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Sten Odenwald | |
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| Born | Sten Felix Odenwald November 23, 1952 Karlskoga, Sweden |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, astronomy, science communication |
| Thesis | A Far-Infrared Survey of the Galactic Center (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Prof. Giovanni Fazio |
| Other academic advisors | Prof. Eric Chaisson |
| Website | The Astronomy Cafe |
Sten Felix Odenwald (born November 23, 1952) is an American astronomer, author, and NASA scientist-educator. Odenwald has worked as part of the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer, Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment investigating the cosmic infrared background. He has published four books: The Astronomy Cafe, The 23rd Cycle, Patterns in the Void and Back to the Astronomy Cafe. He has also appeared in a number of TV and radio documentaries on astronomy and space weather. Since receiving his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1982, he has been an astronomer in the Washington, D.C. area, primarily at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Since 2000, he has been actively involved in science and math education at NASA, and was a founding member of the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum,[1] among many other high-visibility NASA education projects involving space weather issues, archeoastronomy and the transits of Venus in 2004 and 2012. He is currently the director of STEM Education at the National Institute of Aerospace.[2]