AWB’s Interim Executive Director Zoe Chee and Communications Manager Andrew Fazekas were invited as guests on the Explore Scientific USA (ES) Facebook Live to talk about the One Sky, One People vision of AWB.  Hosted by ES owner and AWB Board of Advisors member Scott Roberts, the trio deeply discussed how astronomers around the world shared their inspiration and hope during Global Astronomy Month (GAM) and how people leveraged today's online technology to carry on during the Covid crisis.

Learn how Mt. Meru Astronomical Observatory's Astronomy Teacher Ambassadors face the challenges of keeping their students engaged.

Join our many partners around the world on June 21, 2020, who will be live-streaming various portions of the annular solar eclipse, including locations within the path of annularity and many that will witness a partial eclipse too.

Astronomers Without Borders, with collaboration from the African Astronomical Society and the East Africa Regional Office of Astronomy for Development, is sending 16,000 solar glasses that will be distributed in and around the town of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia. Read the full Press Release:

Hello Astronomers!

For sure this period of quarantine was challenging for everyone. Furthermore a positive mind is more than important! We will overcome this time.

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text) and Valentin Grigore (photos)

Penumbral eclipse
spot of color without sound
moonrise from the ground