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Dark Night At Overlook Park In White Rock Tonight!

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The Triangulum Galaxy. Photo by Jeremy Best

Pajarito Astronomers News: 

Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Divisions have partnered up with the Pajarito Astronomers for the Dark Night program.

Anyone with an interest in star gazing and the chance to look through a telescope is invited to come out to Spirio Soccer Fields tonight, Oct. 22, at Overlook Park in White Rock.

Arrive at nightfall for viewing, or around sunset for setting up. Jupiter and Saturn will be visible most of the night as well as star clusters and deep space objects. If arriving at night and approaching Spirio Read More

Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition: Complex History Of WWII Japanese American Incarceration Camps Opens Sunday

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Pledging allegiance to the flag in 1942 at Raphael Weill Public School in San Francisco. Photo/Dorothea Lange, Courtesy of National Archives

NMHM News:

SANTA FE — New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) presents the Smithsonian traveling exhibition Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II, opening Oct. 23.

The exhibition examines the complicated history and impact of Executive Order 9066 that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor. It will be on view in the museum’s Herzstein Gallery through Dec. 31.

Righting a Wrong embraces themes that Read More

DNCU Celebrates International Credit Union Day

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DNCU News:

SANTA FE — Del Norte Credit Union (DNCU) joins more than 56,000 credit unions around the world to celebrate International Credit Union (ICU) Day® today, Oct. 20. The theme of ICU Day 2022 is “Empower Your Financial Future with a Credit Union.”

ICU Day highlights the many ways that credit unions across the world help members improve their financial health and well-being. Partnering with GreenPath, a national nonprofit financial counseling service, DNCU provides free information that covers a variety of financial issues affecting the New Mexico community, including housing services, Read More

NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Rose Visits Tajikistan

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NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)  Principal Deputy Administrator Frank Rose visited Tajikistan Oct. 6, met with senior officials, and participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Tajikistan’s Customs leadership at Fotehobod border crossing observing the delivery of newly deployed radiation detection equipment provided by NNSA.

The equipment will help combat smuggling of nuclear and radioactive material at an important international border crossing point.

During the ceremony, Rose Read More

Tellus Science Museum Acquires Recently Fallen Meteorite

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Tellus Curator Ryan Roney

Tellus Science Museum News:

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A meteorite exploded over south Georgia during the overnight hours of Sept. 26, 2022, spraying fragments across the small town of Junction City, GA, and Tellus Science Museum has already acquired a piece of the space rock.

At 12:04 a.m., EDT that morning, the meteorite burst into a bright fireball that lit up the sky over Talbot County. The meteor was captured flying across the sky by a camera operated by planetary astronomer Dr. Ed Albin. After analyzing radar data and watching the captured video, Dr. Albin and fellow meteorite Read More

Ship A Library … Make An African Child Smile … Unique Holiday Gift Idea!

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Students receiving books Saturday in rural Africa from the generous Los Alamos community. Courtesy/Sharon Allen
Students receiving books Saturday in rural Africa from the generous Los Alamos community. Courtesy/Sharon Allen

By SHARON ALLEN
African Library Project
Kiwanis member

Are you searching for just the right gift for that special someone who seems to have everything? So what if your first world problem could help solve a third world need? Kiwanis in partnership with the African Library Project is here to help relieve your stress! What if an entire library of books, benefitting Read More

Posts From Abroad: The Canals Of Venice, Italy

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Posts from abroad: The view during a visit Saturday in Venice, Italy. Venice is filled with winding canals, striking architecture and beautiful bridges. Photo by Liddie Martinez

Scene Saturday of a canal in Venice, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

Scene Saturday in Venice, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

Scene of a canal Saturday in Venice, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

Scene Saturday of striking architecture in Venice, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez Read More

Top NNSA Leaders Visit Kazakhstan, Discuss Continued Security, Nuclear Nonproliferation Cooperation

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Administrator Jill Hruby

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jill Hruby, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), and Frank Rose, Principal Deputy Administrator of the NNSA, completed a successful trip Oct. 5 to Kazakhstan.

The trip served as a chance for Administrator Hruby and Principal Deputy Administrator Rose to thank senior Kazakhstan government officials for the strong nonproliferation and nuclear security partnership that exists between the United States and Kazakhstan, which has resulted in many notable achievements including Project Sapphire, Read More

Posts From Abroad: Comunità Pastorale Santi Profeti

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Posts from abroad: Interior view of Comunità Pastorale Santi Profeti church Wednesday during a tour of Milan, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

View of Comunità Pastorale Santi Profeti church Wednesday during a tour of Milan, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

View of Comunità Pastorale Santi Profeti church Wednesday during a tour of Milan, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez

View of Comunità Pastorale Santi Profeti church Wednesday during a tour of Milan, Italy. Photo by Liddie Martinez Read More

AGU: Rainy Days On Track To Double In Arctic By 2100

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With rainy days in the Arctic predicted to double by 2100, ice could coat critical reindeer food sources more often, say the authors of a new study in Earth’s Future. Courtesy/Ninara/flickr

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, more snow than rain falls in the Arctic, but this is expected to reverse by the end of the century. 

A new study shows the frequency of rainy days in the Arctic could roughly double by 2100.

The Arctic is the northernmost region of the Earth, encompassing the Arctic Ocean and northernmost parts of Alaska, Canada, Russia, and Greenland. As the planet warms, more frequent and Read More