Educational Resources
Educational Resources
| Description | Website |
|---|---|
| NASA Night Sky Network |  |
| NASA for Educators | |
| NASA Student Programs (Higher Ed) | |
| The Space Place (Elementary-Adults) | |
| Starchild (Elementary and Middle School) | |
| NASA Kids Club | |
| Imagine the Universe (age 14 and up) | |
| NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (High School & College Participation) | |
| Astronomy Picture of the Day | |
| SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) | |
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) | |
| Science @ NASA | |
| JPL Solar System Ambassador Program | |
| NASA | |
| Deep Space Network | |
| International Space Station | |
| Goddard Space Flight Center Education Programs | |
| The Cosmic Distance Scale | |
| Astronomy Education Resources ASP | |
What is in the Sky Tonight?
| What is in the Sky Tonight? | Website |
|---|---|
| Star Gazers (Weekly Episodes) | |
| Sky Maps | |
| Sky and Telescope Magazine, Sky at a Glance | |
| Astronomy Magazine | |
| International Space Station | |
| Satellite Visibility (Shuttle, ISS, HST) Sky Maps, Constellations, etc. | |
| Spot the Station (NASA will send an alert when the International Space Station is passing over your area!) | |
Telescopes/Observatories/Spacecraft
| Description | Website |
|---|---|
| What type of telescope should I get? | |
| Eyes on the Solar System | |
| Hard Labor Creek Observatory | |
| Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble Space Telescope) | |
| James Webb Space Telescope | |
| Additional, James Webb Space Telescope | |
| Chandra X-Ray Observatory | |
| Spitzer Space Telescope | |
| Spitzer Space Telescope (Infrared) | |
| Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) | |
Solar System
| Solar System | Description | Website |
|---|---|---|
| Earth | JASON (Ocean surface topography from space) |
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| Moon | Exploring the Moon Teacher’s Guide | |
| Missions into the Solar System | JPL Missions | |
| Missions into the Solar System | Spacecraft Paper Models | |
| Comets | Rosetta | |
| Asteroids | Near Earth Objects | |
| Asteroids | Asteroid Watch | |
| Asteroids | DAWN (Mission to Asteroids Vesta and Ceres) | |
| Asteroids | NEAR-Shoemaker (Mission to Asteroid Eros) | |
| Asteroids | NEAR-Shoemaker Spacecraft Paper Model | |
| Mercury | MESSENGER (Mission to orbit Mercury, March 2004) | |
| Mars | Mars Mission | |
| Mars | Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) | |
| Mars | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005) | |
| Mars | Mars Global Surveyor | |
| Mars | 2001 Mars Odyssey | |
| Jupiter | Juno | |
| Jupiter | Juno | |
| Jupiter | Galileo (Mission to Jupiter and its moons) | |
| Saturn | Cassini-Huygens (Mission to Saturn and Titan) | |
| Pluto | Pluto-Kuiper Express New Horizons (Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, 2006) | |
| Sun | Space Weather | |
| Sun | More Space Weather | |
| Sun | Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) | |
| Sun | Stereo | |
| Sun | SOHO (Mission studying the sun) | |
| Sun | HESSI | |
| Sun | Heliophysics | |
| Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) | Planet Quest | |
| Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) | KEPLER (Mission to look for terrestrial extrasolar planets, 2006) | |
| Exoplanets or Extrasolar Planets (Planets orbiting other stars outside our solar system in the Milky Way) | Planet Hunters (you can participate in finding exoplanets using the Kepler star light graphs!) | |
| Galaxies | Galex (Galaxy Evolution Explorer) | |
| Planetaria | Worldwide Planetarium Database | |
| Planetaria | Southeastern Planetarium Association list of regional planetaria | |
| Planetaria | Georgia Southern University Planetarium (Statesboro, GA) | |
| Astronomy Club | Astronomy Clubs in America | |
| Astronomy Club | Statesboro Astronomy Club | |
| Astronomy Club | Sky and Telescope | |
| Astronomy Club | Oglethorpe Astronomical Association | |
| Calendars | Space Place Calendar | |
Last updated: 4/20/2022
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Contact Us
Clayton Heller, PhD
Director, Planetarium
Dillon Marcy
Coordinator, Planetarium
Operating Hours:
Monday-Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Closed Weekends
P.O. Box 8031, Statesboro, GA 30460
Phone: (912) 478-5292
Email: planetarium@georgiasouthern.edu
Email is our preferred form of communication.
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