Join Dave Schlichting, NASA Hunch, to learn about the challenges of space exploration. The challenges are daunting, but NASA is partnering with grassroots efforts to find new solutions. We have a HUNCH it just might work!
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The culture of exploration in Colorado is not just a thing of the past, it extends into space science too! Join Arlin Bartels, NASA, to discover an array of space missions with components from the Centennial State. | The science of lunar cycles helps us understand past cultures, present moon lore, and casts a glow on our dreams for the future. Join Dr. Erica Ellingson from UC Boulder to explore this topic. Learn about research at Chimney Rock National Monument in Colorado and recent observations from Stonehenge in the United Kingdom. |
Dark night skies have been a constant throughout humanity, but now 99 percent of us live under light polluted skies. Join Deb Price with DarkSky Colorado, and explore the science of darkness and the reasons it is important. Learn about easy ideas of how everyone can help reduce light pollution in our own backyards. |
What does it mean to join the dark side? Meet Dr. Li-Wei Hung, one the the lead Astronomers in the National Park Service. Discover why natural darkness is important, how darkness is measured, and learn about ways that we all can work together to keep stellar night sky views for plants, wildlife, and people. | Picture the connection between art and astronomy with Astrophotographer and writer Dawn Wilson. Dawn with share her tips for how to find the best night sky views and how to plan for a stellar evening. |
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Dr. Fran Bagenal is a research scientist and professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is co-investigator and team leader for the plasma investigations on NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Juno mission to Jupiter. Her main area of expertise is the study of charged particles trapped in planetary magnetic fields and the interaction of plasmas with the asmospheres of planetary objects, particulary in the outer solar system. She edited the monography Jupiter: Planet, Satellites and Magnetosphere (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Dr. Bagenal received her bachelor of science in Physics and Geophysics from the University of Lancaster, England, and her doctorate degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT. She has participated in several of NASA's planetary exploration misisons, including Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, Deep Space 1, New Horizons, and Juno.
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Arlin Bartels is a Senior Project Manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and an Estes Park High School graduate. Across a 35-year career in Aerospace spent mostly in Colorado and Maryland, he has worked in private industry and for NASA on a range of Commercial, Civilian and Defense missions as a Systems Engineer and Project Manager. Arlin has specialized in Planetary and Deep Space missions, having either worked or led robotic spacecraft missions to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Asteroid Bennu and the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids. Mr. Bartels currently is leading the development of the “DAVINCI” mission to Venus, which is planned to launch in 2031 and arrive at Venus in 2033 where it will release a probe to investigate the Venusian atmosphere during descent. Arlin and his wife Kimberly (also an Estes Park High School Graduate) still call Estes Park their hometown, and enjoy travel, the outdoors and spending time with their granddaughters and a German Shepherd named Hank.
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Dr. Li-Wei Hung leads the NPS night sky monitoring team, which serves all 430 national park units in the United States. Her role involves providing scientific support to superintendents and resource managers, with a focus on protecting natural night skies for the management of both natural and cultural resources, facilities, wildlife, and visitor experiences across the NPS. As the lead scientist, Dr. Hung oversees the development of night sky monitoring camera systems. Additionally, she offers technical assistance to parks regarding sustainable outdoor lighting. Her work serves as a bridge between park staff and nearby communities, addressing light pollution through collaborative efforts.
Dr. Hung is an astrophysicist by training. She earned her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Los Angeles. Utilizing an 8-meter telescope, she directly imaged planet formation disks around other stars. Her academic journey also includes a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy from The Ohio State University, where she graduated summa cum laude with honors research distinction.
Dr. Hung was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. Outside of work, she finds joy in outdoor activities such as backpacking, camping, hiking, biking, running, and swimming.
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Deborah Price is a retired environmental educator, and has been a member of Darksky Colorado's Board of Directors since 2022. She has a degree in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism from Colorado State University, and a previous degree in journalism and public relations. Deborah shares dark-sky presentations and astronomy programs with the general public throughout the northern Colorado region. She helped start astronomy programs while working with the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas and later at Boulder County Parks & Open Space. She enjoys hiking, writing, photography, astronomy, and sharing her love of nature. Deborah fondly remembers being overwhelmed with the beauty of the night sky, when first hiking in the mountains.
Dave Schlichting is a retired Astronomy and Space Science Teacher and currently lives in Winter Park, Colorado with his wife Darcy. He devoted his career to creating a curriculum in astronomy for high school students that emphasized the importance of science education. Dave was selected as an Education Ambassador for the NASA MAVEN mission to Mars in 2013, served as a Teacher Liaison for the Space Foundation, and was the principle investigator for COSMOS which analyzed the molecular structure of metals synthesized in microgravity on the International Space Station. Dave currently serves as the Colorado mentor for HUNCH, supervising more than 600 students working on projects for the International Space Station, Project Gateway, and Artemis.
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Dawn is a full-time and award-winning nature photographer and writer. She specializes in photographing and telling the stories about wildlife of high latitudes and high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains and Alaska as well as the landscapes and night skies that captivate the imagination in these locations. Dawn's photographs are in galleries and collections throughout North America. She has more than 800 bylined articles and photos to her credit, including Outdoor Photographer, Colorado Outdoors, Wyoming Wildlife, Alaska magazine and more! Dawn is also the outdoor writer and photographer for Estes Park Trail-Gazette. After learning more about the impacts of light pollution on wildlife, Dawn took up capturing images of the night sky to encourage others to take steps in preserving another resource we are quickly losing.
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The city seemed exhausted, not exuberant.
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Well, that was a nice idea in theory. Paris held the first-ever Olympics opening ceremony to take place outside a stadium—and on one of the loveliest settings in the world, the Seine. Athletes paraded not by foot but by boat, waving flags from sleek cruising pontoons, as pageantry unfolded on bridges and riverbanks. The aquatic format promised to do more than just showcase the architectural beauty of Paris or convey the magic of strolling across the Pont Neuf with fresh bread in hand. It promised to offer the world—our ever more jaded, content-drowned world—something new to look at.
Unfortunately, that new thing was a mess. Some will blame the rain, which soaked the festivities for hours, adding an air of tragedy as athletes waved flags from within their ponchos. But even on a sunnier day, the ceremony would have served as an example of how not to stage a spectacle for live TV. The energy was low, the pacing bizarre, and the execution patchy. Paris tried to project itself as a modern, inclusive hub of excitement—but it mostly just seemed exhausted.
Olympics opening ceremonies are inevitably ridiculous affairs, usually in a fun way. The host nation must welcome the global community while cobbling all of the signifiers of its own identity into some sort of romping medley that also, ideally, expands that country’s image in helpful ways. London offered the Queen and James Bond, and also a tribute to the National Health Service. Rio hosted a rumbling dance party as well as a briefing on Brazil’s Indigenous history. Most important, both of those cities gave us good TV.
Beforehand, the Paris event’s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, announced his intentions to play with Gallic clichés. Key words— liberté , synchronicité , and so on—announced thematic chapters, but a narrative hardly cohered. Congratulations if you had the following on your bingo card: mimes, Louis Vuitton, parkour, Les Mis é rables , the cancan, lasers shooting out of the Eiffel Tower , allusions to ménages à trois. But credit where it’s due—I really did not foresee the Minions stealing the Mona Lisa and bringing it aboard a Jules Verne–style submarine. On reflection, that was the most educational part of the show: learning that a Frenchman co-directed Despicable Me .
One problem with this French fever dream is that much of it was prerecorded. Every few minutes, the telecast would cut to slick cinematography of a masked, hooded individual—that’s what the NBC broadcasters kept calling her, “the Individual”—sneaking the Olympic torch around. She went to the Louvre, where the paintings came to life. She went to a movie screening, where a Lumière-brothers film ... came to life. These segments hit with all the force of a cruise-ship commercial, while distracting from the novelty of having a ceremony on water in the first place.
The live components of the show weren’t much more vibrant. A bridge was converted into a runway on which fashion models and drag queens strutted with the gusto and precision of a forced march. Platforms over the river itself featured extreme-sports performers doing tricks that the TV cameras seemed suspiciously afraid of showing in close-up. Lady Gaga put on a feather-laden cabaret performance that was perfectly fine, save for the fact that “perfectly fine” shouldn’t be anywhere near the name Lady Gaga. (As it turns out, that performance was prerecorded too.)
One of the only showstopping moments made clear that the weird vibes of the ceremony could largely be blamed on the detail work. At one point, the camera cut to a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette and holding her own babbling, chopped-off head. The heavy-metal band Gojira broke into riffage, and flames fired. This was righteous. But then, not much happened. Viewers were left to grow bored with static, wide shots of the performance. Eventually, a fake boat wheeled into view, looking quite a bit like a prop from a high-school play.
The best bits took place firmly on land. The pop star Aya Nakamura danced with the French Republican Guard in a flashy meeting of old and new cultural regimes. Once the sun set, “the Individual” emerged in real life to ride a cool-looking mechanical horse down the Seine. (It must be said that this journey was interminable.) The Olympic cauldron was cool too: It resembled a hot-air balloon, and it rose into the air when lit. To finish things off, Celine Dion made her seemingly unlikely return to singing, heaving with emotion from a deck of the Eiffel.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that carefully composed, largely stable images were the highlights of a show that tried to reinvent the Olympic ceremony in fluid directions. My favorite moment was when the pianist Alexandre Kantorow played Maurice Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau from a bridge as rain puddled on his instrument. He looked sad and soaked but also unbothered, lost in music. He made me remember the word I’d been trying to think of, for one of those ineffable French feelings: malaise .
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