The IAU OAD has published its latest newsletter for the January to March 2022 period. Highlights in the newsletter: 2022 Annual Call for Proposals Deadline: May 31 Resources to organize your own Astro4dev hackathon Astrophotography contest by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) Telescopes for All competition by the IAU Office for Astronomy […]
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In a new OAD video commemorating our 10th anniversary, the global Astro4Dev community look back at 10 years of OAD, talk about why they use astronomy and what it means to our world. During the course of 2021, we interviewed a few of the stakeholders and people involved in the work of the OAD in […]
The IAU OAD has published its latest newsletter for the January to June 2021 period. Highlights in the IAU OAD Newsletter #28 for Jan-Jun 2021: Call for IAU OAD Fellows Article on the threat posed by COVID-19 to basic science funding 10 years of Astronomy for Development New partnerships, meeting highlights (with links to recordings), […]
“Wanda speaks about the wonderful and rarely-practiced skill of listening to the stars. To help her audience ‘see’ the world as she does, she encourages them to don blindfolds and listen to clips of the sounds stars make. An amazingly inspiring talk by an incredibly driven women who, regardless of her circumstance, has done incredible […]
Read the full text of the speech below and download the .pdf of the presentation here. For a translation of this text in Spanish and a discussion about it, please follow this link. “Astronomy for Humankind – let’s explore this. Here we have the Earth. What a place! The consolidated image of everything that we […]