I'm a science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System" who writes about over-the-horizon technology, primarily astronomy and space science.
I'm a science journalist and author of "Distant Wanderers: the Search for Planets Beyond the Solar System" who writes about over-the-horizon technology, primarily in the realms of astronomy and space science.
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The current Chair-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Dr Suleiman Baraka, is a well-known scientist with an international profile.
On March 2, 2012, the UNESCO Director-General signed at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris an agreement between UNESCO and three universities, respectively -- The Islamic University of Gaza, the Al Aqsa University and Al Azhar University -- for the establishment of a UNESCO Chair in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
Clarke, visionaries like Carl Sagan and movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey, " he studied aerospace and industrial engineering at Ryerson University, then physics and astronomy at the University of Toronto, before moving to Cornell to study space science, where he became special assistant to Sagan.
But Janna Levin, a physics and astronomy professor at Barnard College, says dramatic events in space do make a kind of music.
"You can show people the dot and tell them it's a planet, but when you can show them that you can actually see weather systems on that planet, then you've shown people you can do astronomy in New York City, " O'Gara told SPACE.com.
The new science of radio astronomy indicated that elements of the recipe were also floating around in space.
Sir Patrick wrote dozens of books on astronomy and his research was used by the US and the Russians in their space programmes.
"Anyone who had a passion for astronomy was welcomed by him... the effort he put in was absolutely unmatched, " said space scientist Dr Lucie Green.
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