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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. Beyond the Universe: South Dakota Discovery Center

    Activities | Program Model | Toolkit
    Beyond the Universe implemented the MicroObservatory into middle school curriculum to engage students in local communities. The project used a combination of NASA’s Universe of Learning activities...
    Astronomical Exhibit Display in a Children's Museum

  4. Paper Models of Astrophysics Missions

    Activities
    Building paper models of spacecraft is a fun and interactive way to learn more about NASA's missions. Models are available for easy, moderate, and more challenging skill sets. Each model has assembly...
    NASA's Great Observatories

  5. Artful Exoplanets: Creating Imaginary Worlds: Springfield Museum of Art

    Activities | Exhibits | Program Model | Toolkit
    Springfield Museum of Art partnered with The Dome: Center for Innovation and Clark County Juvenile Detention Center to provide two one-week sessions of summer programming. Artful Exoplanets: Creating Imaginary...
    Display of Artwork on the wall

  6. Exoplanet Travel Kits: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum

    Program Model | Toolkit
    Participating classes receive a traveling box, which include resources to teach students all about the exciting worlds outside our Solar System – exoplanets. Students are expected to design a human...
    Program modual travel kit materials

  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. Space STEM Live! Frontiers of Flight Museum

    Program Model
    Space STEM live! is an exciting, interactive, and educational event for visitors to participate in a variety of NASA’s Universe of Learning activities. Using everyday supplies mixed with a few event-specific...
    Child at computer with "Are we Alone?" on the lower third

  9. Space Art Explorations: Children's Creativity

    Program Model | Toolkit
    Space Art Explorations is a prototype science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) festival specifically designed for children’s museums interested in space science. The three...
    Young boy and girl showing of their artwork

  10. 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

  11. Tonight’s Sky: Mid-America Science Museum

    Program Model | Toolkit
    Mid-America Science Museum created Tonight’s Sky, an immersive viewer experience that allowed participants to explore the sky currently above them in a deep and meaningful way. The show provided...
    Kids sitting in a theater looking and pointing up

  12. 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

  13. Exoplanet Travel Bureau

    Poster | Videos
    Want to check out some of the thousands of exoplanets that NASA's astrophysics missions have discovered from the comfort of your own home? Check out the Exoplanet Travel Bureau for different ways to...

  14. How to Talk to a Spacecraft

    Activities
    NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uses binary code to gather information about Earth's surface. That code, in the form of two numbers (1s and 0s), is then read and converted by computers into images....
    How to Talk to a Spacecraft Banner

  15. MicroObservatory Training and Resources

    Videos
    Several resources are available to help you use our free image-processing software to enhance your FITS images (taken with either the MicroObservatory Telescopes or other telescope images in FITS format)....
    How to Request an Image screen shot