Discover Exoplanets There are 12 items.
Our solar system isn’t the only one out there. This collection is centered around STAR Net’s Discover Exoplanets collection. Patrons create their own exoplanet, learn about the characteristics of life, and discover how exoplanets are found.
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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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