


May 19, 2025
SSU students to build NASA satellite for 2025 launch into polar cusp
Sonoma State University students will build a small satellite, dubbed CubeSat, and launch it into space next year as part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.

May 19, 2025
SpaceX rocket launch puts Sonoma State University’s small satellite in orbit
Sonoma State University student Jesus Gonzalez watched Thursday morning as a powerful rocket took 10 minutes to lift his summer project off the ground in Cape Canaveral, Florida and into orbit about 250 miles above the Earth.

May 9, 2025
NASA Neurodiversity Network Intern Presents at AGU 2024 on Eclipse Megamovie 2024 Project Work
Written by Hannah Hellman NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) was funded by NASA to make STEM education—particularly informal STEM education—more accessible to populations underrepresented in STEM education and workforces. N3 was inspired by Professor Lynn Cominsky’s work with an autistic student in her community, Alex, who started an informal project in the Sonoma State University lab […]

May 9, 2025
NASA’s Swift and Fermi research missions continues
Written by Hannah Hellman NASA’s Swift and Fermi high-energy astrophysics research missions continue to help us discover the most energetic happenings in our Universe. Swift is celebrating its 20th anniversary in March and EdEon’s graphic artists, Aurore Simonnet, continues to inspire with her creative and artistic renditions of scientific discoveries from these missions. Scientists using […]

December 8, 2023
Eclipse Megamovie All Volunteer Meeting, December 18th, 2023
The volunteer meeting will take place on Monday, December 18th at 5pm. We are also launching our office hours beginning that day, so we will be available 30 minutes before the start of the meeting to answer questions and chat about the project. This meeting in particular will feature a presentation given by EM2024 Science […]

November 2, 2023
Building The Mount
Written by Hannah Hellman When Laura Peticolas submitted the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) grant for funding in 2022, we proposed to give away 100 3-D printed equatorial mounts to ensure that we would receive high quality photographs of the Sun’s corona. For our project’s purposes, “high quality” means that we would be able to reliably […]

October 18, 2023
Here’s How to Help NASA During the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
In this article, Dr. James Riordan discusses several different citizen science projects in which citizen scientists can participate during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Megamovie is featured there, as well as Soundscapes and SunSketcher.

October 10, 2023
Into the Dawn: Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Eclipse
Written by Hannah Hellman Photo credit: David Rogers / Solar Eclipse, Richmond / CC BY-SA 2.0 On June 19th, 1927, Virginia Woolf traveled more than 219 miles, from London to North Yorkshire, to see a total solar eclipse. In her essay, “The Sun and the Fish,” written in 1928 (one year after her experience), she refers […]

October 2, 2023
Eclipse Megamovie has launched on NASA’s Citizen Science page!
NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project is back for the 2024 total solar eclipse—and is seeking volunteers! During the four minutes of this solar experience, the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, will become visible. It’s a rare time when we are able to take photographs of the corona from Earth on a large scale.

June 19, 2023
NASA Funds Citizen Science Project at SSU
Five years after partnering with Google and inspiring citizen scientists to journey out to view the Great American total solar eclipse, the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) team has been funded by NASA to bring high-quality DSLR imagery to the forefront of solar coronal studies.

October 4, 2022
SSU Physics Graduate Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship
Sonoma State graduate Alex Vasquez, an autistic STEM student who was also a key inspiration for the N3 program, won a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship – becoming only the second SSU physics graduate in the Department’s history to receive that prestigious award.

September 16, 2022
NASA Intern Develops DIY Ocean Instrument Prototype
During the Summer of 2022, OCEANOS teamed up with the NASA Neurodiversity Network (N3) to provide support and mentorship to a student intern in Puerto Rico. N3 provides a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum.

September 13, 2022
Neurodiverse Youth Build & Launch Rockets with NASA’s Neurodiversity Network
From August 8-12, 2022, NYSCI hosted a camp for five autistic middle-school students to introduce them to rocket science through a combination of hands-on activities and a longer culminating project.

July 13, 2022
N3 SciAct
Check out the video showcasing NASA’s Neurodiversity Network Year 1 accomplishments!

August 11, 2021
Google Launches Program To Hire More People With Autism
Google is teaming up with Stanford University in an effort to make its workforce more neurodiverse.

July 28, 2021
NASA Celebrates National Intern Day 2021
Through social media takeovers and question-and-answer sessions, podcast episodes, and more, NASA is offering a behind-the-scenes look at how interns participate in agency projects and the best routes to a NASA internship. Current interns, mentors, and internship coordinators from across the agency will share their experiences and advice for those interested in pursuing a career […]

April 6, 2021
Stanford Neurodiversity Presentation
SSU student Alex Vasquez and Prof. Lynn Cominsky will be presenting in the Stanford Neurodiversity K-12 Education and Advocacy Network seminar series on Thursday 4/8 from 4 – 5 pm PDT. We will be discussing our new NASA program to support neurodiverse learners (NASA’s Neurodiversity Network or N3) that was inspired by Alex’s educational journey […]

March 9, 2021
Celebrating Neurodiversity Week
March 15th – 21st is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a week to promote inclusive environments and to recognize the important contributions of neurodiverse people. EdEon is working with NASA to develop resources for STEM Education through NASA’s Neurodiversity Network, N3. You can learn more about this week and effort at www.neurodiversity-celebration-week.com, which also includes resources for […]

January 26, 2021
Sonoma State Receives NASA Grant to Engage Autistic Learners
NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) aims to broaden participation in NASA programs to include autistic and other learners with neurological differences. As part of NASA’s Science Activation Program, which is composed of teams across the nation to help learners of all ages and abilities do science, N3 will use specific learning modules to support autistic learners with […]

November 8, 2019
Cube satellite built by SSU students set to orbit earth and collect data on vegetation health
A student-built satellite about twice the size of a Rubik’s Cube has passed a series of tests to travel to space this December as part of a NASA-funded project involving three universities including Sonoma State. Built in partnership with Santa Clara University and Morehead State University in Kentucky, the “EdgeCube” satellite is scheduled to fly […]

November 8, 2019
“Nunca lo creí posible”: un estudiante hispano cumple su sueño de enviar un satélite al espacio
A los 12 años, Jesús González llegó a Estados Unidos procedente de Guanajuato, México. Hoy, a sus 21 años, está a punto de convertirse en ingeniero electrónico, pero su empuje y dedicación lo han llevado mucho más lejos. Hace unos días, la NASA lanzó un cohete con un satélite que él y sus compañeros desarrollaron […]