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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. Science Briefing: Extreme Speeds in the Universe

    December 7, 2023 Professional Learning Webinar

    In this edition of NASA’s Universe of Learning Science Briefings, we will learn about extreme speeds in the Universe, from the incomprehensibly rapid expansion of the Universe itself to high-speed ...

  4. Stellar Evolution Scavenger Hunt

    Activities
    This activity introduces participants to the stages in the life cycles of massive and low-to-intermediate-mass stars. They will learn how a star’s life cycle depends on its mass by participating...
    Red-orange arcs surround the carbon star CW Leonis. Brilliant searchlight beams from the star’s surface poke through.

  5. Teachable Moments: Telescopes Capture an Extraordinary View of the Milky Way's Black Hole

    Article | Resource Guide
    Find out how scientists captured the first image of Sagittarius A*, why it's important, and how to turn it into a learning opportunity for students. Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, has a supermassive...
    First image of the black hole at the Galactic Center looks like a bright orange donut with three whiter areas, and is set against a black background.

  6. 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

  7. Our Hidden Universe: Maryland Science Center

    Program Model
    Our Hidden Universe is a hands-on planetarium show. Participants are given a kit of materials and encouraged to make their own observations throughout the show. The show focuses on various tools that were...
    person holding up paper with astronomical image behind

  8. ViewSpace Videos: Black Holes

    Videos
    What are black holes? How can we detect them? These videos allow your visitors to journey to the centers of galaxies to explore what we know about these elusive objects. Are you interested in playing...
    Black hole in a super massive black hole

  9. 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

  10. ViewSpace Interactives: Black Holes

    Interactive
    A black hole is a region of space packed with so much mass that its own gravity prevents anything from breaking away. Although we can’t see a black hole, telescopes can observe the material around...