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We’re being invaded by ASTRONOMERS!

UMM is hosting the SCOPES conference (Small Campus Observatories as Promoters of Education in Science) today through Saturday, so 43 astronomers are going to be roaming the campus and talking about telescopes and education.

There is a public lecture tonight, too. Check out the program!

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  2. robro says

    I saw “Scopes Conference” and thought “Monkey Trial” and that I was about to get treated to the latest inanities from Ken Ham. But astronomy is a lot more interesting.

  3. weylguy says

    When Einstein was staying in Pasadena in 1933, he dropped by our local community college to dedicate its new observatory. Too bad UMM doesn’t have someone equally famous to visit yours.

  4. Reginald Selkirk says

    Upcoming Telescope Predicted to Discover Millions of Hidden Solar System Objects

    A new observatory perched high in the Chilean Andes is about to blow the lid off our solar system—and scientists say it’s going to be like switching from a black-and-white TV to 4K color.

    The National Science Foundation and Department of Energy project, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, is slated to begin operations later this year.

    Armed with the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy and a sweeping, ultra-sensitive telescope, the observatory is expected to discover millions of previously unknown asteroids, comets, and other planetary leftovers—some of which venture uncomfortably close to our own planet…

  5. says

    @2 robo beat me to it: ‘I saw “Scopes Conference” and thought “Monkey Trial” ‘
    before reading his comment I thought:
    Hmmm, Scopes Conference! Sounds like they are just monkeying around.

    then I read:
    @4 Reginald Selkirk: ‘Upcoming Telescope Predicted to Discover Millions of Hidden Solar System Objects’
    So, I was wondering if they are going to get a really good look at uranus?

    Sorry, given all the devastation we are experiencing, I’ve got to resort to some silly humor, or I’ll be immersed in anger and sorrow.

  6. kukulkan says

    Hold on a minute. An American funded project named after a woman? Surely Cheetolini will declare the naming of the “Vera C Rubin Observatory” to be in violation of his anti-DEI agenda, and order it be renamed after a white Christo-fascist male.

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