Featured Events

• Students do research with the Hubble Space Telescope: For the first time ever, K-12 classrooms used this unique optical telescope by deciding what astronomical bodies to study, watching while the satellite was prepared to capture their data, and then interpreting the scientific significance of their observations.

• "Making Your Observations" on March 14, 1996 a live, one-hour interactive telecast linked students to the Space Telescope Science Institute and to the Goddard Space Flight Center, to witness the acquisition of "their" data.

• "Announcing Your Results" A second live interactive telecast enabled students to interpret and understand their observations, now enhanced by image processing. In the meantime, they could watch Marc Buie Analyzing our Pluto images as he shared his progress online.

• Happy Birthday, Dr. Clyde Tombaugh! Students helped Dr. Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930, to celebrate his 90th birthday on February 4th. Check out the terrific participation!

• Collaborative Weather Activity in which students measured local weather conditions and shared their data with each other.

• Introduction to Image Processing Lessons help you in activities that let your students manipulate real planet images, replicating the actions of professional astronomers and point you to freely available software.

• Challenge Questions provided a new riddle each Monday. The answer was provided the following week.

• Live interactions with NASA experts were offered via CU-SeeMe and WebChat.

• Star Census Classroom Collaboratory had students study the night sky, discuss their first-hand observations locally and share results with a national audience.