, so I hope to churn those out in time!  Today, [...]

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Where’s Nicole?

Posted in Charlottesville, Expelled, anti-science, astronomy, atheist, blogs, book, bsg, carnival, creationism, critical thinking, education, grad school, iya2009, nrao, paranormal, personal, picture, science, skepchicks, skeptic, space, stupidity, telescope, vaa, virginia, vla on March 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’m still around. Promise! The last few weeks have been super busy with travel, being sick, and work. Coming up in the next few weeks are my thesis committee meeting, a regional conference for my grant, a bellydance workshop, and a class project to design and guide, and generally trying to keep my project moving!  [...]

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Another NRAO TV Appearance!

Posted in astronomy, nrao, tv on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »

NRAO telescopes will be featured on National Geographic’s “Known Universe” from 8-11PM EST/PST. There’s more footage from the VLA and appearances by Rick Perley and Jim Braatz from the NRAO! I met Rick when I was a summer student in Socorro a few years back, and he’s really knowledgeable and super-cool. He gave us our [...]

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Radio Astrochemistry

Posted in astronomy, chemistry, nrao on February 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Last week, I talked about how radio astronomy aids the search for intelligent life in the Galaxy. Today, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory put out a press release about radio astronomers searching for the building blocks of life, or organic chemistry. As Carl Sagan said, we are “star stuff,” so we look for protostars and [...]

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Astronomy History and Moving Forward

Posted in astronomy, iya2009, nrao, vla on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Still reeling from the lack of sleep and a generally really weird day, but there are a couple of things I wanted to “get off my chest” so to speak. First, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the NRAO summer student program. Way before the National Science Foundation started their Research Experiences for Undergraduates, [...]

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