For the past few years, the UMBC Observatory was happy to host mentees and mentors from the UMBC REACH Initiative. REACH is a mentorship program at UMBC for women who are interested in pursuing...
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No recap meeting for the 11/14/2019 Open House. We will try to accomplish any discussion or to-dos via GroupMe/email.
posted 8 days ago
Yesterday (11/13/2019) the group met to outline how best to deliver topics relating to cosmic distances and the development of our cepheid project.
posted 8 days ago
As discussed, this meeting is to prepare for the 11/14 Open House: Planets and Moons. If time permits, let's look over the following recent paper:...
posted 18 days ago
Tonight we discussed Fermi's Paradox, the question asked by Enrico Fermi of why, if there is life out there and it is easy to make, have we not yet learned of this life or have interacted with it?...
posted 7 months ago
The space agency of Japan has successfully used an explosive to create a crater on an asteroid to collect samples. NASA has also dropped an explosive on an asteroid before, but was unable to...
posted 8 months ago
Thanks to everyone who attended our open house tonight! Tonight we had a discussion on black holes where we first looked at how physicists began to approach gravity, invisible objects, and black...
posted 8 months ago
The Hubble Telescope caught the asteroid Gault disintegrating, a rare occurrence for asteroids. It was caused by its superfast spin rate. This event provided a really great image of what it looks...
posted 8 months ago
Thank you to everyone who showed up for March 8th's Open House! Tonight our topic was the International Space Station. We discussed the purpose of the ISS, requirements for the astronauts, and...
posted 9 months ago
At tonight’s open house we discussed Comets. We looked at the properties of comets, describing each of the three components (the nucleus, coma, and tails). We then discussed and looked at a couple...
posted 12 months ago