Jay and Naomi Pasachoff reviewed, for the journal Nature (February 27, 2014 issue), the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, since it has a solar eclipse as an important part of its Prologue. Jay Pasachoff and art-historian Roberta J. M. Olson (New-York Historical Society) had the cover story about eclipses… Continue reading »
Over ten Williams astronomy and astrophysics alumni as well as former Keck Summer Fellows at Williams College joined Prof. Pasachoff and two current students, Allison Carter ’16 and Allen Davis ’14, at the American Astronomical Society’s 223rd meeting, held in National Harbor, Maryland (near Washington, DC) in January 2014. Pasachoff, Carter,… Continue reading »
January 8, 2013 press contact: James Kolesar, Public Affairs Office, Willliams College; [email protected] science contact: Jay Pasachoff, Caltech 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125; on sabbatical from Williams College; [email protected]. Cell phone contact: 617 285 6351 Embargo: until the session begins on Wednesday, January 9, at 10:30 am PST … Continue reading »
Pasachoff participated in Hubble Space Telescope 22-hour-long observations of Jupiter in an attempt to detect the transit of Venus that was visible there on September 20, 2012, and received a Space Telescope Science Institute grant from NASA in support. He reports on the Williams College team’s transit of Venus observations… Continue reading »
The largest ground-based optical telescope in the world is the 10.4-meter diameter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Karen Kwitter and colleagues (R. Corradi, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, B. Balick, U. Washington, and R. Henry, U. Oklahoma) have been awarded time on the GTC in the fall of fall… Continue reading »
Karen B. Kwitter, the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and five colleagues have been granted observing time with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to study how planetary nebulae have contributed to the amounts of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Milky Way Galaxy. Continue reading »