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Make a star scope
Make your own constellations and asterisms with our star scope!
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Magnetic Meteorites
Meteorites are bits of space rock from the asteroid belt. Some are magnetic. This activity accompanies the video 'Space Rocks'.
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Looking for a habitable exoplanet
Students learn about the transit method for finding planets and they use Kepler's 3rd law to determine whether the exoplanet Kepler-22b is habitable.
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Landing on a Comet
In this activity students look at the relationship between mass and weight on the Earth and on a comet.
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Kepler’s 3rd Law
A classroom activity in which students explore the relationship between the distances of planets from the stars they orbit and their orbital periods.
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Journey times to alien worlds
A classroom activity where students use distance, speed and time and light-years to calculate the time of travel to exoplanets.
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Human Sundial
An outdoor experiment in which students observe, record, and explain why their shadows change throughout the day.
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Hubble's Law
Students look at the relationship between velocity and distance of a galaxy and what that means for the Universe. Accompanies the video 'How big is the Universe'.
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How do we See Things?
In this practical activity, students investigate the effect of light on the size of the pupils in our eyes and learn about how we see objects that give off their own light and those that don’t. Accompanies the video ‘Seeing The Invisible’.
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How do we know how old the Sun is?
ROG astronomer Brendan explains how we determine the age of our Solar System from space rocks and how we can work out how long the Sun has left before it engulfs the inner planets.