by Renae Kerrigan | Jan 5, 2021 | Live events
Alysha Shugart is a Science Operations Specialist at Gemini South. It is her job to operate the telescope or take astronomical data with different instruments, assist astronomers, and analyze the data. She works on many different aspects of observing with the massive...
by Renae Kerrigan | Dec 29, 2020 | Live events
Real People, Big Astronomy: Dr. Luis Chavarría Garrido Dr. Luis Chavarria Garrido is the Director of the Astronomy Program for the Chilean Government’s Ministry of Science. He carried out his doctoral thesis at Harvard and postdoctoral studies in Chile, France, and...
by Renae Kerrigan | Dec 22, 2020 | News
Real People, Big Astronomy: Celia Verdugo December 30, 3 PM Chile / 1 PM EST / Noon CST / 10 AM PST Celia Verdugo is an astronomer and Data Analyst at ALMA. It is her job to celebrate the ALMA radio telescope and take data for other astronomers. She works side by side...
by Renae Kerrigan | Nov 30, 2020 | News
Big Astronomy will be featured at ASP 2020: A Virtual Conference! We will be live streaming the Big Astronomy planetarium show at 6 PM PST, followed by a live discussion with the project leadership team. Thursday, December 3, 6pm PST / 9pm EST / 11pm Chile Hosted by...
by Renae Kerrigan | Nov 25, 2020 | Live events
Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a program of the NOIRLab, is a complex of astronomical telescopes and instruments located in the remote foothills of the Andes mountains in Chile. The star of CTIO is the 4.0-meter Blanco telescope which features the...
