Congratulations to the participants in the first StAnD Asteroid Campaign of 2025-26! Our StAnD teams notched up 14 preliminary detections, a new record for us! Of these, seven were made by the Emine Emir Sahbaz Science and Art Center in Turkey, five by the Collège...
At this year’s Youth Academy in September, curious students turned into space detectives during the workshop “Introduction to Micrometeorites,” organised by the Department for Gifted Education at the State School Office for the Bergstraße and Odenwald regions in...
Last Friday (27th of September), researchers and general public across Europe came together to celebrate the European Researchers’ Night, an event that aims to bring science closer to everyday citizens. And StAnD could not be absent from this amazing initiative!...
StAnD started off as a European project, but it has already surpassed our expectations by reaching well beyond the five original countries involved (France, Greece, Germany, Italy and Portugal). We now have participants from as far away as Uzbekistan, and this week we...
Artist’s impression of the asteroid Lutetia making a close approach to a planet in the early Solar System. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser and Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) We’re thrilled to announce that for this first asteroid campaign of 2025-26, StAnD teams have...
On the night of 17 September, the StAnD all-sky camera toolkit installed at a school in Nice, in the south of France, detected a fireball! The StAnD camera produced this series of images clearly showing this great ball of fire: Video of the fireball spotted by the...
