Here it is almost the end of March, and none of us has blogged about the International Year of Astronomy 2009. There are a whole bunch of cool events of various sorts around the world. Ray Jayawardhana at Toronto started the year off with a great ad campaign on Toronto busses and elsewhere called Cool Cosmos. Here are a couple of examples:
Pretty cool to see that while you're standing on a bus. Later this week starts 100 hours of Astronomy, running April 2--5. The focus is a worldwide marathon of amateur astronomers watching the sky, culminating in a star party during the final 24 hours, which coincides with the 3rd annual International Sidewalk Astronomy night. If you have a telescope and know how to use it, get out there! And if you don't, now's your chance to find one! Astronomical observatories will be participating via Around the World in ...
