{"id":16016,"date":"2020-03-02T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:27:10","slug":"exploring-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2020\/exploring-the-night-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Night Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, February 27, we had a special astronomy festival for the whole family! People of all ages got to learn something new and inspiring about the way our understanding of the universe has grown, and also the ways that you can help scientists track changes in night sky visibility.<\/p>\n

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Globe At Night Neighborhood Science Kit<\/h2>\n

When Los Angeles Public Library got a grant for bringing Neighborhood Science to other libraries, Pasadena was chosen as one of the first libraries to get their Neighborhood Science kits. There are currently five Neighborhood Science kits<\/a>\u00a0at Pasadena that you can check out and use to conduct observations and collect data that will help scientists understand more about the way our climate is changing, our air and water quality is changing, etc.<\/p>\n

The Globe At Night kit<\/a>\u00a0includes a Sky Quality Meter for measuring the darkness in your area, and other tools and information. You can use a Sky Quality Meter to get a reading of the sky’s level of darkness, and then upload that reading to the databases that scientists are using to track changes. You can use either the Loss of the Night app (free, available for iPhones <\/a>and Android phones<\/a>) or the Globe at Night website<\/a> for uploading your data.<\/p>\n

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Here is my slideshow<\/a> with more information about the tools in our Globe at Night kit and how to use them:<\/p>\n

Measuring Light in the Night<\/a> <\/strong> from AnnMarie Ppl<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Exploring the Universe with the Spitzer Space Telescope<\/h2>\n

Peter Eisenhardt and Michael Werner worked for decades to develop and operate the Spitzer Space Telescope<\/a>, an infrared telescope that tells us more about stars and galaxies in our universe that normally can’t be seen. With that powerful telescope they were able to discover:<\/p>\n