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The Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE) is pleased to announce the second round of its astrophotography contest, in a joint endeavour with OAE Center Italy as co-sponsor, aiming to increase its foundational collection of high-quality educational resources.
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astroEDU, the IAU's peer-reviewed educational activities platform picks up the pace with a change in leadership, on the foundation of new technology supporting the editorial process, and with an overhaul creating the technical foundation of creating additional multilingual editions of the site.
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The International Astronomical Union is pleased to announce the founding of four new “branch offices” of the Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE): the OAE Center China–Nanjing, the OAE Center India, the OAE Center Egypt and the OAE Node Republic of Korea
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The IAU OAE publishes the proceedings from the 3rd Shaw-IAU workshop
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What does it mean when we say someone has a solid basic knowledge of astronomy? This is the question that inspired the project Big Ideas in Astronomy: A Proposed Definition of Astronomy literacy. A new version of Big Ideas in Astronomy is now available, including translations into six languages.
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