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Passport Through Time: Telescopes As Time Machines [Handout - Our Galaxy Our Universe]

Passport Through Time: Telescopes As Time Machines [Handout - Our Galaxy Our Universe]

  • Nighttime Event
  • Target Audience
  • Adult, Child, Teen
  • 01/18/2005
The "Passport Through Time" handout shows the difference between each of three different distance categories: within our Solar System, within the Milky Way, and within the rest of the universe.

You can hand these out to your visitors at star parties to help guide their tour of the telescopes.

The first file includes an activity description guide. The second file is just the handout.
Use the link to this month's starmap to find out what you can see in the sky.

This resource is part of the Our Galaxy Our Universe Toolkit

Uploaded: January 2005

 

Video

Telescopes as Time Machines

Demonstration of the activity on YouTube.