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Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was written by Constance Carter, former head of the Science Reference Section of the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Following her retirement from the Library after 50 years of service, she now volunteers for the Division full time. Connie is also author of a number of blog posts for Inside Adams including “The School …
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Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Dr. Padi Boyd, Chief of the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will speak at the Library of Congress about the thousands of planets discovered beyond our solar system and the evolving view …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Now that we’ve had the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, it’s time to move on to the next big event on NASA’s calendar, and that is the Grand Finale of the Cassini-Huygens Mission, a cooperative project of NASA, the …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos, Science
Posted by: Angel Vu
Every so often the Moon passes directly between the Sun and the Earth, casting a shadow on the Earth and briefly blocking much of the Sun’s light from reaching the Earth. This, we call a solar eclipse. Humans have long been fascinated by solar eclipses. Reports of occurrences come from ancient civilizations. Succeeding generations of astronomers would add their own records. By the 19th century though, astronomers were beginning to observe and measure the dimmer outer corona of the sun. Astronomers, eager to observe more solar eclipses, began to travel farther from their homes, traveling on expeditions to remote locations. In recent years eclipse viewing has grown to encompass the scientific community in many more countries who contribute their reports to the collective body of scientific knowledge and observations have become ever more sophisticated.
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Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. We’ve heard a great deal recently about Jupiter (Juno Mission) and Pluto (New Horizons), and soon the Science, Technology & Business Division will present a program on Saturn (Cassini), but what about Venus? Except for programs on the …
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Posted by: Angel Vu
This blog post was authored by Madison Arnold-Scerbo, a Library of Congress summer Junior Fellow in the Science Reference Section, and Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D., a Science Reference & Research Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Library of Congress. Madison and Tomoko are also authors of the blog post “Can Cats …
Posted by: Angel Vu
This blog post was authored by Madison Arnold-Scerbo, a Library of Congress summer Junior Fellow in the Science Reference Section, and Tomoko Y. Steen, Ph.D., a Science Reference & Research Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division of the Library of Congress. Many cat owners will tell you they can interpret the meaning of …
Posted by: Angel Vu
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 will be the first total solar eclipse visible in the contiguous United States since 1979 — and the first that has traversed the entire continent coast-to-coast since June 8, 1918. …
Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos
Posted by: Angel Vu
In Washington, D.C. a family of African American pharmacists set up business on U Street NW.
Posted in: African American History, Biography, Science, Washington and the Capitol