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ClusterBusters

ClusterBusters

This NITARP alumni team is investigating the ages of some young clusters.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Senson

    Every time we meet or talk or work on the project I feel just a little bit more knowledgeable, skilled and, perhaps most importantly, confident in what I know and can do...

  • Thompson

    I think that the most surprising thing about it was how young everyone was! I absolutely did not expect that, maybe because the amateur community is so much older by comparison, and is mainly composed of retired people.

  • Odden

    Astronomers are a remarkably collaborative lot.