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The latest from across CASSA — recent highlights from news and events, and what's coming up next.

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Recent highlights

  1. Event BDOAA Workshop BDOAA Women's Astronomy Olympiad Preparation Camp A free two-day intensive camp introducing girls in Classes 6–10 to observational and theoretical astronomy — 10–11 July 2026 at CASSA, IUB. Read
  2. Event Durbin Workshop Astrophotography Meets Zine Making: A Durbin WOW Workshop A two-day collaborative workshop where astrophotography meets handmade zines — open to the public and Durbin volunteers on 3–4 July 2026 at CASSA, IUB. Read
  3. News Outreach When Astrophotography Met Zine Making A two-day workshop under the Durbin WOW project, in collaboration with HerStory Foundation and Dhaka Zine Mela, brought science, art, and storytelling together — folding paper into zines on Day 1 and turning them into digital booklets on Day 2. Read
  4. Event Journal Talk Journal Talk 24: Mohammad & Oyon (2026) CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop, Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop) Read
  5. News Outreach The Sky Comes to Chayatol A small Durbin team spent a day at Chayatol school introducing children to the universe — a cosmic zoom-out video, astrophotography captured from Bangladesh, an acted-out eclipse, and a sky-drawing activity that had imaginations running wild. Read
  6. News Milestones A new A&A study on the Milky Way's accretion history Istiak Hossain Akib, a Graduate Member of CASSA, is the first and corresponding author of a new Astronomy & Astrophysics paper showing how the kinematics of globular clusters trace the Milky Way's ancient merger epochs. Read
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  1. 14 Jul 2026 Durbin 7:00 pm আসমান জমিনের গল্প – পর্ব–১: টেলিস্কোপে মহাকাশ দেখা টিএসসি মাঠ, ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
  2. 16 Jul 2026 Journal Talk 2:00 pm Journal Talk 25: Syed A. Uddin et al. (2024) CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop, Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop)
  3. 16 Jul 2026 Colloquium 3:00 pm CASSA Colloquium 14: TART — Recent Developments and Future Plans CASSA, IUB Main Building Rooftop, Plot 16, Aftabuddin Ahmed Road, Block B, Bashundhara RA (Main Building Rooftop)

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