Dr. Luisa Rebull

🔭🧪 SPHEREx data are at IRSA! irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/sph...

My #NITARP teachers are arriving soon! Can't wait!! ❤️ 🔭🎢

The ugly but direct link to the PDF application instructions is here:
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/ckeditor_ass...
This page:
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/resource_cat...
has a generalized collection of resources for applicants, including FAQs and a pointer to the application. /end

Whether or not we can run the program in 2026 is contingent on the availability of funds! The application itself consists of short answers to a few questions.

The program involves three trips — an American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in January 2026, to Pasadena, CA in summer 2026, and the AAS meeting in January 2027. The January 2026 meeting is in Phoenix, AZ; the January 2027 meeting is in Salt Lake City, UT. Most of the work is done remotely.

Most of our educators are HS classroom educators, but 8th grade, community college, and informal educators have participated. We are looking for educators who already know the basics of astronomy, & are interested in learning exactly how astronomy research is conducted. Educators must be US-based.

NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, gets teachers involved in authentic astronomical research. We partner small groups of educators with a mentor professional astronomer for an original research project.

NITARP - NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program

High school teachers! 🔭🧪🎢 Want to do real astronomy research with NASA astronomers? The application for NITARP for 2026 is now available! It's available at our website:
nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu
(thread with a bit more information follows)

my father once had to go through the lengthy tech support checklist with them (reboot this, reboot that, etc) even though he kept telling them, "the cable is physically detached from the house. the cable is in the street. the cable is literally being run over by cars. you need to send someone..."

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😲 Whoa! Why? I mean, I understand if whales are, you know, moving with the water (tides) but that's daily, not monthly. Are they following food that is responding to lunar illumination fraction at night? And *solar cycles*?? How interesting!!

:) :) I mean I do give talks, both at conferences and a la carte, but not this week, so my first thought was “what video did they find?” But it doesn’t seem like this is an astronomy conference. It looks like an interesting talk though!!

Not me! 😀 wrong tag…

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Three people in the vast open space of the desert southwest (Arches NP). All of us are wind blown and messy-haired but happy. 16 yo manchild, me, and husband

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

Three people in the vast open space of the desert southwest (Arches NP). All of us are wind blown and messy-haired but happy. 16 yo manchild, me, and husband

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll. No cheating!

This is me, wearing my IRSA hat. There are ... a LOT of videos showing how to use our web-based services to get data. I have updated a bunch. There are a bunch still to go! Check out the updated videos in this thread to see all the latest features. More videos coming as I can get to them. 🔭🧪🎢

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🔭🧪 This is wonderful. Bernie's got peanuts and a lunar scarf and a Lunar Trailblazer model! Go Lunar Trailblazer!!

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High school teachers and students continue doing real astronomy research It’s time! At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), running from January 12 through January 16 in National Harbor, MD, 14 astronomy educators and 14 of their students from the...

Here's the annual NITARP press release! (We couldn't put this out last week because we had a skeleton crew as a result of the fires, but it's still a really big deal how many people we had there.) www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/high-sc...

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🔭ZTF DATA RELEASE 23: Now available! ZTF is an optical time-domain survey covering the northern sky visible from Palomar. This adds 4 months of observations, up to 31 October 2024. 61.3e6 exposures, 178,000 co-added images, 937e9 sources, 4.97e9 light curves. irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/ztf...

Ok. It’s the last full day. 24 hours from now, I should be taxiing to the runway. I can do this. Let’s gooooo.
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#nitarp folks being interviewed by their hometown morning tv show! #aas245

Logo from AAS 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society at National Harbor, MD 12-16 January 2025

Here we gooooooo.... Taught all day yesterday, booth-ing it today, plus meetings and talks... woo hoo! #aas245

Shocked, shocked I am.