Are We Alone? and the SETI Institute Celebrate IYA:
The International Year of Astronomy 2009
Are We Alone? IYA podcasts:
Astronomy Happenings and Information
- Attend the first of this season’s Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures at Foothill College on October 7, 2009. The first speaker is Paul Kalas, discussing Hubble’s first photo of an extrasolar planet,
- Visit NASA’s IYA website for events and information
- Monitor the status of the Kepler Mission to discover Earth-like planets
- Explore the Cosmos Portal:
‘The Cosmos Portal is working in concert with the “IAU Portal to the Universe” project to provide authoritative and trustworthy information combining scientific review with the power of Web-based collaboration.’ If you have questions, use their Ask an Astronomer link! - Take a look at Andrew Fraknoi’s two guides to IYA:
- Check out SPACEHACK: “a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. interact + connect with the space community”
- NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Read the press release about how NASA is celebrating IYA by releasing images from its Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory — to more than 100 planetariums, museums, nature centers and schools across the country.
