Dr. Tim Hamilton, professor of physics and director of the Clark Planetarium at Shawnee State University, will present a lecture entitled "Using Gravitational Lenses as Natural Telescopes." This event is… Read More »September Meeting: Using Gravitational Lenses as Natural Telescopes
Astronomy Day is a biannual event held in the United States and other countries. It is intended to promote interest in astronomy and interaction between the general public and various… Read More »Astronomy Day
Dr. Maria Hamilton, professor of physics at Marshall University, will present a lecture entitled "The Curious Incident of the Neutron Star Crashing at Night." Dr. Hamilton is the recipient of… Read More »October Meeting: The Curious Incident of the Neutron Star Crashing at Night
Sue Bassett will present a lecture entitled "Fantastic Beasts and Why You Can't Find Them: An Astronomical View of Ice Age Extinctions." This event is free and open to the… Read More »November Meeting: Fantastic Beasts and Why You Can’t Find Them
Alessondra Springmann is a planetary science PhD candidate at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, studying meteorites, comets, and asteroids. She will be discussing her previous work at… Read More »January Meeting: The Legacy of Arecibo’s Planetary Radar System
Anwar Al-Mallah, vice president of the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt, will be demonstrating the use of 3D computer models provided by NASA in computer aided design applications (e.g., Blender, formZ,… Read More »February Meeting: 3D Computer Models Provided by NASA and Their Use in CAD Programs
As part of Women's History Month, Corrinne Carter and Sue Bassett will present a talk entitled "The Harvard 'Computers' and the Foundations of Modern Astronomy" (computers was the early 20th… Read More »March Meeting: Women in Astronomy
Kevin A. Wilson, PhD, will be presenting a talk on amateur radio astronomy and the DIY radio telescope he built to study the hydrogen emissions from the Milky Way. This… Read More »April Meeting: Amateur Radio Astronomy
Dr. Aaron W. Breneman of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will speak on Goddard's sounding rocket program and the work he's doing on the Endurance rocket to measure the… Read More »May Meeting: NASA Goddard Sounding Rocket Program
The ASG's summer film festival returns with The Martian. This highly popular film stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars. Praised for its special effects and mostly accurate… Read More »ASG Summer Film Festival: The Martian
The Astronomical Society of Greenbelt has been chosen as a community partner of NASA to celebrate the release of the first scientific images from the James Webb Space Telescope, which… Read More »Webb Space Telescope First Images Celebration
On Thursday, August 25, at 7:30 pm, the Astronomical Society of Greenbelt will host Conrad Terrill to present on the telescope in the Greenbelt Observatory.