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From The Director

by Rex Parker, PhD director@princetonastronomy.org Next Meeting at the Planetarium – in Person Only – Bring Friends and Family!  We want to see you (and your family and friends) in person at the next monthly meeting of AAAP on Tuesday … Continue reading

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K2

by Theodore R Frimet twasi-now, or twasi-later Diapause. One mechanism that we can attribute to the halt in biological development due to unfavorable conditions. When your Sun goes Nova, that would entirely fit the bill, wouldn’t you think? Hmmm. Pull … Continue reading

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First Light with Stellar Spectroscopy

by Rex Parker Spectroscopy has always been an interesting and appealing branch of optics and chemistry ever since I made my first diffraction grating spectroscope for a junior-high science fair project. Of course spectroscopy has many scientific applications today, especially … Continue reading

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