Last weekend I traveled to sunny Florida to see family. On flights — especially early morning ones — I can read a book for only so long, so I looked through the airline’s in-flight magazine. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that in the puzzles section they had an astronomy-related word find! The airline was promoting the International Year of Astronomy (IYA)! The word find included a description about the IYA and some 30 words ranging from black hole to luminosity to solar wind.
It’s always exciting to see astronomy being promoted in the most unlikely places. Have you come across any seemingly random mentions of IYA?
Related: March IYA2009 events