Sep 22, 2025 | News
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...
Aug 14, 2025 | News
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 –...
Jul 18, 2025 | News
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...
Jun 17, 2025 | News
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...
Jun 16, 2025 | News
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...
Apr 17, 2025 | News
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...
