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Digger recently had the chance to speak to high school students from the Longmont area and met with the celebrated drone performance team that travels the country with their shows.

The Discovery Center in Colorado Springs celebrated a successful National Space Day, with over 4000 attendees participating in a range of activities sponsored by the Space Foundation and joined by three astronauts.

What a great way to wrap up Space In The Community this week with a visit to Panorama Middle School. There is a good possibility out of the 300 students we saw today, we might see some new space explorers from this school.

We had a highly positive experience working with the Space Foundation educators and about 250 students from Carmel Community School this morning. Not only were they energized to work together but considerable kindness was displayed.

The students of Mountain Vista Community School had a great time learning about a future in space, and their energy and enthusiasm were truly contagious.

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Astronaut Interview: HHS Panther Media Network Our talented multimedia students at Harrison High School create content for their Panther Media Network platforms, and thanks to the Space Foundation, they had the opportunity to produce a sit-down interview with former NASA astronaut Duane "Digger" Carey. We appreciate his service, and we're grateful for the time he spent with our students and staff across our D2 schools this week. @spacefoundation @panthermedianetwork

We greatly appreciate our collaboration with the space educators from the Space Foundation and acknowledge their role in motivating new explorers. Can you identify Digger in the picture on the left? The gym was packed with roughly 380 students.

Our features a lensing cluster 🔎

The giant galaxy cluster in the centre of this image contains so much dark matter that its gravity bends the light of more distant objects. This means that for very distant galaxies in the background, the cluster’s gravitational field acts as a sort of magnifying glass, bending and concentrating the distant object’s light towards the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

These gravitational lenses are one tool astronomers can use to extend Hubble’s vision beyond what it would normally be capable of observing. This way some of the very first galaxies in the Universe can be studied by astronomers!

Read more about it here: https://ow.ly/9b5z50YRZUw

📷 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration , ESA - European Space Agency , J. Richard (CRAL) and J.-P. Kneib (LAM). Acknowledgement: Marc Postman (STScI)

Today, over 350 students benefited from the Space Foundation’s Space In The Community program, which included a presentation by Digger this afternoon.