Stories about "Astronomy"
Bates at Night: Astronomy Extravaganza

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:48 pm

Students "spread the excitement" to local schoolchildren at the annual Astronomy Extravaganza.

Look What We Found: Aleks Diamond-Stanic’s plate with 1,400 holes

Thursday, June 8, 2017 1:55 pm

While it looks like a pizza screen, the plate was used by astronomers to collect spectra from objects throughout the universe.

Soderberg ’00 and López-Carr ’93 selected to elite NAS symposium for best and brightest young scientists

Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:00 am

The NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science program invites only A-list young researchers. It's also a predictor of later success.

Museum of Art to connect L-A seventh-graders with space station

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:49 pm

The Museum of Art will give L/A seventh-graders the opportunity to talk with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

Science journalist offers astrophotography lecture, wilderness workshop

Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:28 pm

Science journalist Babak Tafreshi leads a wilderness photography workshop and offers a lecture related to the Museum of Art exhibition "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography".

Astronomer, artist to give presentations related to ‘Starstruck’

Monday, October 1, 2012 1:47 pm

Up next in a series of talks connected with the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition "Starstruck" are presentations by an astronomer from Yale and by an artist showing work in the show.

Museum of Art offers lectures, star parties and more as ‘Starstruck’ shines on

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 8:58 am

The Bates College Museum of Art presents lectures, star-viewing parties and other public programs throughout the autumn in conjunction with the remarkable exhibition "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography."

Good heavens! Museum of Art offers one of the first major exhibitions of astrophotography

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 3:49 pm

The headlining exhibition at the Museum of Art this summer, "Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" is among the first major exhibitions examining astrophotography as an art genre.

Bates invites public to safe viewing of transit of Venus

Friday, June 1, 2012 3:13 pm

Bates invites Lewiston-Auburn residents to a campus viewing of Tuesday's highly anticipated transit of Venus.

Jeffrey Kenney
Astronomer to bring complexities of galactic interaction down to earth in talk

Monday, November 7, 2011 1:57 pm

Jeffrey Kenney '80, an astronomy professor at Yale University, discusses interactions within galactic clusters Nov. 10 in a talk intended for a mainstream audience.

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