Even 14 months after his death: still immerses the IYA 2009 every few days in any message, where it usually refers to projects that were initiated as part of Astronomy year. • The EU supports UNAWE , a program that existed before the IYA was one of its cornerstones But more Press Releases to EUNAWE here, here , here and here . Scopes • Galileo - a-IYA Cornerstone - and UNAWE make headlines in Venezuela and in the Philippines the Galileo scopes have arrived. • The Cosmic Diary, another IYA-Cornerstone is now for the SETI Institute moved and would now like to expand . • The Galileo Teacher Training Program - a cornerstone - is active in Latin America .
• The Proceedings of the IYA-session "Accelerating the rate of Astronomical Discovery" of the IAU GA 2009 are freely available : exciting papers on the nature of astronomical discovery (with wonderful anecdotes, such as the pulsar contribution). The Proceedings of the 2009's are Women in Astronomy conference since . • In a day-care center in Halle, an experimental project conducted further, thanks to a donation bank, and - inspired by memories of IYA's - is also a telescope ago. • A children's book with ethnic Astro Stories is in Nova Scotia, Canada, published , a IYA Legacy. • Two mountains in New Zealand - in the Kepler Mountains! - were named after astronomer - an initiative from the IYA, which has now led to success. • 'Friday Nights, Celestial Lights' in Texas since the IYA at the Univ. of TX at San Antonio offered every month. • And a long interview with Pedro Russo, the former IYA Coordinator, and a greeting from him UNAWE as the new manager.
Astronomy & public worldwide: the 1. Episode of the revamped online sternstunde with others this blogger, the 10th CAP Journal and the first Newsletter the Astronomy Outreach Foundation (which seems to be borne mainly by the U.S. trade Astro but is non-profit). • Thoughts on Twitter in astronomy (somewhat confusing). • In India, children can win a trip to Space Camp in the United States. • Astro-teacher training in the U.S. with NASA's help. • In Boston, the Planetarium has been upgraded ( more ), in Stuttgart, working in the , plus planetarium history general. • In Canberra create a National Astronomy Museum for Australia. • There are impressions of the great BBC TV Astro 3-piece in January's here, here , here, here and here (from here ). • What is astrobiology, you can now read in a comic (well, 'graphic novel'). • The DPG promotes with the Einstein-Slam a physics version of the ever popular Science Slams. • And a duet with violinist radioactive particles from space.
Citizen Science with new successes: The Planet Hunters have in the Kepler-light curves exoplanet candidates discovered escaped the Kepler software; also on the great Kepler PK the PH were mentioned (about minutes 43 to 46). • The Milky Way Project imagines with a poster and a best-of of cosmic bubbles. • Article of Tom Krajci , the place for telescopes is available, and various Pro / Am ideas. • A price for an amateur that helps professionals. • General praise for amateur astronomers , In this paper and Blog . • AAVSO 100 years - even the kind of citizen-science . • An amateur as a co-discoverer exoplanets - here is the paper . • A 10-year-old a supernova what eg here, here , discovered here , here and here caused a stir. • Citizen Science at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago . • The Virtual Observatory for all .
light pollution as a problem is not convincing everyone : Sometimes it comes to counter-movements like now in Arizona (with heavy reader discussion)! In California, they do have 's is darker. • The Channel Island of Sark is the first "Dark Sky Iceland" the world, and everybody has a home here: Article here, here , here, here , here and here - in the UK is Dark Sky tourism on the rise. • In a survey Bonner citizens to saving ideas for decorative lighting also been mobilized. • A study on Night Light & cancer (also summarized here), in the opinion of medical experts but not particularly convincing. • Fewer lamps on a highway in Maryland.
Otherwise is now the Year of Chemistry - but has who's noticed? In an Austrian this article has the merit of IYA as before. • And a study on science communication in Germany " ends with optimism.
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