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From notebook sketches to space-telescope data: explore how mapping starlight using the Herzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram helps us trace the life stories of stars across the universe.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Meet the universe’s ultimate drama queens – stars that steal, explode, and shine brighter than ever before.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16;
Written in the stars: use microcontrollers and LEDs to model stellar life cycles, scaling billions of years into minutes while exploring stellar evolution.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Starstruck: with just water, sunlight, and simple equipment, students can use their physics knowledge to calculate the temperature of the Sun.
Ages: 16-19;
Ready to rock: discover what mysterious belts of dust, ice, and rock around distant stars can tell us about the formation of planetary systems.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
We can’t image our home galaxy from the outside, so how do we study it? Learn how astronomers unveil the dramatic past of the Milky Way and peer into its future.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
This is the story of how scientists created an image of the region around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy by combining many telescopes into one virtual telescope the size of the Earth.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Ever wondered what the solar wind means to us on Earth or what happens when the surface of the Sun erupts sporadically? Lucie Green from University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK, describes some of the recent research into the Sun’s atmosphere.
Ages: 16-19;
Henri Boffin from ESOw1 in Garching, Germany, follows the mystery of gamma-ray bursts from their first discovery to the most recent research on these dramatic astronomical explosions.
Ages: 16-19;
Students Jan Měšťan and Jan Kotek and teacher Marek Tyle from the Gymnázium Písek in the Czech Republic won the 2007 Catch a Star competition. Sai Pathmanathan describes their prize-winning project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
| Issue 76
A map of the stars
Topics: Astronomy / space
| Issue 75
Celestial cannibalism: investigating cataclysmic variable stars
Topics: Astronomy / space, Earth science, Physics
| Issue 74
Wall of stars: illuminate stellar life cycles with physics and coding
Topics: Astronomy / space, Coding, Engineering, Physics, STEAM
| Issue 72
Estimation of the Sun’s temperature without leaving the school
Topics: Astronomy / space, Earth science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics
| Issue 72
A new survey of exocomet belts is changing what we know about planetary systems
Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics
| Issue 64
Galactic Archaeology: how we study our home galaxy
Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics
| Issue 62
How global teamwork revealed the mystery at the heart of our galaxy
Topics: Astronomy / space, Engineering, News from the EIROs, Physics
| Issue 8
Research into the Sun’s atmosphere
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 7
Fusion in the Universe: gamma-ray bursts
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
| Issue 7
Students Catch a Star: researching and observing a solar eclipse
Topics: Physics, Astronomy / space
