Discover Exoplanets There are 12 items.
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Kepler Mission: Table-top Models
Explore a series of table-top models, some ready-made and others you can build, demonstrating the principle of how Kepler will find extrasolar planets by the transit method. 0
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Make Your Own Exoplanets
In this STEAM activity, patrons make their own exoplanets using rocks, acrylic paint, popsicle sticks, and craft paper. 0
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Searching for Life
Participants learn about the characteristics of life and conduct an experiment, searching for life in different soil samples. 0
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Strange New Planet
4 Review(s)In this simulation of space exploration, participants plan and carry out five missions to a “planet” and communicate their discoveries to their family or a friend. 26016
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Investigating the Insides
Investigate the composition of unseen materials, using a variety of tools, as an analogy to how scientists discover clues about the interiors of planets using spacecraft. 0
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Exploring Earth: Bear's Shadow
In this hands-on activity designed for younger visitors and their families, participants move a flashlight around an object to make and experiment with shadows. Connect the activity to a storybook about a little bear exploring his shadow! 0
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Filtered Light
Use colored filters with art supplies like astromers use filters to study the universe. 0
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Exploring the Universe: Imagining Life
Patrons imagine extreme environments that may exist beyond Earth and create life forms that could thrive there. 0
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Exploring the Universe: Exoplanet Transits
Patrons model a method to search for exoplanets by using a lightbox and mystery objects. 0
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Art and the Cosmic Connection
3 Review(s)Using NASA imagery, participants use images as inspiration for artwork while learning about geology of planetary bodies and moons 8817
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Make Your Own TRAPPIST-1 Music
The Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that there's a pattern to the way the planets move around the TRAPPIST-1 star. When this pattern is set to music, they can portray a beautiful melody! Try taking the transit notes and add your own music to them, then share your creation on social media with #MyTrappist1. 0
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NASA's Space Jam
Learners with no prior coding experience can explore how to use computers to create and animate solar systems and then use them as a musical instrument! This scaffolded set of activities allow participants to use computer science to understand our universe and to create music based on astronomical data. 0
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