Published: 19th October 2026 12:45 (UTC)

The NAEC Chile team hosted the 5th edition of the Chilean Astronomy Education Conference. This year's conference took place between July 1st and 3rd at Fundación Parque de la Ciencia in Santo Domingo (Valparaiso region, central Chile). It brought together around 70 participants, including in-service and pre-service teachers, astronomy and science education researchers, and science communicators.

The conference included invited talks about light pollution, the Rubin Observatory, planet formation, astronomy for pre-school education, and galaxy citizen science. It also had various contributed talks and posters sharing astronomy education research results or pedagogical experiences, several hands-on workshops, a final astronomy education discussion panel, and day and night telescope observations.

         

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