Astronomy Resources

Web Seminar

NSTA Indianapolis is coming, and your best conference experience starts now! Join us on Thursday, October 8, 2026, from 7:00–8:15 PM ET, for an interactive webinar designed to help you plan your schedule, navigate the conference, and maximize y...

Web Seminar

Headed to the NSTA National Conference in Indianapolis? Make every moment count! Join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, from 7:00–8:15 PM ET, for an interactive webinar that will help you navigate the conference with confidence, build meaningful ...

Web Seminar

Every great conference begins with great proposal reviewers. Help shape the 2027 NSTA Spring Conference in Boston. Join us on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, from 7:00–8:15 PM ET, for an interactive webinar that will equip you with the tools and g...

NSTA Kids

Invite readers to step outside, look up, and rediscover the wonder of the night sky. With poetic language and vivid imagery, Next Time You See a Star transforms the science of stars into an inspiring journey of discovery. Readers learn how light trav...

Web Seminar

Max Mutchler from the Space Telescope Science Institute will present new images and recent science results from the Hubble Space Telescope, on the eve of the 36th anniversary of its launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. To learn more about the ...

Web Seminar

A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the third interstellar object, known as 3I/ATLAS and resembling a comet, traveling at 130,000 miles per hour within our solar system using the crisp vision of Hubble. This breathtaking spri...

Web Seminar

The Sun is constantly churning and bubbling. In addition to the radiation that supports life on Earth, the Sun often releases particles energetic enough to harm Earth-based and near-Earth assets. Just like meteorologists are able to interpret weather...

Web Seminar

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

Scope on the Skies November/December 2024...

Journal Article

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

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

Web Seminar

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...