Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Our journey crisscrosses the Big Island of Hawaii, exploring the basalt-lava rock pools of Hilo, pristine beaches, waterfalls, lush rainforests, and Volcanoes National Park. Ascend to great heights with a visit to Mauna Kea Observatories, where our small group of intrepid sky watchers will discover what secrets the Hawaiian skies reveal!
The Grand Canyon Astronomer in Residence program offers professional and amateur astronomers, educators, scientists, writers, and artists the opportunity to practice and share their discipline under one of the most pristine night skies in the United States. The goal is for the applicant to be inspired by the night skies at Grand Canyon and share that inspiration with park visitors and their own followers. Apply online by Sept. 15.
The Sun orbits the center of our galaxy in a clockwise direction, but the planets in the solar system orbit the Sun in a counterclockwise direction. Why is this?
Sharpless 2-71 is an unusual planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila the Eagle. Astronomers assumed that Sh 2-71 formed when the star visible at the center of the nebula expelled its outer layers. They now think that a dimmer star not visible in this image was the one that created the expanding cloud.
