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TEACHER RESOURCE PLANETARIUM STARDOME OBSERVATORY & TIES ON... TIVI FACTS, RESOURCES AND AC L A I R T S E R R EXTRA-TE IES OBSERVATOR passed between Galileo’s Over three hundred years raand the proposal of an ext astronomical exploration ical om ron the 1960’s, the first ast terrestrial observatory. In ing bit with the launch of the Or telescope went into space signed (OSO). The OSO was de Astronomical Observatory um, raviolet side of the spectr to collect light on the ult agery, im l ducing fantastic visua rather than visible. Not pro were ical space observatories meant the first astronom d to cessor that was designe overshadowed by their suc ible. vis ing lud gths of light – inc observe multiple wavelen in ope (HST) was launched The Hubble Space Telesc le tab gest and most adap 1990 and is one of the lar ing over 11,000kg, its space telescopes. 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Check back soon for farther away than Hubb o decades During itsstpwace, Hubble in outer n running on has bee wable energy 100 renesolar panels. from its SCIENC CONTEN E T/ CURRIC ULUM L APPREC INK IATE ASK QU THAT SCIENTIS E T OUR WO STIONS ABOUT S TO INVE RLD THAT LEAD THAT OP STIGATIONS AN IMPORTA EN-MINDEDNES D S IS NT B MAY BE ECAUSE THERE MORE T H ONE EX PLANAT AN ION. Horsehead Nebu la. Image credit : NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Check out other reso these urces... Hubble websit e– ubbles ite.org/ James Webb constru c http://w tion live feed – ww.jws t.nasa.g ov/ http://h DISCUSSION POINTS ubble have so Why does mHents on board? many instru What are the hundreds of space telescopes and probes doing, and what have we learnt from them? STARDOME.ORG.NZ 09 624 1246 TEACHER RESOURCE PLANETARIUM STARDOME OBSERVATORY & TIES ON... TIVI FACTS, RESOURCES AND AC N O I T C U D O INTR S E P O C S E L E TO T SCIENC CONTEN E T/ CURRIC ULUM L APPREC INK IATE ASK QU THAT SCIENTIS E T OUR WO STIONS ABOUT S TO INVE RLD THAT LEAD THAT OP STIGATIONS AN IMPORT EN–MINDEDNES D ANT BEC S IS AU MAY BE MORE T SE THERE H AN O EXPLAN ATION. NE plications in invented for terrestrial ap The first telescope was ey, Zacharias Dutchmen, Hans Lippersh the Netherlands by three ed with the s. Often, Galileo is credit Jansen and Jacob Metiu ope was inspired by the invention, but his telesc ile he wasn’t the original Dutchmen’s design. Wh to he was the first person creator of the telescope, s. ion vat ronomical obser point one skyward for ast ts could also magnify objec The Galilean telescope r the r than three times large thirty times larger, rathe nage. original versions could ma her d focuses light using eit A telescope collects an of es are two main typ mirrors or lenses. There g and reflecting. A refractin telescopes – refracting e HOW A ile a reflecting telescop telescope uses lenses wh the of d en REFLECTOR mirror at the uses mirrors. The lens or ht lig rs the TELESCOPE telescope ga from a large area and WORKS collects it into a smaller area to make a brighter image. A magnifying lens, aka the eyepiece, image and enlarges then takes that brighter more detail. it so that we can see it in ny different shapes Telescopes come in ma u can set up at and sizes – small ones yo Zeiss telescope Edith Winstone Blackwell the like es on The Very Large Telescope r ge lar to , home n get very large indeed – http://www.eso.org/public/ ca es op esc tel t, fac In . at Stardome teles-instr/paranal/ Large Telescope’! escope named ‘The Very ter main – located in Chile is a tel me dia m 8.2 h wit ch ea it Telescopes, There, you’ll find four Un to see details er to enable astronomers eth tog rk wo n ca t tha rs mirro individually. en the telescopes used wh n tha l tai de er fin es up to 25 tim about es here on Earth. Orbiting There aren’t just telescop escopes in history. is one of the greatest tel 569 kilometers above us tory here. extra-terrestrial observa Find out more about the Mirror lescope The wordotme Ancient derives fr le’ meaning Greek, ‘te‘skopein’ is far, and or see. to look Check out this other resource... DISCUSSION POINTS mical What asturldonyoou use object woe to look at? a telescop How does seeing further away give us the ability to see back in time? STARDOME.ORG.NZ 09 624 1246 ACTIVITY PLANETARIUM STARDOME OBSERVATORY & R U O Y D L BUI ! E P O C S E L OWN TE is to give your students Each of these activities of telescopes. a better understanding Years 1-4 roduces children to the The Star Craft activity int es how land based telescop concept of constellations, . sky ht nig m to look up at the work and encourages the the instructions. Click here to download Years 5-8 , ation game from NASA Using a clever flash anim s for about some of the reason your students can learn ments get to select which instru building satellites. They would y the rse part of our unive are on board and which will nts de of the game, your stu like to study. At the end is t ation about a satellite tha be presented with inform one they designed. the most similar to the sa.gov/build.html Click here http://jwst.na Years 9-13 your students can build On their own, or in pairs James Webb telescope. a model of Hubble or the es and some time, but You’ll need some suppli l help your students completing the craft wil truments a satellite understand how many ins they are used for. has on board, and what model templates: Download the free NASA • Hubble _telescope/hand-held_ http://hubblesite.org/the te.php hubble/paper-intermedia • James Webb ermodel_swales.html http://jwst.nasa.gov/pap ity and iv t c a r u o y f o o t Take a pho . We’d love to see it! send it to [email protected] education STARDOME.ORG.NZ 09 624 1246