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NASA/IPAC Teacher
Archive Research Program

How it works

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

Chelen Johnson

Cosmic dIRt/Gorjian

Cosmic dIRt/Gorjian

Cosmic dIRt is examining the Spitzer Enhanced Imaging Products catalog to find the most unusual and faintest infrared excess objects serendipitously detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

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Our Participants Talk About NITARP

  • Molohon

    Every science teacher should get to go through a program like this.

  • Novatne

    The experience has changed my understanding of astronomy and how it is done, but not of astronomers.

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