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Science Outreach in the Developing World

17 February, 2011:
Nature news on "Global solar observatory flares into life" see article on "Home-built e-CALLISTO network provides real-time data on Sun's radio emissions"

The CALLISTO antenna at Trinity College Dublin's Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory in Birr Castle Demesne. (photo by Dr. P.T. Gallagher, Trinity College Dublin)

Senior staff member Christian Monstein trains students in electronics and helps create scientific capabilities for research in countries around the world. For more information please read the article "ETH-Lernende unterstützen Entwicklungsländer" (August 2010) in ETH Life.

ETH students and their supervisors of the CALLISTO-project present one of their electronic devices (photograph by Heidi Hosteller/ETH Zurich)

ETH students and their supervisors of the CALLISTO-project present one of their electronic devices (photograph by Heidi Hosteller/ETH Zurich).

Popular science articles

  • December 2010: "Mit neuer Optik den Exoplaneten auf der Spur" by Sascha P. Quanz, published in "Orion", Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Astronomischen Gesellschaft SAG.
  • November 2009: "Recipes for planet formation" by Michael Meyer, published in Physics World

    focusTerra

    focusTerra is the Earth Science Research and Information Centre of ETH Zurich, located in the center of Zurich. It hosts several exhibits, open to the public, on the formation of the Earth, the processes operating within the Earth, treasures of the Earth's crust and the geological surface acting as the archives of Earth's history. For more information, please visit the focusTerra webpage.

    International Year of Astronomy 2009

    Please visit our IYA 2009 webpage (in German) for more on our outreach activities during the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

    Darwin Year 2009

    Our group participated in an exhibition at the Zurich Main Station 4-6 September 2009, organized in support of the Darwin Year 2009 by the University of Zurich and ETH, highlighting the role of ground- and space-based telescopes in the search for life on other planets.

    ETH Globe article

    An article on the work of the Institute of Astronomyhas been published in the ETH Globe magazin 2009_01
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