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NITARP Menu About What is NITARP History Quotes FAQs How it works Participants Research Teams News Events Resources For applicants For participants For the classroom Publications Other Programs FAQs 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 What is NITARP News Participants SHIPs/Ali The goal of SHIPs (Searching Herschel Images for Protostars) is to find and identify stars in the earliest phases of formation in NGC 281, a.k.a. "the pac-man nebula". These stars will help us understand the history of the star formation process in that region. Learn more Our Participants Talk About NITARP Real astronomy isn’t just looking through telescopes with the naked eye anymore. It is really being accurate and precise and a lot of computer mathematics. It was very satisfying to be able to converse with the grad students about their science and actually understand what they were talking about. Participating in NITARP has made me more confident about teaching Astronomy and communicating to students about how archive Astronomy research is done. They are surprised to learn that even THEY could do Astronomy research. My students and I had such a experience (they LOVED the JPL tour) and I’d love to participate again because I have some new students that I think would love this program! Links FAQs NITARP people History Other EPO Programs CoolWiki Contact Us Funding for NITARP comes from the NASA ADP program and NASA/Archive EPO program. © 2024 NITARP - an IPAC...