AstroEDU. EU-HOU. Hands-On Universe. EuroVO for education - Download. Note: our project depends on your appreciation. If you found our products useful, please reference it in your work, send us an email or like us on Facebook. Software Stellarium Stellarium simulates a realistic sky on the screen of the PC, like it could be seen by naked eye or with a telescope from anywhere on the earth and at any time.
Stellarium may be used by anybody, but in particular it may be useful to teachers for exploring the night sky and the basics of the celestial sphere. It is also a useful tool for amateur astronomers who wish to plan an observing session. Software Aladin Aladin is an interactive celestial ATLAS for the visualization of digital images available in VO format, together with a selection of large area sky surveys. Note: In order to use the simplified version of Aladin open the menu EDIT > USER PREFERENCES > PROFILE, select “undergraduate” and restart Aladin.
Software SimPlay SimPlay is a fast viewer of astronomical images available online. Screenshots. Faulkes Telescope Education Resources. Live_ISS_Stream on USTREAM: Live video from the International Space Station includes internal views when the crew is on-duty and Earth views at other times. If the Moon Was Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system.
Mercury Venus Earth You Are Here Moon Mars Jupiter Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Saturn Titan Uranus Neptune Pluto(we still love you) That was about 10 million km (6,213,710 mi) just now. Pretty empty out here. Here comes our first planet... As it turns out, things are pretty far apart. We’ll be coming up on a new planet soon. Most of space is just space. Halfway home. Destination: Mars! It would take about seven months to travel this distance in a spaceship. Sit back and relax. When are we gonna be there? Seriously. This is where we might at least see some asteroids to wake us up.
I spy, with my little eye... something black. If you were on a road trip, driving at 75mi/hr, it would have taken you over 500 years to get here from earth. All these distances are just averages, mind you. If you plan it right, you can actually move relatively quickly between planets. Pretty close to Jupiter now. Sorry. Lots of time to think out here... Pop the champagne! We're always trying to come up with metaphors for big numbers. Apollo Image Atlas, 70mm Hasselblad Image Catalog. Bibliothèque virtuelle d'astrophysique. 8 Planets.
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