{"id":472446,"date":"2010-03-25T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13075"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T21:00:31","slug":"30-seconds-of-a-teen-astronomer-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/472446","title":{"rendered":"30 seconds of a teen astronomer | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOVA Science Now has a nifty feature they&#8217;re doing online where they spotlight &#8220;The Secret Life of Scientists&#8221;. I have some reservations about it, because one thing scientists aren&#8217;t, is secretive. We talk about what we do constantly.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they have a series of short videos about teen astronomer <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_Moore\">Caroline Moore<\/a>, who recently discovered a rare type of supernova. She found this supernova, by the way, when she was 14.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/secretlife\/site_media\/player.swf\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>They also <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/secretlife\/site_media\/video\/CM_10questions_FINAL_512x288-PJPEG-Prepro.mp4\">asked her 10 questions<\/a>, and while I might disagree with her choice of a news source, I think it&#8217;s great that they let her be her, and she shines right through in these videos. It&#8217;s also really terrific that she doesn&#8217;t compromise in these interviews, belting out whatever is on her mind. She&#8217;s a fantastic role model for kids interested in science, showing them that science really is cool, and you can do it and still be you.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-qFHMwhK8YPYzOTaKU2BwC977M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-qFHMwhK8YPYzOTaKU2BwC977M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-qFHMwhK8YPYzOTaKU2BwC977M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5-qFHMwhK8YPYzOTaKU2BwC977M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/3XGH_B-wcWo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/pZvmCB_rk_c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVA Science Now has a nifty feature they&#8217;re doing online where they spotlight &#8220;The Secret Life of Scientists&#8221;. I have some reservations about it, because one thing scientists aren&#8217;t, is secretive. We talk about what we do constantly. Anyway, they have a series of short videos about teen astronomer Caroline Moore, who recently discovered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}