Gravitational waves: a taxonomy
Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein – but where do they come from, and what different types might there be out in the cosmos?
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Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein – but where do they come from, and what different types might there be out in the cosmos?
How a great achievement of the European Space Agency can become an inspiration for your students.
Keen to save the world? Andy Newsam and Chris Leigh from the UK’s National Schools’ Observatory introduce an activity where you can potentially do just that: by detecting real asteroids – which may be heading for Earth.
How do astronauts eat, sleep and wash? Can you get ‘seasick’ in space? In the second of two articles about the ISS, Shamim Hartevelt-Velani, Carl Walker and Benny Elmann-Larsen from the European Space Agency investigate.
In the first of two articles, Shamim Hartevelt-Velani and Carl Walker from the European Space Agency take us on a trip to the International Space Station.
The challenge can be read in ‘The joy of discovery: a personal experience‘ The trail from which Comet West was discovered is indicated by an arrow Image courtesy of ESO
Richard West describes the excitement and joy of discovering a new comet.
One hour and 34 minutes after the bright tail of the Kosmos 3M rocket disappeared from view, more than one hundred students are checking their watches nervously. The first signal from their satellite should arrive any minute. Barbara Warmbein, from the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, the…
Films about science or even pseudo-science can be powerful tools in the classroom. Heinz Oberhummer and Markus Behacker from the Cinema and Science project provide a toolkit for using the film Deep Impact.
Films about science or even pseudo-science can be powerful tools in the classroom. Heinz Oberhummer from the Cinema and Science project provides a toolkit for using the video-clip collection of the European Space Agency.
Gravitational waves: a taxonomy
Teaching with Rosetta and Philae
Hunting for asteroids
The International Space Station: life in space
The International Space Station: a foothold in space
Answer to the challenge in The joy of discovery: a personal experience
The joy of discovery: a personal experience
Launching a dream: the first European student satellite in orbit
Deep Impact
Video-clip collection of the European Space Agency