Basic Projects
Click on a project name or image to select a project.
Name |
Description |
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Scavenger Hunt |
Look through the SkyServer database to go on a
scavenger hunt through the sky! |
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The Universe |
How big is the universe? Bigger than you could imagine - and
getting bigger every day! Experience the expanding
universe for yourself. |
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Asteroids! |
Learn about asteroids, the wandering space rocks in our own Solar System,
then look through SkyServer to find them. SkyServer has more than 100,000 asteroids for you to
find! |
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Types of Stars |
With powerful telescopes, astronomers can see many
millions of stars. How can you make sense of so many stars?
In this
project, you'll figure out a way to organize stars into just a
few categories, and you'll learn what these categories mean. |
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Color |
Look up at the sky - what do you see?
If you're near a city, you may
see a few bright white stars. But you're not really seeing the full story of the sky -
stars have colors!
In this project, you'll see stars in beautiful shades of
red, blue, and yellow, and you'll why stars have colors. |
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Galaxies |
Galaxies are huge - hundreds of millions of times bigger
than our solar system. But even the nearest ones are so far away they
look like tiny, fuzzy spots in the sky.
How do astronomers study things
that are so big and so far away? In this project, you'll learn by looking
at galaxies yourself. |
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