ESA Science & Technology - Display Page Default
Asset Publisher
Stellar Distances
Stellar Distances
Introduction
On a clear, dark night we may be able to see a few thousand stars in the sky, a tiny proportion of the billions of stars that are thought to exist in...
Interactive
Interactive
Please note the content on this page is not maintained
Telescopes
Resolving Power
The ability to separate two objects on the night sky is...
Winners - Romania
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - United Kingdom
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - Portugal
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - Spain
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - Poland
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - Greece
Winners - Greece
10 - 12 years old - Iapetus
Authors:
Panos Fasoulopoulos
Georgia Fasoulopoulos
Μια φορά και...
Winners - Italy
More than 800 students from across Europe participated in the European Cassini scientist for a day competition 2013. Entrants to the competition wrote a 500-word proposal backing one of three...
Winners - Ireland
Winners - Ireland
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Author:
Joseph O'Donoghue
The first observation of...
Winners - Portugal
Winners - Portugal
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Authors:
Tomás de Magalhães Cardoso Moura
Se eu...
Winners - Netherlands
Winners - Netherlands
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Authors:
Khouloud
Melanie
Imraan
Er waren 3...
Winners - Spain
Winners - Spain
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Authors:
Paula Morales Palomo
Javier Morales Palomo
My...
Winners - Finland
Winners - Finland
10 - 12 years old - Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas and Saturn's rings
Author:
Normens Skola
För 400 år sedan vände Galileo Galilei sitt teleskop...
Winners - France
Winners - France
13 -15 years old - Tethys, Enceladus, Mimas, and Saturn's rings
Authors:
Louis Demiot
Alexandre Lucas
Hugo Piton
We are French students,...
Winners - United Kingdom
Winners - United Kingdom
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Author:
Tierney Wood
I think that it will benefit...
Winners - Greece
Winners - Greece
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Author:
Georgios Kafentzis
...
Winners - Romania
Winners - Romania
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Author:
Maria Miruna Solomon
În opinia mea, primul...
Winners - Italy
Winners - Italy
10 - 12 years old - Saturn's rings, with three of Saturn's moons: Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas
Authors:
Mattia Di Falco
Omar Khoujib
Taila Martini
...
Winners - Poland
Winners - Poland
10 - 12 years old - Distant image of Jupiter
Author:
Krzysztof Goliński
„Cóż za dziwny gatunek ci poeci jeśli potrafią...
Be a 'Cassini Scientist for a Day' – 2015 Competition announced
The 2015 edition of the 'Cassini Scientist for a Day' competition is now open to entries by students. The competition is designed to give the participants a taste of life as a space scientist....
Target 1 - NASA video
Target 1 - NASA video
This page provides a link to http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/Scientist-For-a-Day/2016-17/videos/target-1
...
Target 3 - NASA video
Target 3 - NASA video
This page provides a link to http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/Scientist-For-a-Day/2016-17/videos/target-3
...
Cassini Scientist for a Day 2013 Competition - Results
Cassini Scientist for a Day 2013 Competition - Results
This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=53695
...
ESA Education - Solar System and Universe resources
ESA Education - Solar System and Universe resources
This page provides a link to ...
Summer workshop 2017 - review on ESA Education website
Summer workshop 2017 - review on ESA Education website
This page provides a link to ...
Space Education International Workshop 2016 - review on Space Awareness website
Space Education International Workshop 2016 - review on Space Awareness website
This page provides a link to ...
Target 2 - NASA video
Target 2 - NASA video
This page provides a link to http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/educ/Scientist-For-a-Day/2016-17/videos/target-2
...
ESA once again brings European teachers to 'space classrooms' at ESTEC
ESA once again brings European teachers to 'space classrooms' at ESTEC
This page provides a link to ...
ESA Teachers' Summer workshop 2016 - provisional programme
ESA Teachers' Summer workshop 2016 - provisional programme
This page provides a link to ...
Inspiring European Teachers to bring space in the classroom
Inspiring European Teachers to bring space in the classroom
This page provides a link to ...
Transit of Mercury schools challenge - shared data
As soon as the transit of Mercury 2016 is complete we ask that observers submit the longitude and latitude of their location, along with the contact times you recorded (including your time...
Brainstorming
There are so many possibilities to use space in the classroom. Space can be a topic in its own right or it might be used as the "wrapping paper" to stimulate or be a vehicle for skills...
Galaxies and the Expanding Universe
Galaxies and the Expanding Universe
Structure of Milky Way
The Milky Way Galaxy, the home of our Solar System and approximately 400 billion other stars and their planets, has a...
Herschel & Planck in the classroom
Herschel & Planck in the classroom
This page provides a link to http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMPM10P0WF_0.html
...
Hubble DVD - Part 1: The Hubble Story
An introduction to the Hubble Space Telescope: why a satellite observatory is needed, how ESA and NASA came together to make HST a reality, the history of the mission to date and a look into the...
Opening of the Victoria Space Science Education Centre
The Honorable Mr. John Brumby, Victoria's State Treasurer and Minister of Innovation formally opened the Victoria Space Science Education Centre in Melbourne, Australia. The Centre was built for...
Spatium 11: Cosmic Rays
Spatium 11: Cosmic Rays
Publication date: 01 November 2003
Authors: Hansjörg Schlaepfer
Journal: SPATIUM
Volume: 11
Issue: November 2003
Year: 2003
Copyright:...
World Thinking Day
Forty million young people use communication space technology!Scouts and Guides worldwide are forefront users of 21st Century Technology/Space science spin off technologies.
Exercises in Astronomy 4 - Spanish
Exercises in Astronomy 4 - Spanish
The period and apparent magnitudes of Cepheid variables in the distant galaxy M100 are measured and, using the Period-Luminosity relationship, the...
Exercises in Astronomy 6 - Spanish
Exercises in Astronomy 6 - Spanish
By using the technique of Main Sequence fitting it is possible to determine the distance to a nearby globular cluster through the analysis of magnitude...
Exercises in Astronomy 2 - German
Exercises in Astronomy 2 - German
Astronomical Toolkit - contains formulae, explanations of their use and some examples.
Mathematical Toolkit - introduces the small-angle approximation.
...
Exercises in Astronomy 5 - German
Exercises in Astronomy 5 - German
By measuring the angular expansion velocity of the Cat's Eye Nebula by careful investigation of two Hubble images taken in 1994 and 1997 and with the...
Exercises in Astronomy 5 - Italian
Exercises in Astronomy 5 - Italian
By measuring the angular expansion velocity of the Cat's Eye Nebula by careful investigation of two Hubble images taken in 1994 and 1997 and with the...
Exercises in Astronomy 4 - Italian
Exercises in Astronomy 4 - Italian
The period and apparent magnitudes of Cepheid variables in the distant galaxy M100 are measured and, using the Period-Luminosity relationship, the...
Exercises in Astronomy 3 - Dutch
Exercises in Astronomy 3 - Dutch
Uses the geometry of the ring of debris that formed around supernova 1987A (SN1987A) to determine the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Last...
Exercises in Astronomy 6 - Italian
Exercises in Astronomy 6 - Italian
By using the technique of Main Sequence fitting it is possible to determine the distance to a nearby globular cluster through the analysis of magnitude...