Visual Astronomy Display for July 2017
Highlights…
- NASA JPL features a video about the Asteroid Hunters of the Catalina Sky Survey and PanSTARRS;
- Amy from Vintage Space explains why there are no stars visible in Apollo images taken on the Moon;
- Meet the newest astronauts at NASA!;
- Ariel Waldman shares the origin story of the Messier list, which she sums up as a “blacklist” of all the celestial objects that astronomers should avoid;
- The United States has had an operational robot on the surface of Mars or in orbit of Mars every single second for the last twenty years; and
- There are tons of excellent eclipse videos in this month’s playlist, all in preparation for the Solar Eclipse on August 20, 2017!
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Assistant Head Librarian at Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Katie Frey leads the development of the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus, a community supported linked data vocabulary for sorting, filtering, and exploring astronomical literature, data sets, images, etc.
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