Astronomy

Astronomy

October 20 – Astronomy Day . On Astronomy Day, thousands of people who have never looked through a telescope will have an opportunity to see first hand what has so many amateur and professional astronomers all excited. Astronomy clubs, science museums, observatories, universities, planetariums, laboratories, libraries, and nature centers host special events and activities to acquaint their population with local astronomical resources and facilities. Find out the upcoming events near you. Odyssey On-Line has lots of great astronomy features.

March 29, 2006 – Sun-Earth Day THEME: Eclipse: In a Different Light. How eclipses have inspired people to observe and understand the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Join in an extraordinary journey of exploration, discovery and understanding as they prepare for a total solar eclipse on March 29, 2006.

Astronomy Magazine Feature articles, news and kids’ section.

Earth and Moon Viewer See a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment, or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, from a satellite in Earth orbit, or above various cities around the globe.

Earth Observing System has educational publications as well as their EOS Science Poster Series. EOS will enable an improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system. Lithographs, fact sheets and posters.

Stargazer PBS’s weekly television series on naked eye astronomy. Each weekly episode features selected objects for viewing for the following week.

HubbleSite News Center All Hubble pictures and news, from the latest discoveries to the earliest images.

Lakota Star Knowledge introduces Hills of Home in Night Sky. Star and Black Hills maps; table of constellation names, Western star names too for using current astronomy materials.

Mars Exploration Rover Mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Mars is 170 million kilometers (106 million miles) away from Earth today, a distance that takes nearly 10 minutes for radio signals to cross at the speed of light. Mission to Mars has images, at-home experiments for kids and lesson plans to compliment details of mission goals and payload.

Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.

Project Gallileo – September 21, 2003, the Galileo Space Probe, which had been orbiting Jupiter for nearly eight years, plummeted fatefully into the crushing pressures and searing heat of that planet’s interior. In a mission spanning three decades, the Galileo space probe has answered many of humanity’s questions about space and presented us with the knowledge to ask many more.

Challenger Center for Space Science Education Imaginative activities to get your children excited about astronomy. Designed by the Challenger Center, they’re free to download and use for educational purposes. Build and explore a 1:10 billion scale model of our solar system, create a space exploration timeline and more. Files are in PDF format.

Watch the first Space Shuttle launch and land on the 40th anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvKvbr8p0No

Star Child is a learning center for young astronomers with novice level 1 and intermediate level 2.