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There are lots of easy ideas below to help you encourage and foster a love of space in kids of all ages!
IDENTIFY what you see, with Stellarium!
IDENTIFY what you see, with Stellarium!
Children will love Stellarium!
Best with the free mobile app (upgrade for £1.79), this is a planetarium at your fingertips. Hold it up to the sky and it will tell you what you are looking at based on your location - planets, constellations, deep space objects, and satellites. Choose detailed or high-level.
Any child, anywhere, can learn about the night sky above their head. Fantastic.
Explore Orion!
Explore Orion!
Orion is a brilliant constellation to start with when you are beginning to explore the night sky.
Orion's Belt is easy to spot on a clear night (in Winter in the UK), and there are lots of interesting things to look out for within the constellation. See if you can spot:
Betelgeuse - a huge Red Giant star, 1000 times bigger than our Sun, which could explode in an enormous Supernova explosion at any time!
The Orion Nebula - our closest star-forming region, a beautiful nursery for baby stars.
Rigel - a super-hot blue supergiant star, the 7th brightest star in the night sky.
What else can you see? Here are 10 wonderful targets to see in the Orion constellation
FOLLOW the NASA Live Feed
FOLLOW the NASA Live Feed
Be the first to know about launch dates, image drops, exciting findings, and live streams with Nasa's live feed.
Click on the astronaut photo to access the live feed.
VISIT the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK
VISIT the National Space Centre in Leicester, UK
A fantastic day out for all of the family, with real-life rockets, space capsules, an awesome planetarium, and interesting history of humankind's journey to the moon!
Click here to learn more and book tickets.
LEARN from the great Brian Cox
LEARN from the great Brian Cox
Watch inspirational clips from Brian Cox's awe-inspiring series, The Wonders of the Universe.
Click on the picture to access the clips.
TRACK the Voyager spacecrafts
TRACK the Voyager spacecrafts
Track the two Voyager spacecrafts, and see how far away they are as they continue their journey into outer space!
Voyager 2 launched in the year the founder of Inspirational Space was born... and has now travelled beyond our solar system, into outer space!
Click on the picture to see where the Voyager space crafts are today!
Fantastic, free Open University course!
This fabulous course is free, no-pressure, has no assignments, and amazingly GIVES YOU ACCESS TO A REAL ACTUAL TELESCOPE, located on Mount Teide in Tenerife, which you access online. Have a look at Our Telescope Pictures to see the type of pics that you'll be able to take.
The telescope access lasts for 6 months, and you can choose any target in the universe which is visible from Tenerife at that time of year (although not wthin our solar system).
Why not give it a go!
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