StAnD Summer School: Turning Theory into Practice!

StAnD Summer School: Turning Theory into Practice!

The first StAnD Summer School, held in Marathon, Greece, was not just a week of professional development, it was also an opportunity for participating teachers from Germany, Greece, Italy and Portugal to meet each other and get to grips with this amazing project to...
Summer School Programme Now Available

Summer School Programme Now Available

After months of careful planning and consultation, StAnD is ready to release the programme for the teachers’ summer school in Marathon, Greece. The programme is available here: Summer School Programme.  It can be lonely in space, but in our Summer School for the...
Second StAnD Project Meeting

Second StAnD Project Meeting

The StAnD project partners at Palácio do Marquês de Pombal, Oeiras, Portugal. From 23 to 24 May 2024 the partners of StAnD (INAF, NUCLIO, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, FTP-Europlanet and COSPAR) met in person in Oeiras, Portugal. The meeting was hosted by NUCLIO and took...
First Meteor Detected by StAnD Prototype Camera!

First Meteor Detected by StAnD Prototype Camera!

We are proud to announce that the StAnD camera prototype has detected its very first meteor! The excitement started on 21 April, and we are now able to release the animation of the detection, thanks to the hard work of the StAnD team at Istituto Nazionale di...
From Hans-Freudenberg-Schule Weinheim into Space!

From Hans-Freudenberg-Schule Weinheim into Space!

Read about how the technical Gymnasium in Weinheim, Germany operates remote-controlled telescopes in Hawaii and Australia. In April, the first German Multiplier-Event for StAnD took place at the Hans-Freudenberg-Schule in Weinheim. The local physics course, group TG2,...
Stunning meteor lit up the skies over Portugal and Spain

Stunning meteor lit up the skies over Portugal and Spain

Last Saturday night (May 18, 2024) a very bright meteor – a bolide – lit up the skies over Spain and Portugal. The fireball was registered by meteor cameras such as AllSky7 operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), as well by dozens of individuals who...