Science without borders: an astronomy-based school exchange
Typical school exchanges focus on language and culture – but you can also build a successful exchange programme around science.
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Typical school exchanges focus on language and culture – but you can also build a successful exchange programme around science.
Astronomers are still trying to discover exactly why galaxies formed in spiral shapes, and what’s likely to happen to our galaxy in the future.
What we learnt from the first moon landing, and the curious questions that remain.
How a great achievement of the European Space Agency can become an inspiration for your students.
The month of May brings with it two different planetary wonders, allowing us to recreate calculations first made 300 years ago
Different stars shine with different colours, and you can use a light bulb to help explain why.
On 26 December 2013, after a long and exciting trip, 56 secondary-school students from 18 countries arrived at their destination: the picturesque alpine village of Saint-Barthélemy, Italy, where the Astronomical Observatory of the Autonomous Region of the Aosta Valley (OAVdA) was built because of…
How do astronomers investigate the life cycle of stars? At the European Space Agency, it’s done using space-based missions that observe the sky in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light – as this fourth article in a series about astronomy and the electromagnetic spectrum describes.
Science without borders: an astronomy-based school exchange
Galaxies: genesis and evolution
Missions to the Moon
Teaching with Rosetta and Philae
Mercury and Mars in May
Starlight inside a light bulb
Camping under the stars — the ESO Astronomy Camp 2013
More than meets the eye: how space telescopes see beyond the rainbow