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David has been working in the field of astronomy education for over 35 years, including as a staffer and Editor-in-chief for Astronomy magazine. He’s recently co-authored a book with Queen guitarist Brian May about nebulae. We spoke about the book, astronomy, science education, and science in general.
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0:36 – David talks about how and why he go into writing on nebulae.
1:37 – David talks about Brian May’s involvement with the book.
3:09 – David talks about the focus of the book.
4:58 – David talks about where nebulae are located in the galaxy.
5:47 – David talks about the telescopes used to capture the images.
6:49 – David talks how much telescopes have captured images of nebulae.
8:14 – David talks about the goals of research on nebulae.
9:26 – David talks about how they chose the images for the book.
11:28 – David talks further about the team chose then final images for the book.
12:16 – David talks about the science of taking pictures of this nebulae.
14:17 – David talks about film versus digital in taking pictures of nebulae.
15:52 – David talks about what the text of the book discusses.
19:37 – David talks about possible life in the galaxy and universe.
23:07 – David talks about new technologies that will contribute to an understanding of the universe.
25:15 – David talks about science education, STEM, and STEAM.
31:10 – David talks about some important changes that could be made to help science education.
33:23 – David talks about the James Webb project.
34:29 – David talks about other astronomy related projects.
35:00 – David talks about his early interest in astronomy.
36:24 – David talks about growing up around aviation history in Ohio.
38:34 – David talks about the images in the book and the ones we likes the best.
41:42 – David talks about what he would like readers to take away from the book.
46:38 – David can be found on facebook, twitter, and instagram under David J. Eicher and on astronomy.com.
Links of interest
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/cosmic-clouds-3-d
https://www.facebook.com/davidjohneicher/
https://www.instagram.com/eicher.david/
https://twitter.com/deicherstar
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Guests: David J. Eicher
Host: Cris Alvarez
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