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...
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...
