By Alexa, age 11 This past August, I saw a total eclipse with my family on Snow King Mountain in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. We were given special eclipse glasses that blocked out almost all light, so we could only see…
Category: Astronomy
Sizing the Solar System
By Alexa (age 9, @KNEstemGirls) Do you think the planets are distributed evenly in our solar system? Until a week ago, I thought that was true, but then I did a fun, easy exercise that you can do too. All…
Watching the 2016 Solar Eclipse Live!
By Erika, age 12 What were you doing on March 8th at 8:38 pm? I pulled up NASA TV and watched a live solar eclipse from Southeast Asia! NASA reporters pointed out the solar flares that became more clear and…
AMNH Digital Flight School: Taking over the Hayden Planetarium
by Erika (age 12, @KNEstemGirls) This past summer, I took over the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History every morning for a week. All of the campers got to use the ridiculously expensive space navigating technology that our…
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Ashley Pagnotta the Awesome Astronomer
By Erika, age 12 Ashley Pagnotta is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). I nicknamed her "Eos Kablammo" after Eos, the Greek Goddess of the Stars, and the fact that she studies stars that explode. Why…
Why explore space?
by Erika (age 12, @KNEstemGirls) Space can be deadly and it costs billions of dollars for equipment and technology - $18 billion for NASA's budget in 2015 alone! So why do we do it? Curiosity? The need to learn? Fascination? I…
New Horizons meets Pluto
by Alexa (age 9, @KNEstemGirls) For 20 years, NASA has been planning and waiting for the exciting Pluto Flyby. Launching into space on January 19, 2006 - before I was born - New Horizons took 9 years to travel 7.8 billion…
