Every year in August the night sky becomes the stage for an impressive natural phenomenon: the Perseids, a prolific meteor shower. They form when the Earth crosses the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle comet. Tiny dust and rock particles enter the atmosphere and burn up –...
Summer School participantes – group photo This year the StAnD Summer School in Marathon, Greece, welcomed a lively group of 14 teachers from five countries. Maths, physics and chemistry teachers worked alongside music and IT teachers during the week: remember...
Let’s be honest — not many classrooms are pointing virtual telescopes at galaxies yet, but that’s exactly why it’s so exciting! If you’re hesitating about taking this next step, don’t worry: this toolkit for observing asteroids with robotic telescopes is your...
StAnD and the toolkits went to the venerable Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France, on 12 June, as part of the FRIPON/Vigie-Ciel Colloquium (11-12 June 2025) which attracted over 100 people, all concerned with astronomy or geology. This historic...
On 11th, 12th and 13th April, the PRISMA network and the Erasmus+ StAnD project participated in the XIV Festa di Scienza e Filosofia, in Foligno, Italy, proposing a workshop activity for children and young people. The workshop, organised in collaboration with Chiara...
The next StAnD asteroid campaign (and the last for this school year) starts 23 April and runs until 19 May, in collaboration with IASC. If you haven’t tried this challenge, it’s not too late to sign up. You don’t need any specific material, just a basic Windows...
