Astronomy-Related Apps

Looking for iPad or iPhone apps that can tell you about the night sky? Try some of these:

Star Walk (iPad only): Point the iPad anywhere in the sky, and, based off of the iPad’s compass, the app will label stars, constellations, and satellites in that part of the sky. This feature is called augmented reality. The app also has a calendar of astronomical events and allows users to travel to any time in the past or future.

Pocket Universe (iPhone, iPad): This app also uses augmented reality to show the constellations, stars, planets, and Messier objects. Includes a quiz to help users learn the names of the stars.

MoonPhase (iPhone, iPad): Shows the moon’s phases, its rise and set times, and the sun’s rise and set times—and everything else one needs to know about our moon.

Star Search (iPhone, iPad): Helps users find 16 constellations and provides information about each one. Great for beginners still learning the stars.

Sky Walk (iPhone, iPad): Identifies stars, planets, galaxies, constellations, and satellites using augmented reality.

Check them out in the iTunes app store.

UNH Releases Undergraduate Research Journal

Studying the economics of an eco-friendly resort in Belize. Learning how mathematics can describe biology. Traveling to a monastery in New York to see how Russian Orthodoxy in the United States survived communism during the 20th century.

The stories that student research experiences have generated are abundant at the University of New Hampshire. See what students are investigating in the 2012 edition of Inquiry journal, which is now available to read online.

Inquiry, the multi-disciplinary journal for undergraduate research at UNH, is published online annually in April. The journal features articles and personal commentaries about research experiences from current UNH students and alumni.

Published on April 26, the 2012 edition is the eighth issue of the journal.

NASA Video of the Transit of Venus 2012