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☄️Exploring Comet 3I/ATLAS✨
This live Gemini North session gave us a closer look as Bryce Bolin, Laura-May Abron, & Matthew Belyakov observed Comet 3I/ATLAS, an object that’s traveled for billions of years through interstellar space🪐
🎥:httpshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW0chiPZyYM&feature=youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
💫Learn Python from the stars!💫
Join us for PyaR: Python and Research Tutorials, a hands-on coding workshop built from real tools astronomers used to study the Andromeda Galaxy 🌌

📅 Dec 9-10 | 🕘 9 AM-Noon PT
💻 No experience needed - just curiosity!

🔗: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
☄️🔭 Journey to the Early Solar System with Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon❄️

#InCaseYouMissedIt

In this session, we got to get a behind-the-scenes look at planetary defense and how comets help us understand our own origins 🌍

🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYL...
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
UPDATE: Due to weather issues, our session has been moved to November 26th, so make sure to make your calendars!

☄️ A Rare Interstellar Visitor! 🌌
Join for a special live event to observe Comet 3I/ATLAS using Gemini North!

📅 Nov 26 | 4 AM HST 6 AM PT

🔗 Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Exploring Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Rare Encounter with an Interstellar Visitor. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
The Shadow the Scientists initiative is offered by a team at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). *Note: StS Zoom sessions will be recorded and the recordings will be posted online. Join ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
☄️ Exploring Comet 3I/ATLAS - A Rare Interstellar Visitor! 🌌

Join @GeminiObservatory for a special live event as Bryce Bolin, Laura-May Abron, and Matthew Belyakov observe Comet 3I/ATLAS using Gemini North!

📅 Nov 25 | 4 AM HST 6 AM PT

🔗 Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Journey to the Early Solar System! 🌌

Join @ucsc & @nasa astronomers live from Maunakea’s NASA Infrared Telescope Facility to explore Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon - a frozen relic from the birth of our solar system! 🪐

📅 Nov 7 | 2:30 PM HST | 4:30 PM PT

🔗 Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🌕🔭 International Observe the Moon Night
We explored helium in the Moon’s exosphere with UTSA PhD student Patrice Smith, w/ UV spectra from NASA’s LRO to spot invisible gas, and talked Artemis, polar water ice, and why the Moon–Earth size ratio matters for habitability!

🎥Watch: youtu.be/zRPW8gaLYHI
October 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Astronomers at Gemini South caught stunning last looks at 3I/ATLAS, the 3rd known interstellar visitor! 🚀 See its glowing tail, learn how spectra reveal its chemistry, and relive the moment CN gas was spotted

🎥 Watch the full recording and experience this rare event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__A...
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🌕✨ LIVE Astronomy with Gemini North!

Join @GeminiObs for real-time sky exploration from Maunakea 🌌
✨Gemini uses queue mode, adapting in real time!

🔭 Speckle stars & hunt planets with GMOS, IGRINS-2 & MAROON-X!

📅 Aug 31 | 7:30 PM HST
📅 Sept 1 | 5:30 AM UT

🔗 Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
✨🔭Gemini User Night - From Queue Plan to First Photons 🌌

#InCaseYouMissedIt

Go behind the scenes as Gemini staff plan the night, react to real-time conditions, and swap instruments on the fly.

🎥Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09bY...
August 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
🌠✨Processing Stellar Data with J.D. Armstrong - Now on YouTube!🔭

In this special workshop dedicated to the Ethiopian Space Science Society, J.D. walks through foundational data-processing techniques using variable and binary-star data with free tools 🧪💻

🔗Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdri...
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
☄️In Case You Missed It: Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

We tracked a rare visitor (only the 3rd interstellar object ever!) in a crowded Sagittarius field, watched it move ~1″/min, and used Y/J/H/K near-IR filters and difference imaging to search for ice!

🔗YouTube Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41N...
August 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
☄️A rare interstellar visitor is in our solar system-you can watch it LIVE.
📅 July 10 | 8 PM HST
📅 July 11 | 6 AM UTC
🔭 Join astronomer Bryce Bolin as he observes comet 3I/ATLAS w/ the Keck Observatory.
Only the third object seen from beyond our solar system!

🔗Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
🌌 Something huge is forming at the edge of the universe, but where are the galaxies?
Join us for a live session from the Magellan Telescope as astronomers track galaxy formation with FourStar infrared imaging!
Don’t miss it!

🗓️ July 10 | 9 PM HST
🗓️ July 11 | 7 AM UTC

🔗 ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
July 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🌕✨ LIVE Astronomy with Gemini North!

Join the Gemini North Telescope team for real-time sky exploration from Maunakea 🌌

🔭 Speckle stars & hunt planets with Alopeke, GMOS, IGRINS-2 & MAROON-X!

📅 June 11 | 8PM HST | 11PM PT
📅 June 12 | 6AM UT

🔗Register Now: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
June 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
✨LIVE Astronomy with Gemini North!

Join @GeminiObs for real-time sky exploration from Maunakea🌌

🔭 Featuring GMOS, IGRINS-2 & MAROON-X, powerful tools for deep space + planet hunting

📅 May 25 | 8 PM HST | 11 PM PT
📅 May 26 | 6 AM UTC

🔗 Register now! ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
🌌What’s faint, huge, and full of secrets?
👻Ultra-diffuse galaxies in the Virgo Cluster!
Join live sessions as scientists use @KeckObservatory to weigh mysterious galaxies to uncover hidden dark matter!

Session 2: May 19 | 8:30 PM HST | May 20 | 11:30 PM PT | 6:30 AM UT:
ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
🔍Ever seen glass made LIVE? Now’s your chance🧪
Watch as Dr. Steve Feller and Coe College students take us through crafting a custom sodium germanate glass, right in the lab!
🛰️From your screen to outer space: learn how glass powers telescopes, batteries, and spacecraft windows
🎥: youtu.be/XSVv7Mt1kpw
May 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
What do bent light and racing stars tell us about the universe?
✨We found out, and now you can too on YouTube🌌
From distorted galaxies to velocity maps of stars, this is one cosmic puzzle you don’t want to miss
🔍How do we measure gravity from afar?
🌀Can we map invisible mass?
🎥: youtu.be/XSVv7Mt1kpw
May 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🌕 What’s hiding in the Moon’s darkest craters?
Spoiler: Ice. And a lot of science.❄️

Join us for a live session on NASA’s LRO & the LAMP instrument, guided by UTSA PhD student Patrice Smith!

🗓️ April 26 | 6 PM HST | 9 PM PT | 11 PM CT
🗓️ April 27 | 4 AM UTC

🔗Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s #GlobalAstronomyMonth! 🌍✨

This April, @shadowscientists.bsky.social invites you to explore astronomy from anywhere: your home, your classroom, or your screen.

The universe belongs to all of us. 🔭💫

#GAM2025 #AstronomyForAll #STEAM #ShadowTheScientists #GlobalAstronomyMonth
April 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
💫Join us on April 22 for a live session on mapping star velocities in gravitational lensing galaxies!🌀

📅 April 22, 2025
🕒 3:00 AM HST | 6:00 AM Pacific | 1:00 PM UTC

🔗Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ShadowTheScientists #GAM2025
April 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
🚀Explore the Cosmos LIVE with Gemini North🌌
Join the Gemini North staff for real-time sky exploration using GMOS, IGRINS-2, & MAROON-X🔭
📅April 17 | 7:30 PM HST | 10:30 PM PT
📅April 18 | 5:30 AM UTC

🔗Register: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎥Can’t make it live? Session will be recorded and uploaded!
April 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM