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Give this Celestial Treasure Hunt handout to your star party visitors before they tour the telescopes so they can hunt for different types of astronomical objects!
Your visitors become teams of scientists living on a planet orbiting a distant star. They are on the threshold of exploring their own planetary system for the first time
NASA Night Sky Network members joined us on August 29, 2018 when we heard from Knicole Colon with an update on the TESS mission.
These colorful exoplanet postcards, featuring beautiful illustrations by renowned space artist Lynette Cook, showcase some of what's known about planets orbiting other stars. Uploaded: November 2005
This set of cards is designed to give telescope operators and other night sky interpreters a new way of explaining the night sky to your scope's visitors. You can download the PDFs to your tablet or even print them out onto cardstock.
The PlanetQuest Toolkit's complete manual provides hands-on activities and observing using telescopes to learn about discovering exoplanets: planets orbiting other stars. :
This presentation describes the search for planets around other stars and the Kepler mission that searched for these elusive worlds. Includes suggested script.
Where are the distant worlds in the night sky? Use these monthly star maps to find constellations and to identify stars with extrasolar planets.
This activity helps explain why telescopes in space can be more effective than telescopes on Earth. You can demonstrate why stars twinkle and show how atmospheric conditions impact the quality of what telescopes can see..
This activity describes techniques scientists use to find planets orbiting other stars, wth a focus on both the wobble and transit methods of detection.