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''"Lost in the milky way, smile at the empty sky, and wait for the moment when a million chances may all collide."''
-The Lightning Seeds, ''"The Life of Reilly"''

== About Me ==
''"Astronomy? Impossible to understand and madness to investigate."'' 
-Sophocles, c. 420 BCE


Greetings, earthlings! I come in peace!

[[File:MapofPayton.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=Example alt text|A view of my "home planet" from Google Maps. The school actually looks ''a lot'' cooler, I promise!]]

[[File:Payton.jpg|thumb|100px|alt=Example alt text|See! I told you!]]

I'm Nia Moreno, and I'm a rising senior at Walter Payton College Prep. I'm really excited to be a part of the C-WAYS Research Team! I've always been extremely interested in science and research, so this project is an amazing opportunity for me!

When I'm not spending my time stargazing, I enjoy traveling, taking pictures, writing and listening to music, playing with my cats, and volunteering at the Animal Welfare League.


[[File:Ultravioletandromeda.jpg|center|thumb|600px|alt=Example alt text|One of my favorite images of outer space - this gorgeous ultraviolet image was recorded by NASA's [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/team/index.html Swift Satellite] and is the highest resolution image ever made of the Andromeda Galaxy at ultraviolet wavelengths.]]


''"There is in the universe neither center nor circumference."''
-Giordano Bruno, on the infinite universe and worlds, 1584

=== Interests ===

#Ms. Barge's Astronomy Class :]
#<span style=color:lime>H</span><span style=color:hotpink>T</span><span style=color:teal>M</span><span style=color:salmon>L</span>
#Photography and Astrophotography
#NOVA scienceNOW
#<span style=color:red>Fr</span>en<span style=color:blue>ch</span> <span style=color:red>Lan</span>gu<span style=color:blue>age</span> <span style=color:red>a</span>n<span style=color:blue>d</span> <span style=color:red>Cu</span>ltu<span style=color:blue>re</span>
#<span style=color:red>T</span><span style=color:orange>h</span><span style=color:yellow>e</span> <span style=color:green>E</span><span style=color:blue>l</span><span style=color:indigo>e</span><span style=color:violet>c</span><span style=color:red>t</span><span style=color:orange>r</span><span style=color:yellow>o</span><span style=color:green>m</span><span style=color:blue>a</span><span style=color:indigo>g</span><span style=color:violet>n</span><span style=color:red>e</span><span style=color:orange>t</span><span style=color:yellow>i</span><span style=color:green>c</span> <span style=color:blue>S</span><span style=color:indigo>p</span><span style=color:violet>e</span><span style=color:red>c</span><span style=color:orange>t</span><span style=color:yellow>r</span><span style=color:green>u</span><span style=color:blue>m</span>, particularly ''<span style=color:cyan>infrared</span>'' and ''<span style=color:purple>ultraviolet</span>''.
#Animals
#Culinary Arts and Molecular Gastronomy
#Pokémon

=== Influences ===
#Neil deGrasse Tyson
#Ingrid Newkirk
#Graham Elliot
#Wylie Dufresne
#John Lennon

=== Contact ===

[mailto:niaamoreno@gmail.com E-mail me!]

== Cool Astronomy-Related Links ==

[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/archive/ NOVA scienceNOW Archives]

[http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/ Neil deGrasse Tyson]

[http://xkcd.com/ XKCD]

[http://spaceweather.com/ SpaceWeather]

=== Favorite Astrophotography Websites ===

[http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Astronomy Picture of the Day]

[http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html NASA Image of the Day]

[http://www.nasaimages.org/ NASA Images]

[http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/hires/true/ Hubble Site]

[http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.html Hubble Heritage]

[http://www.wikisky.org/ WikiSky]

== C-WAYS ==
Nothing here...yet.

=== C-WAYS Research Links ===

[http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Gator/ Gator Catalog List]

[http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/FinderChart/ Finder Chart]

=== Documents ===
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lly87ZOeostfe3u_uKlGi7tXKV4MjFjn7fgUKzqghuE/edit C-WAYS Vocab and Acronyms]