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New Online Astronomy Course from CosmoQuest

November 21, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter For those of you who’d like to brush up on your Astronomy knowledge, or never took Astronomy 102, CosmoQuest has a new online course offering for you! Following the success of the initial 101-level course (CQX 001: Solar System Science), the [...]

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CosmoQuest Offering Online Astronomy Course

July 17, 2012

Want to brush up on your astro-knowledge? Wishing you had taken that Astronomy 101 course in college? CosmoQuest – the citizen science and web-based astronomy community — is offering online astronomy courses, and their first offering is now open for signups! “CQX 001: Solar System Science” is an 8-session, 4-week course, exploring the solar system, [...]

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ERGO – Students Sign up to Build the World’s Largest Telescope!

June 28, 2012

Inspired by SETI Chief, Jill Tarter’s 2009 TED ‘Prize Wish’ to “Empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company” the Energetic Ray Global Observatory or ERGO is an exciting new to project that aims to enlist students around the world to turn our whole planet into one massive cosmic-ray [...]

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Chaos and Education at 120,000 feet for Camilla the Rubber Chicken

May 1, 2012

In my travels, I’ve had the pleasure of regularly meeting up with Camilla the Rubber Chicken, the social media maven and mascot for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. But lately I’ve been seeing here virtually everywhere — on television, splashed across all sorts of websites, and even in my local newspaper. What Camilla does is try [...]

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How Small Are Atoms?

April 26, 2012

Here on Universe Today we often discuss things that exist on the atomic and sub-atmonic scale. Even though astronomy is concerned with very big things that happen over very, very large distances and time spans, the reality is that our Universe is driven by events occurring on the tiny atomic scale. We all know atoms [...]

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