Discover the COSMOS

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60 second adventure in Astronomy

A series of 14 one-minute cartoons, created by the Open University, explaining selected astronomical topics. The last two cartoons, listed above, were developed for Gaia. The other 12 cartoons in the series are: The Big Bang, Supernovae, Exoplanets, A Day on Mercury, The Rotating Moon, Life on Mars, Event Horizons, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Special Relativity, Large Hadron Collider and Black Holes. - See more at: http://gaia.ac.uk/multimedia#60-sec

art@CMS_Art of Science Beauty in Creation

Art@CMS is an education and outreach initiative of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Art@CMS seeks to act as an inspiring springboard for engaging the public in general, and youth in particular, in the excitement of scientific research in High Energy Physics (HEP).

CERN-ATLAS Event - How ATLAS Detects Particles (video)

This is a segment of the movie 'Episode II, The Particles Strike Back', illustrating how the ATLAS detector detects different types of particles.

Discover the COSMOS

Explanation: This webcam and telescope image of banded gas giant Jupiter shows the transit of three shadows cast by Jupiter's moons in progress, captured in Belgian skies on October 12 at 0528 UT. Such a three shadow transit is a relatively rare event, even for a large planet with many moons. Visible in the frame are the three Galilean moons responsible, Callisto at the far left edge, Io closest to Jupiter's disk, and Europa below and just left of Io. Of their shadows on the sunlit Jovian cloud tops, Callisto casts the most elongated one near the planet's south polar region at the bottom.

EU Universe Awareness: Inspiring every child with our wonderful cosmos

EU-UNAWE follows the same vision as UNAWE: to use the beauty and grandeur of the Universe to inspire young children and encourage them to develop an interest in science and technology. The programme also aims to introduce children to the idea of global citizenship and tolerance at a crucial stage of their development – to show them that they are part of an international community.

First Total Lunar Eclipse of 2014: The Complete Skywatcher's Guide

GAIA to map our Galaxy

A global space astrometry mission, Gaia will make the largest, most precise three-dimensional map of our Galaxy by surveying more than a thousand million stars.

Hang out video: Wakeup, Rosetta! 100 day count-down begins

A hang out on the beginning of the 100-day countdown to the Rosetta Spacecraft beginning its exploration of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. On wakeup day, ESA will beam messages from groups around the world to the spacecraft. You can contribute your own wakeup message on the Rosetta Facebook page: http://woobox.com/vqgzq5 (there are some really cool ones posted already). During this hangout, we'll show some of the best videos, so enter your own today and potentially see it on-air on January 20. Want to share your video with our community now?

Interested in bringing innovation into your school? Then join us on Open Discovery Space!

An introduction on how my school can join Open Discovery Space.

Interested in bringing innovation into your school? Then join us on Open Discovery Space!

An introduction on how my school can join Open Discovery Space.

ISON comet with SOHO images

Images taken by the SOHO satellite (Lasco C3) showing the trajectory of the ISON comet towards the Sun. The Sun in these images is covered and would have the size of the white circle. Amazing ejection of coronal material can also be seen in this movie. The movie was done using the free software for image processing, Salsa J

ISON vs FIRE

Lesson Plans and Resources for Arts Integration in Science curricula

All teachers at Bates Middle School are expected to use arts integration in their classrooms. Dance in science, pop art in Spanish, or photography in math -- there’s no end to the ways arts can be integrated into other curricula. Educators from Bates Middle School, in Annapolis, Maryland, share arts-integrated lessons and resources that you can use in your school. Science teacher Stacey Burke (center) and her colleagues share some of their arts-integrated lessons.

Open Discovery Space Webinar: "Organise a virtual visit to ATLAS experiment at CERN"

Rosetta orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Rosetta’s 11-year expedition began in March 2004, with an Ariane 5 launch from Kourou in French Guiana, and the spacecraft was then sent on its way towards the outer Solar System. The long journey includes three gravity assists at Earth (2004, 2007, 2009), one at Mars (2007), and two asteroid encounters: (2867) Steins (2008) and (21) Lutetia (2010).

SCIENCE@ESA: CHASING COMETS

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The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector

The beautiful scientific instrument designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy collisions in the LHC at CERN.

Under the same sky: GalileoMobile Documentary

Through children's eyes, an encounter from different visions and interpretations of the sky is made, from East to West and from ancient times to modern astronomy, exploring the richness of human culture preserved in the traditions of the Andean people. This documentary has been produced for educational purposes and it has no commercial value.

Understanding Particle Physics (education game)

CERN will develop an e-learning game, building on experiences with primitive prototypes already developed by CERN, in which players try to “tune” a simulation of high-energy particle collisions to give an optimal description of a chosen set of reference data, while simultaneously learning about particle physics. Ultimately, it should be possible for a Mrs. Smith, playing “Virtual Atom Smasher” in her spare time, to find a parameter set which is superior to the default one (which provides a natural scoring target).

Video από τη σύνδεση του Πρότυπου Πειραματικού Γυμνασίου και Λυκείου Πατρών με το CERN

Εικονική επίσκεψη στο CERN: τι χρειάζομαι;

Μία περιγραφή του απαιτούμενου εξοπλισμού και των απαιτήσεων για την εικονική επίσκεψη ενός σχολείου στο CERN.

Εικονική επίσκεψη στο CERN: τι χρειάζομαι;

Μία περιγραφή του απαιτούμενου εξοπλισμού και των απαιτήσεων για την εικονική επίσκεψη ενός σχολείου στο CERN.

Ταξίδι στο Διαστρικό Κενό: Η αποστολή Voyager

"Ο ηλιακός άνεμος κόπασε. Το Voyager 1 πλησιάζει το διαστρικό κενό» δήλωσε ο Εντ Στόουν, επιστημονικός υπεύθυνος της αποστολής στο Ινστιτούτο Τεχνολογίας της Καλιφόρνιας (Caltech)". Η ανακοίνωση αυτή της NASΑ (στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2010) αποτέλεσε την αφορμή για τη δημιουργία της παρούσας θεματικής παρουσίασης. Δείτε περισσότερα κάνοντας click στο "View resource".