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The Rosetta Mission
The Rosetta Mission has captured the interest and imagination of a generation and it is not over yet! Take a look at our video which explains what Rosetta and Philae have achieved as well as the impact the mission has had on our knowledge of our very own solar system.
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The Probability of Life in the Milky Way
In this activity students use the famous Drake equation to estimate the number of planets that may harbour intelligent life in the Milky Way.
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The history of the Universe
Students create their own timeline of the evolution of the Universe.
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Time Dilation by a Black Hole
Students use special relativity to calculate the effects of a black hole on time. Accompanies the video 'What's inside a black hole?'.
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The Force of Gravity
Students look at the behaviour of gravity with distance to calculate the gravitational forces between people and celestial objects. Accompanies the video 'How will the Universe end?'.
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Stellar Sat Nav
In this classroom activity, students will use bearings to plot constellations. They are then asked to think about what they represent.
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Stars and the H-R Diagram
Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how stars can be categorised and their evolution studied by tracking their movement across a very important graph in stellar evolution - the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
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Royal Observatory Greenwich Star Trump Cards
A classroom activity to accompany the video 'Story of Stars' about classifying the different types of stars in the Universe.
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Star Trails and Sidereal Day
In this activity students use star trails to calculate the true rotation period of the Earth. Students can make their own star trails inside the classroom - watch the video 'Making star trails'.
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Solar System Holiday
This resource contains fact files about the Sun, the planets and Pluto along with a song that follows Ted and Plant on their adventures around the Solar System. The fact files and song can be used together or separately and are designed to introduce students to some of the main bodies in our solar system and what they are like.