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Archive Research Program

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I've been involved in many professional development activities and this is by far the best one I've ever done

Chelen Johnson

BRC/Rebull

BRC/Rebull

Star Formation in Bright Rimmed Clouds (BRCs): Using Spitzer Space Telescope infrared images to find optically enshrouded stars that are in the process of formation in BRC 27 and BRC 34, which are clouds of gas being illuminated by other nearby, newly formed (but un-enshrouded) stars.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Sartore

    I can't wait to get started, and neither can my students!

  • Merrill

    I have begun to grasp the mind-boggling amount of data being produced by this [astronomical] infrastructure.

  • Todd

    [At the AAS,] All the talks I attended were truly interesting. It is pleasure to have others teach me!