Many people have rafted through the Grand Canyon. How many have done it with a string quartet? David Koerner has. An emeritus professor of astronomy, Koerner also is finishing a graduate certificate in piano performance and has a master’s degree in instrumental performance for the viola. He’s combining his two loves with his new appointment: astronomer in residence at the Grand Canyon.
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After spending a weekend in Roswell, New Mexico, to watch the solar eclipse—and pay a visit to the UFO Museum—Gavin Moriarty, president of NAU’s Astronomy Club, weighed in on alien life, a staple of scary stories. Is the research pointing more toward ET, Independence Day or Coneheads?
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Free of Earth’s atmosphere, these telescopes capture images in vivid detail and see deep into space. For most people, the telescopes offer views they could previously only imagine. For astronomers like Ana Morgan, these telescopes are tools to make measurements that Earth-based telescopes might miss.
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A contingent of NAU folk went to Roswell, New Mexico for the Annular Eclipse of Oct. 14th.
Mary Lara (NAU Space Grant AIMER coordinator), Ed Anderson and his wife, Margie McCullough, arrived a couple of days ahead of time and worked with the 3rd – 5th grade classes at Del Norte Elementary School. The… Read more
Second-year Ph.D. student Ian Marrs and third-year Ph.D. student Lucas McClure received Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) awards, which provide funding for research projects designed and performed by graduate students. The projects must contribute to NASA’s science, technology and exploration goals.
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The ACM Conference is held every three years, and doing the math on that, the last iteration was—yep, you guessed it—canceled due to it being the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this year created a lot of excitement for those in the ACM community who had not attended this conference for six years and of course for those like me who would be able to attend,… Read more