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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

Independent Research 2008

Independent Research 2008

This virtual team collects all independent research presented in 2008, and done by Spitzer alumni with students outside of a formal Spitzer team. Mr. Spuck's students worked on classifying galaxies in the Spitzer observations of the Taurus Molecular Cloud.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

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    It has been a pleasure working in the program and with the other educators and students.

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    Great to see real data taken from real telescopes take shape.

  • Debbie

    While a lot of astronomy is done by computer, nothing compares to having a human look over the data.