NASA SCIENTIST VISITS OIL CITY HIGH SCHOOL
Oil City Derrick
Thursday, October 02, 2008
PA
Varoujan Gorjian, an astronomer with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, Calif., visited Oil City High School Friday and Monday
and talked to students about a wide range of topics including black
holes, the Big Bang Machine, and what it’s like to be a scientist.
Gorjian is Armenian and lived in Iran until he was 10 years old before
his family moved to Los Angeles. He is pictured here speaking in one
of teacher Tim Spuck’s Earth in action classes at the high school.
Gorjian traveled to the area to speak at Astroblast 2008, which was
held over the weekend at the Oil Region Astronomical Observatory at
Two Mile Run County Park.
Gorjian’s research focus is Active Galactic Nuclei, young star forming
regions that may be the sites of globular clusters in formation,
and cosmic star formation history. He is also a research scientist
with the Spitzer Science Center in Pasadena.