USAAAO Announces Olympiad Schedule for 2021

Paper Title: “An Increase in Small-planet Occurrence with Metallicity for Late-type Dwarf Stars in the Kepler Field and Its Implications for Planet Formation” Authors: Cicero X. Lu, Kevin C. Schlaufman, and Sihao Cheng. First Author’s Institution: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD…

Paper Title: HABITABLE ZONES IN BINARY STAR SYSTEMS: A ZOOLOGY Authors: Siegfried Eggl, Nikolaos Georgakarakos, Elke Pilat-Lohinger First Author’s Institution: Rubin Observatory / Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, 98015 WA, USA eggl@uw.edu Status: Published in MDPI Galaxies. Open access on arXiv. If you’re trying to look for another…

Title: A Wide Orbit Exoplanet OGLE-2012-BLG-0838Lb Authors: R. Poleski, B. S. Gaudi, Xiaojia Xie, A. Udalski, J. C. Yee, J. Skowron, M. K. Szymański, I. Soszyński, P. Pietrukowicz, S. Kozlowski, L.Wyrzykowski, K.Ulaczyk, C. Han, Subo Dong, K. M. Morzinski, J. R. Males, L. M. Close, A. Gould, R. W. Pogge…

If you’ve been through a storm, you may have gotten your power knocked out at one point or another. However, how often have you seen total power failure for a major part of a continent? Maybe once in a lifetime, such as the 1989 Quebec power outage. The culprit of…

The space sciences are arguably the most underrated out of all areas of science in many cases. This is quite surprising since many children are fascinated and inspired by things “out of this world”, from mysterious black holes to the other worlds in our solar system. The United States Astronomy…

The IOAA International Board is organising Global e-Competition on Astronomy and Astrophysics (GeCAA) as an alternate educational event for the benefit of students who were due to participate in IOAA this year. The event will be held in 2 categories, individual and group. Individual category will have one test based…