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Media
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Stellarium
Here is a great program for viewing the night sky that students may be interested in playing around with. There are several of these type programs on the Internet if you do a search. The one that we have been looking at in 3rd grade, and will in 5th also, is Stellarium. It is available at Stellarium.org. It can be downloaded to Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Just How Small We Are
Astronomy
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| Did you watch the video? Hard to imagine….but wait, VV Cephei is NOT the largest star known. Since this video was made, there has been a more recent discovery of another star that is believed to be larger than VV Cephei.Most of the stars shown in this video are common stars that we can see…part of our constellations! Betelgeuse is in the constellation of Orion. If you can find Orion, Betelgeuse is the reddish-colored star. It is a red giant. Polaris is the North Star. |