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Astronomy Day 2013 – Get out under the stars across Canada!

Astronomy Day is an international science education and outreach event head annually in April of each year. Many RASC Centres will be celebrating the day with special activities and events that you are welcome to come out to!


Highlights this year are an impressive waxing Moon, the planet Jupiter and the amazing planet Saturn.


Here are just some of the Astronomy Day events on offer from East to West across the country:


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RASC's Paul Delaney discusses NASA's comet-wrangling on CTV

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This morning on CTV's Canada AM, York University professor and longtime RASC member Paul Delaney sat down with host Marci Len to discuss NASA's ambitious plan to capture an asteroid. 

To watch Paul's interview, visit https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=903318

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Exciting updates from the upcoming General Assembly

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RASD Inducts New Member on CBC Radio

 

Two members of the RASD (the Royal Astronomical Society of Daves) were recently interviewed on CBC radio in Nova Scotia.

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The RASD inducted Dave XXX into the Society during the interview - a 1st for the RASD!

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Charlottetown Centre Observes an Elusive Comet, Major Anniversary

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Photo special to The Guardian by Clair Perry and Brian Gorveatt

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Time is running out for GA early bird prices!

 

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VP Colin Haig discusses the Planck "time machine" on CTV news

Thanks to new information from the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope, the universe has been revealed to be about 80 million years older than previously thought, is expanding slightly slower, has less dark energy, and contains more dark matter and ordinary matter.

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RASC's Dave Chapman to be interviewed on CBC Radio

Attention all Nova Scotia members!


Tune in to CBC Radio 1 at 5:50 p.m. today to hear Stephanie Domet chat with RASC member and Observer's Handbook Editor Dave Chapman.

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