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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

This paper presents and compares the findings from conventional physical visits, technology supported with content organisation and visualization tools physical and virtual visits of 12th grade students to the Eugenides Foundation Interactive Exhibition.

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.

Discover with Lucas and Ann the secrets of Cassini-Huygens, the NASA/ESA/ASI joint mission to Saturn and its moon, Titan.

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.

Assembling instructions for the Galileo Orbys Spica Telescope Kit

Just as hunters can identify animals from tracks in mud or snow, physicists identify subatomic particles from the traces they leave in detectors

explore Natura 2000 sites in every part of the EU at the press of a button

Nuclear fission experimental setup, reconstructed at the Deutsches Museum, Munich

Virtual Exchibition with 22 objects

One thousand years ago in ancient desert cities, Islamic scientists discovered the principles of flight, defined the theory of vision, developed trigonometry and the numeral system that we use today, and pioneered techniques in quantitative chemistry. While Europe languished in the Dark Ages, Islamic cities had paved streets with kerosene street lights, and they used advanced methods for town planning and architecture.