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Astronomy Resources

 

Astronomy is the scientific study of celestial objects (such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies) and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere (such as cosmic background radiation).

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Books in Space

Scope on the Skies November/December 2024...

Journal Article

Who Speaks for Earth? Impacts of an Anti-Racist and Gender-Inclusive Training in an Astronomy Class

As science educators, we have an important opportunity to influence perceptions of who does science, and we can work to empower students to make our disciplines more accessible to people of all backgrounds. This goal was explicitly built into an intr...

Journal Article

Chasing Giant Ice balls

Scope on the Skies regular column. An SEL-based look at comets, their impact on society, and how they are named....

Journal Article

Transitioning from Partial to Total Understanding

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 8, 2025
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers: June 17, 2025
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 15, 2025
 

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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, March 18, 2025
 

Web Seminar

Science Update: Space Weather: The Sun, Earth, and You, December 4, 2025

Join us on Thursday, December 4, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about impending solar events and their potential impacts on Earth....
 

Web Seminar

Archive Science Update: The Wonderful World of Plasma Physics: From the Birth of Stars to Building Cell Phones, February 20, 2025

What is inside our sun and other stars? What fills up the interstellar space? What is lightning? Trying to answer similar questions that come to the curious mind expanded our understanding of what happens to matter at high enough ...
 

Journal Article

Books in Space

Scope on the Skies November/December 2024...
 

Reports Article

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, October 1, 2024
 

Reports Article

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 24, 2024
 

Journal Article

Who Speaks for Earth? Impacts of an Anti-Racist and Gender-Inclusive Training in an Astronomy Class

As science educators, we have an important opportunity to influence perceptions of who does science, and we can work to empower students to make our disciplines more accessible to people of all backgrounds. This goal was explicitly built into an intr...
 

Journal Article

Chasing Giant Ice balls

Scope on the Skies regular column. An SEL-based look at comets, their impact on society, and how they are named....
 

Web Seminar

Archive Science Update: Exoplanets: Finding Life in the Galaxy, January 30, 2025

Join exoplanet astronomer Rob Zellem, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as he discusses how we find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our own Solar System, with the goal of detecting signatures of life. He will also discuss c...

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