For World Space Week Association 2024, ZAS hosted an event at the National University of Science and Technology centred around this year’s theme “space and the climate”! This was chaired by Munashe Manyevere 🙂 . This event was hosted through the NUST department of applied physics of which the ZAS education and outreach chair Prof. Golden Gadzirayi Nyambuya wa Soko-Mkanya is the head of. . Prof. Nyambuya gave a presentation on the Faint Young Sun Paradox and its relevance to this year's theme for world space week. General Secretary Praise Nesvinga gave a presentation on the background of World Space Week and the Zimbabwean Astronomical Society. The event concluded with the distribution of ISO certified solar viewing spectacles and getting a brief chance to observe the sun, and learning how to use a Galileoscope. . Students from many departments at NUST were present for this event, including from the departments of Applied Physics, Computer Science, Biotechnology, Informatics and Analytics, Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing and Environmental Science. . Thanks to Praise Nesvinga, Prof. Nyambuya, Munashe Manyevere, Bekithemba Sibanda, and Khesani Chilumani for sorting out this great event at NUST 🙌🏾
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Albeit slightly delayed, we have a blog post summarising everything that us at ZAS were involved in during the #IAUGA2024. From collaborations, research, networking, and fun activities! Look at our website to see not only this blog post, but other activities that we have been up to since ZAS has started 😁 . #zimbabwe #astronomy #zas
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ZAS General Secretary Praise Nesvinga's research delves into how galaxies move and expand within clusters, using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. . This image showcases the redshift measurements from different spectral lines, highlighting the consistency across the sample. Curious about the methods and implications for understanding the universe's expansion? . Dive into the full study -> https://shorturl.at/UihYJ
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Vice-president Jason Shingirai Makechemu gave a talk at the University of Zimbabwe where he emphasised the importance of inter-Zimbabwean collaboration for the good of the Zimbabwean Astronomical Society. It was a great honour for him as he has always wanted to raise awareness of Astronomy in Zimbabwe, this is only the beginning 😃 . An informal question and answer session was held afterwards, after presenting his PhD research, and research that followed on from his Oxford University internship 💫 . #zas #astronomy #zimbabwe
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Jason Shingirai Makechemu will be giving a seminar on his PhD research, and the Zimbabwean Astronomical Society, including potential collaboration opportunities between ZAS and the Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency - this will be a great opportunity to build connections between the two respective organisations 😃
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It was a great honour to give a talk on my PhD research at the Ethiopian Space Sciences and Geospatial Institute 😁. I also shared plenty of information about the Zimbabwean Astronomical Society, I’m looking forward to future collaborations between our two great countries 🇪🇹🇿🇼 🙌🏾
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I’m so excited to give a talk at the Ethiopian Space Sciences and Geospatial Institute on Monday morning! I will talk about my PhD research to date, and the Zimbabwean Astronomical Society 😁
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Yesterday marked the end of the IAU General Assembly 2024 #IAUGA2024 where in the second week of the conference, we had more presentations of posters and talks. Ashley Nyamandi and Munashe Manyevere presented their posters, and Jason Shingirai Makechemu presented his talk in the last session of the conference! - In addition to that, Thobekile Ngwane and Jason Shingirai Makechemu promoted their own research, and ZAS to an audience of hundreds through the Radio Astro radio show, and a Cosmic Savannah interview episode 😁 . More info on the interview to follow! . #zimbabwe #astronomy #ZAS
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Professor Nyambuya from the National University of Science and Technology shared his research with numerous people during one of the poster sessions at the #IAUGA2024 😀 . This was a great opportunity to showcase Prof’s ongoing research in the field of theoretical astrophysics with his poster titled “A Plausible Solution to the Hubble Tension via Cosmologically Varying Fundamental Natural Constants” 😁. . #zas #zimbabwe #astronomy #cosmology
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The first week of the #IAUGA2024 has been immensely hectic, but a great success so far! . With a focus meeting led by Prof. Mohamed, a talk given by Thobekile Ngwane, a poster presented by PROF. Dr. Golden Gadzirayi Nyambuya wa Soko-Mkanya, and school outreach done by Ashley Nyamandi, we have kept extremely busy! . This is not to mention our efforts to expand collaboration between our neighbours and within the wider Africa region such as with Associação Moçambicana de Astronomia and discussions involving the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development . . We are looking forward to what we will finish this event with as we have many more things planned 😁 . #zas #zimbabwe #astronomy