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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

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.