Sep 26, 2025 | News
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...
Sep 25, 2025 | News
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...
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...
