As part of the "Discover the Cosmos" e-twinning programme, the Faulkes Telescope Project are planning a series of "Themed Observing Days ...

 
May 10th to 24th, 2013
A number of teachers from a disseminated area in the region of Castilla la Mancha have been participating wit ...

April 19th, 2013La Hita Astronomical Observatory
This activity was the culmination of a serial of four workshops dedicated to Astronomy t ...

On Tuesday 16th of April, a meeting with teachers was held at La Hita Observatory (La Puebla de Almoradiel, province of Toledo).
The work ...

Two Masterclasses organized by the Discover the COSMOS took place in the Greek island of Samos on 18 and 19th of April. Samos is one of the East Aegean islands with 35000 inhabitants, the birthplace of Pythagoras, just a few hundred meters away from the Asia Minor coast. The first Masterclass which included a morning lecture by the coordinator Prof.

On March 11th an ATLAS Masterclasses, organized by the Discover the COSMOS, took place at CERN. Twenty eight students and two teachers from the S Series Euro section, Lycée Saint Michel in the nearby city of Annecy, France visited CERN and became “researchers for day”. The activities included lectures, “hands-on” workshop with the HYPATIA analysis tool, a visit to the ATLAS control room and a video conferencing with three other schools across Europe. The detailed program is given below:
The masterclass will be in english
Experience: ATLAS
Date: March 11, 2013

Sofia Science Festival
Events and workshops aiming to bring young people, teachers, parents and the public closer to science
The Sofia ...

This extraordinary image taken by the Gemini South 8.2-m telescope depicts hot bullets of gas tracing their way through the Orion Nebula. The Orion Bullets have been ejected from the Trapezium cluster of bright, young stars at the heart of the star-forming region. In this false-colour infrared view, the blue bullets are clumps of hot gas (around 5000 K) with a size of about 10 times Pluto’s orbit. Traveling with a speed of about 400 km/s they leave behind the orange cone-shaped wakes of shock-heated gas.

The Discover the COSMOS Challenge is open to teachers and students from all over the world. The challenge is designed to encourage collabora ...