Well I had some time off at the end of the summer and now I am back at school. Alex and I had some good time to relax and do things that we wanted. It started off as a busy summer with me at NIST and Alex at camps, but ended very nicely with my friend Grzegorz's visit from Poland.
This year I am teaching astronomy for the first time and am having a great time. You never know when you start a new course or project, but this one is working out well. I have the background and the interest and everything is working out fine.
I have some links here to post from some brand new, and also ground breaking news regarding exo-planets (planets orbiting other stars).
Exo-planet "movie"
A comet on its way to hit the sun. This is kind of striking in its own way.
And finally, a group of people making a scale model of the solar system in the desert. Very nicely done.
Next week we will work on our equinox project, during which we will take measurements of the sun and the angle of the shadows that an object makes on the ground. We will share that data with some local teachers as well as a number of my friends from CERN!
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