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  1. Program Guide & Resources: Data and Imaging Processing

    Resource Guide
    Scientists rely on computers not only to do calculations, but also to transform telescope data into images. Coding and programming are some of the many methods that astronomers use in order to study the...
    Rectangular graphic illustrating the Data and Image Processing program theme. The right four-fifths of the graphic shows a space telescope orbiting Earth, collecting data from a supernova remnant, and transmitting the data to a large satellite dish. Running vertically along the left side of the image is a wide purple bar. In the lower half of the bar is a line drawing of a simple hand-held telescope on a tripod. The telescope points toward a circular field of view showing rows of ones and zeros.

  2. Program Guide & Resources: Electromagnetic Spectrum

    Resource Guide
    Astronomers learn about space objects by gathering and analyzing the light coming from them. Since there is more than one type light, observations of multiple types of light from an object —multiwavelength...
    Rectangular graphic illustrating the Electromagnetic Spectrum program theme. The right four-fifths of the graphic is a colorful multiwavelength space telescope image of a planetary nebula. The nebula looks like a human eyeball, with a hot pink pupil surrounded by blue and orange iris-like rings. Running vertically along the left side of the image is a wide green bar. In the lower half of the bar is a line drawing of a simple hand-held telescope on a tripod. The telescope points toward a circular field of view showing an expanding wave pattern.

  3. Science Briefing: Preparing for the Predicted T Coronae Borealis Nova

    June 6, 2024 Professional Learning Webinar

    In this special edition of NASA’s Universe of Learning Science Briefings, we will focus on T Coronae Borealis, one of the brightest and most famous novae. It is predicted to erupt soon (perhaps reaching ...

  4. Stephan's Quintet: A Multi-wavelength Exploration

    Sonification | Videos
    This visualization explores the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet by using observations in visible, infrared, and X-ray light. The sequence contrasts images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer...
    Four galaxies appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, and one to the upper left. The galaxies appear to be touching. The galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All four galaxies have bright white cores and have streaks of blue and red. Some of the galaxies are peppered with white dust-like specks. Each galaxy is unique in size, shape, structure, and exact coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies, are a number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.

  5. 2022 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges (Summer)

    May 2 through July 31, 2022 Challenge

    Make Your Own Image of the Eta Carinae star system and the Carina Nebula with NASA’s Astrophoto Challenges   Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to use real astronomical ...

  6. Eta Carinae: The Great Eruption of a Massive Star

    Videos
    Eta Carinae, or Eta Car, is famous for a brilliant and unusual outburst, called the "Great Eruption," observed in the 1840s. This visualization presents the story of that event and examines the...
    Eta Carinae

  7. Colors of Space: Exploration Place

    Program Model | Toolkit
    Exploration Place offered an after-school program consisting of four 45-minute hands-on activities about colors and light in space. Activities included light filtering, ultraviolet light on Mars, light...
    Activity recource material with handouts and a slinkey

  8. 2021 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Summer)

    July 1 through August 16, 2021 Challenge

    The summer 2021 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges have ended. This season's target: Messier 87 Galaxy. Try your hand at processing images from NASA's space telescopes, or capture and process ...

  9. AstronoME Academy: The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology

    Program Model | Toolkit
    AstronoME Academy is an in-depth series of out-of-this world learning experiences for high school students in east central Ohio. Participants learn about the basics of astronomy, our galactic home, the...
    Dome Theater

  10. ViewSpace Videos: Multi-Wavelength Light

    Videos
    Teach your visitors how combining light from across the electromagnetic spectrum helps us learn an incredible amount about the universe in this video series. Are you interested in playing ViewSpace in...
    The Crab Nebula in multiwavelengths of light

  11. 2020 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Winter)

    December 9, 2019 through February 29, 2020 Challenge

    The winter 2020 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges have ended. This season's target: M82 Galaxy. Try your hand at processing images from NASA's space telescopes, or capture and process your ...

  12. 2019 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Summer)

    May 31 through July 31, 2019 Challenge

    The summer 2019 NASA's Astrophoto Challenges have ended. This season's target: Whirlpool Galaxy. Try your hand at processing images from NASA's space telescopes, or capture and process ...

  13. Life and Death of Stars Resource Guide

    Resource Guide
    Do stars really move? How do stars form and die? What are nebulas and supernovas? This resource guide contains a range of resources and activities to help you guide audiences as they explore many facets...
    Combined telescope images of the Crab Nebula displayed in red, yellow, green, ultraviolet, and X-ray light

  14. Shedding New Light on the Whirlpool Galaxy

    Videos
    The Whirlpool Galaxy is a magnificent spiral galaxy that has been studied across the electromagnetic spectrum by NASA's Great Observatories. This remarkable video uses two-dimensional images and three-dimensional...
    Shedding New Light on the Whirlpool Galaxy

  15. Pillars of Creation: Visible and Infrared Views (Frame Sets)

    Videos
    The Pillars of Creation (Eagle Nebula, or Messier 16) are a stellar nursery, composed of gas and dust slowly eaten away by massive stars that are off the far to the upper right corner of this image. The...
    Eagle Nebula in visible and infrared light side by side