North vs. South – Constellations & Moon Phases

Astronomy connects all of us. While the sky looks slightly different based on your location, when put together it is our common heritage. Understanding the differences helps us to understand the connections. In this guest post, Megan Ray Nichols briefly explains those connections, thus underlining how local perspectives can contribute to a global one. Not everyone […]

Astroproject Documentary

“From Dust to Stars” is the first film in the series of the ongoing project Astroproject. This infotainment film with a runtime of 30 mins takes you on an enriching journey of how stars are formed. It introduces to the audience the basic concepts of Astronomy by answering questions like, why do some stars shine brighter than the others?what […]

Open day announcement

On March 20th, 2017 (11:00 – 14:00)​ , at Public Special Junior High School of Thessaloniki an “Open Astronomy Day” will take place, in the context of IAU-OAD’s project «Looking … Up program! Astronomy for ALL» (http://bit.do/iau -oad-2017). We would like to thank the ‘Physics Partizani’ team for ​their ​ participation on​ to this action. […]

Activity blog

Visit the project blog at https://haitiastro2017.wordpress.com/ This year’s team consists of Tom, Dayana, Ralph, Silas, Cecil, and Sarah. We’ll be running our annual astronomy-themed workshop  this week, for an  elementary school in Les Cayes, Haiti. For our activities this year, we were inspired by two things: a little girl who made a plaster astronaut last year and […]

Events

The Sky on Bike project was proposed and conducted by SPACE, with the goal of popularizing science via Astronomy and Space Sciences throughout the domains of education, public and media. This project has been introducing the wonders of the night sky to identified groups of economically disadvantaged and uneducated population in Indian villages with the […]