All about Careers in Astronomy! How to become an Astronomer?
Channel: Life Around Science
Date: 2020-05-04

The video is part of the Research Poster Q&A Session of IUCAA's National Science Day 2021 from 3.30-5.30 pm for the Careers in Astronomy topic.

This video covers all you need to know about the current state of #astronomy and #astrophysics and their #careers by IUCAA Research Scholar and Astronomer, Ms. Parisee Shirke and Swarnim Shirke.

We have addressed the following in this video:
0:00 Introduction
1:19 How to become an astronomer?
2:32 Can engineers contribute to astronomy?
3:08 Is amateur astronomy/ interest in sky gazing must?
3:40 Subjects useful for Astronomy
4:50 Different branches of Astronomy
6:28 Future opportunities for aspiring astronomers
7:29 Job prospects? What can you become?
8:38 More Suggestions

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Happy Astronomy!
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[Credits: 

Clips used in this video are from the following sources:

ScienceAtNASA : http://science.nasa.gov/ :
1) NASA ScienceCasts: The Parker Solar Probe - A Mission to Touch the Sun
2) NASA ScienceCasts: Shedding Light on Black HolesHubbleESA: 

ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen): https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/ :
3) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope 
4) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth.

5) LSST Project/NSF/AURA
6) LIGO Lab Caltech : MIT -LIGO: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves- Caltech 
7) UC Berkeley -Solar probe touches the sun - Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally. Animations and images courtesy of NASA/JHUAPL, NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe, NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim, Johns Hopkins University/APL/Steve Gribben
8)  APOD Videos - Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station - NASA, ISS, Riccardo Rossi (ISAA)

All the clips except HubbleESA are used under the following license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The  HubbleESA clips have been reused under the following license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Different clips have been trimmed and reordered, however, there are no internal modifications of any clips.

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