USA Hands-On Universe

Second place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Galilean moons: Jupiter Moon’s Movie2, by Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo, and Carl Pennypacker, United States of America. See https://iau.org/public/videos/detail/ann21047e/

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IASC started in October 2006 with 5 high schools from the United States. Today, it has grown to 500 schools in more than 65 countries. As of today, IASC

Dear Global Hands-On Universe Teachers and Colleagues,

We announce the Global HOU Conference in Honolulu, with Hawaii and International teacher training on August 3-5 and then the Global HOU Annual Collaboration

The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) made its first TNO discovery today!! Congratulations go to C.-C.Hsueh, J.-J. Ji, Y.-H. Lin, H.-C. Hsieh & A. Hoyle from the National Dali

HOU Founder Carl Pennypacker has been working on a concept for a fire detection satellite:

2013-10-22.  Time is ripe for fire detection satellite, say Berkeley scientists. [ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/10/22/time-is-ripe-for-fire-detection-satellite/. Robert Sanders, UC

2011 December 8. Nobel Lectures in Physics. HOU-founder Carl Pennypacker is a colleague of 2011 Physics Nobel prize-winner Saul Perlmutter. In December 2011, Carl and his wife accompanied the Perlmutters

2012 April 21. Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) Discovery. Tom Vorobjov directs the IASC Data Reduction Team (IDaRT). Using images from Bob Holmes of the Astronomical Research Institute (Westfield, IL) dated April

USA Hands-On Universe website is now a sub-site of Global Hands-On Universe.