Sten Odenwald

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sten Odenwald
Occupation	Astronomer
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1952(1952-11-23)
Age	72
Birthplace	Karlskoga
Country	Sweden
Birth City	Örebro
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Sten Odenwald Biography

Sten Odenwald is one of the most popular and richest Astronomer who was born on November 23, 1952 in Karlskoga, Örebro, Sweden.

Following the completion of his Ph.D., Odenwald moved to Washington, D.C., in 1982, where he worked as a postdoctoral candidate at the Space Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory until 1990. While there, he continued his partnership with the Harvard-Smithsonian balloon program and wrote a series of papers on various star-forming regions in the Cygnus X region of the Milky Way including DR-6, DR-7, DR-22 as well as DR-15 and DR-20. He also investigated star-forming regions associated with supernova remnants such as IC-433 and W-28 in order to find evidence for star formation triggered by supernova remnant impacts. Subsequently, he worked with the IRAS infrared data to investigate the frequency and distribution of young stellar objects in the Cygnus-X region, detect asteroidal debris disks surrounding sun-like stars, and conducted an investigation of a new class of interstellar dust clouds that he had discovered, beginning with the archetype of this class called the Draco Cloud. This was the first time that astronomers had discovered hydrodynamical processes acting in the interstellar medium to sculpt the shapes of interstellar dust clouds. At NRL, and working with Dr. Kandiah Shivanandan, he built a cryogenically cooled array camera that operated in the mid-infrared, and made frequent trips to the Wyomning Infrared Observatory (WIRO) to collaborate with Prof. Harley Thronsen to map a variety of compact infrared sources. The details of this camera and its scientific results were published in 1992.

At Harvard, he studied accretion disks around supermassive black holes. He then worked with Dr. Giovanni Fazio, and completed his Ph.D. in 1982 by investigating the far-infrared properties of the Milky Way’s galactic center and the interstellar environment of a million-solar-mass black hole found there. He also worked at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas, participating in high-altitude balloon launches involving the 1-meter infrared telescope that Fazio and his team built in 1975. While at Harvard, he was the teaching assistant for Owen Gingerich and David Latham.

Sten Odenwald Net Worth

Sten Odenwald is one of the richest Astronomer from Sweden. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sten Odenwald 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sten Felix Odenwald (born November 23, 1952) is an American astronomer, author, and NASA scientist-educator. Odenwald has worked as part of the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer, Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment investigating the cosmic infrared background. He has published four books: The Astronomy Cafe, The 23rd Cycle, Patterns in the Void and Back to the Astronomy Cafe. He has also appeared in a number of TV and radio documentaries on astronomy and space weather. Since receiving his Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University in 1982, he has been an astronomer in the Washington, D.C. area, primarily at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Since 2000, he has been actively involved in science and math education at NASA, and was a founding member of the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum, among many other high-visibility NASA education projects involving space weather issues, archeoastronomy and the transits of Venus in 2004 and 2012. He is currently the director of STEM Education at the National Institute of Aerospace.

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Stephen Ranked on the list of most popular Astronomer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sweden. Sten Odenwald celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.