A screen in the Robert H.N. Ho Science Center serves as eyes and ears for students using the Apache Point Observatory telescope, traditionally controlled from New Mexico.
Spending two nights in a row obtaining near-infrared spectra of young stars may constitute unconventional activity to be done by undergraduate students during a Halloween weekend, but some of our astronomy students found it to be a fulfilling experience. The activity was a part of our astronomical techniques class — a required course for all physics-astronomy students — which teaches how to use telescopes to acquire and obtain relevant results from astronomical data. Read more