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Many people think seasons are caused by changing distance between the Earth and Sun, an idea that can be reinforced by misleading textbook diagrams. But that’s not the case. To help set the record straight, CfA experts designed the ThinkSpace (Thinking...

On the 21st of August, 2017, there will be a Solar Eclipse. Along a swath of the US from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast, the Eclipse will appear as "total," meaning that the sky will acutally go dark, during the day, for a couple of minutes as the...

Read about the NSF-funded collaboration between Bucknell, Harvard and Microsoft is building better tools to introduce astronomical essentials. http://www.bucknell.edu/news-and-media/2016/november/astronomy-and-educ…...

What’s New in the American Astronomical Society WorldWide Telescope (September 2016) Most of the work under the AAS has been to migrate the advanced visualization functionality and tour authoring capability of the Windows Desktop Client to the Web Client...

Add Event Links Dates: Sep 21 to Dec 16, 2016 Winners to be notified by Dec 31, 2016 and publicly announced at AAS 229, Jan 3-7, 2017 in Grapevine, TX Full Details: AAS 2016 WWT Tour competition The American Astronomical Society has announced a...

WWTA's Life In the Universe Project (LITU) with Middle School students from Boston Public schools is featured in the Harvard Gazette. Read the full story: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/07/a-different-view-of-the-un...