Astronomy 101: First Assignment for Columbia Course Turns Its Telescope to the ‘Genocide’ Unfolding in Gaza 

‘I was completely thrown for a loop. I thought I was hallucinating for a second,’ a Jewish student enrolled in the class tells the Sun.

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Part of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. NASA via Wikimedia Commons

Before astronomy students at Columbia University can learn about  about the sun, moon, and stars, they’ll have to take a refresher on … the “genocide” at Gaza?

That’s the message from an undergraduate astronomy lab assignment that was written by the class’s teaching assistant, Stephen Coffey, a second-year PhD student, and handed out during the first day of the lab course. 

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