Message from CFHT Librarian, Liz Bryson:
CFHT Community Outreach Recent Past Events November 15, 2007: The Girls in Math, Science and Engineering (GEMS) career day was in Kona. November 17, 2007: 2ND Annual RoboFest at the University of Hawaii, Hilo Gymnasium. We were present as well as the CFHT sponsered team from Waimea. Great fun was had by all. Go to the webpage for more information and pictures. December 1, 2007: Our Christmas Star Party was be held just after the Parade of Lights in Waimea. Due to the wet weather, telescope viewing was not possible. We did have some refreshments, and viewing of the remote observing room used to contact and communicate with the observers at the summit. And we had the "Ask an Astronomer" desk for those who had questions about astronomy. January 26, 2008: The Ellison Onizuka Science Day was be held at the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus. This day included making "space dust" for the kids. Upcoming Events March 8, 2008: Hawaiian Family AfFair, at the University of Hawaii, Hilo Plaza. This is a Na Pua No'eau sponsored event. March 28, 2008: There will be a talk titled, "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" by Dr. Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology. It will be on the University of Hawaii, Hilo campus in the University Classroom building, Room 100 at 7:00pm. April 12, 2008: Healthy Keiki Fest in Kamuela, HI at the Parker Ranch Center. Watch for details in the West Hawaii Today Newspaper. May 3, 2008: AstroDay 2008 at the Prince Kuhio Plaza in Hilo, HI, 10am to 5pm. Various Tours of the summit coming up for scientists, teachers and students.
CFHT in the News This is an article in French about Brett Gladman and his search for comets. Cosmologists Unfold the Dark Cosmic Web "Astronomers have known for some time that the Universe is full of mysterious dark matter. This invisible matter forms giant filaments, sheets, and clusters. How exactly this dark "Cosmic web" is distributed throughout the Universe has long eluded scientists." Cosmologists Unfold the Dark Cosmic Web The Spinning Magnet of Sun-like Stars "Stars like the sun host a spinning engine - their magnetic fields. These magnetic fields are similar to those of a bar magnet, except that they flip their north and south poles regularly, every 11 years in the case of the Sun. For the first time, an international team of astrophysicists has just caught one star other than the sun - tau Bootis A - in the process of flipping its north and south magnetic poles." The Spinning Magnet of Sun-like Stars A Rare Quartet of Stars May Unlock Secrets of Stellar Evolution "Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. The Quartet apears asa speck of light even when viewed with the world's most powerful telescopes but its spectrum reveals not one, but four distinct stars arranged in 2 pairs." The Eerie, Bizarre Sounds of the Saturnian System NASA posted some wonderfully trippy sounds collected from Saturn and its moons. For example, one is the sound of winds on Titan, another is magnetometer data from Enceladus translated into audio. The weird recordings remind me of avant-garde electroacoustic music from the 1950s and 1960s. Nova's Science Now: Asteroid Will a doomsday rock the size of the Rose Bowl hit Earth in 2036? On this website from Science Now you will find a film clip of the program segment and added features including:
Galaxiki Boldly going where no site has gone before, Galxiki has created "a fictional online galaxy (that) anyone can edit," regardless of Star Fleet accreditation. Membership is free, "science fiction lovers and creative people are welcome," and anyone who has ever stared longingly at the stars should come aboard. The site has only been live for about two months, but it already boasts hundreds of members and intricately mapped cosmos. To think that something like the Hausa solar system - with its 2 planets, 166 moons, and usual crowd of asteroids, comets, and interplanetary dust exists only in the realm of Galaxiki left us a little dizzy. And that was before we examined each planet's atmosphere, mass, axial tilt, and temperature. Admitted ground-gazers that we are, it was astonishing for us to see the complexity and realism of this world. To the astronomy enthusiasts, professional and amateur alike it must feel like home." Upcoming Astronomical Events
All times listed above are HST unless otherwise indicated. The link below contains many calendars and includes a nice section on astronomical events. Check it out!
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