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  1. Cosmic Canvas: Stellar Evolution Program Guide & Resources

    Activities | Resource Guide
    Stars are born, live incredible lives, and eventually die — sometimes in dramatic ways! This journey, known as stellar evolution, helps us understand how stars shape the universe. With these program...
    Artist's concept of the binary star system HM Sge on the black background of space sprinkled with various sizes of red and white points of light. At the top of the image, a blazing hot white disk surrounds a white dwarf star that is pulling a stream of material from its red giant companion, the glowing mottled ball at bottom right.

  2. Program Guide & Resources: Stars

    Resource Guide
    Stars are giant balls of gas held together by their own gravity. They have different colors and sizes, and like humans, they have a life cycle: Stars are born, grow old, and eventually die.  With...
    Rectangular graphic illustrating the Stars program theme. The right four-fifths of the graphic consists of an infrared image of the Pillars of Creation from the Webb Space Telescope. The pillars are a ghostly blue-gray color with craggy finger-like tips. Running vertically along the left side of the image is a wide pink 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 stylized stars with four-pointed diffraction patterns.

  3. 2024 NASA's Astrophoto Challenge (Summer)

    May 20 through August 5, 2024 Challenge

    Make your own image of the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) with NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge using James Webb Space Telescope data.  Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to ...

  4. Science Briefing: Exploring the Lives and Deaths of Stars

    October 5, 2023 Professional Learning Webinar

    In this edition of NASA’s Universe of Learning Science Briefings, we will learn how low-, intermediate-mass, and massive stars evolve in single- and binary-star configurations. Dr. Roger Wesson ...

  5. Ask the Astronomers Live: Image Your Own Erupting Star

    May 3, 2022 Virtual Science Talk

    What happened to make the star Eta Carinae become the second brightest star in the sky in 1843? Why did it then dim over the next century and once again brighten? How can YOU take images of this star and ...

  6. Touch the Universe: Adler Planetarium

    3D Object | Program Model
    Touch the Universe uses 3D printed astrophysical objects in combination with visualizations to provide Adler Planetarium guests with a new way of exploring space concepts. It also benefits our guests with...
    3D Printed Astrophysical Objects

  7. Science Briefing: Live from AAS! 2022

    January 13, 2022 Professional Learning Webinar

    While the American Astronomical Society meeting has been cancelled, we’ll still be providing access to select researchers who will discuss their breaking news results coming out of NASA Astrophysics ...

  8. Paper Circuits: Light Up Exploded Stars

    Activities
    Paper circuits help learners of all ages explore the basics of electricity (energy that results from the existence of charged particles like electrons or protons) and conductivity (the degree to which...
    Screen shot from video showing a completed paper circuit

  9. Make the Universe: Pensacola MESS Hall

    Program Model
    Make the Universe is a group of activities requiring little to no technology to present to visitors. These cart or booth activities are meant to engage audiences of different ages during sidewalk science...
    People engaged in an art activity at a table

  10. 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

  11. ViewSpace Videos: Supernovas

    Videos
    What happens after a star explodes? Explore a supernova’s aftermath in detail, and learn about well-known objects like the Crab Nebula, Eta Carinae, and Supernova 1987A in these videos. Are you...

  12. Kepler Supernova Remnant in Multiple Wavelengths (Frame Sets)

    Videos
    In 1604, astronomer Johannes Kepler noted the appearance of a new bright object in the sky, visible to the naked eye for the next 18 months. Today we know that he was seeing the death of a star 20,000...
    Kepler Supernova Remnant in Multiple Wavelengths

  13. 3D Printing the X-ray Universe

    3D Object | Activities
    Despite our limited abilities to travel to distant objects in outer space, astronomers, computer scientists, and others are developing techniques that nudge astronomy visualization forward from two-dimensional...
    Illustration of hand on left placing a star in hand on right