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Big Dipper
Credit: Arya Anthony/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Orion Rises Over Mount Etna
Credit: Dario Giannobile/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Luminous Salar de Uyuni
Credit: Stephanie Ye Ziyi/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Hunter in the Forest
Credit: René Antonio Urroz Álvarez/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Pleiades M45 with Majestic Dust
Credit: Mohamed Usama/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Watchtower and Paddy Fields Under the Starry Sky
Credit: Likai Lin/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Winter Constellations
Credit: Mohamed Aboushelib/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Kingdom of Orion
Credit: Carlos Zudaire/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Big Dipper in Yellowstone, by Alex Conu, Norway
Credit: Alex Conu/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Death of a massive star
Credit: ESO/NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/F. Vogt et al. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons

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Touching the stars
astroEDU activity (links to astroEDU website)
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Orion constellation in 3D
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Moving constellations
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Make your own Sun!
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Is the Sun rotating? Follow the sunspots!
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Reading the Rainbow
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Street Lights as Standard Candles
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Create Your Own Astro-Music
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Star Hats
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Make a Star Lantern
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Selected Diagrams

A line of stars goes from cool faint stars to hot bright stars. Some stars lie above or below this line

Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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Seven bands with bright and dark patches. The brightest part of the band moves from blue in the top band to red at the bottom

Stellar spectral types - bands
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Seven lines. The peak of each line moves from short wavelengths for the top line to longer wavelengths for the bottom line.

Stellar spectral types
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A choppy line increasing at longer wavelengths with large wide dips and a few sharper dips.

Spectrum of an M-type star
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A ragged line peaking about 580 nm then declining at longer wavelengths with a few deeper dips.

Spectrum of a K-type star
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A quite ragged line peaking about 470 nm then declining at longer wavelengths with a few deeper dips.

Spectrum of a G-type star
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Videos

The Milky Way rises from the horizon over a landscape with trees, water and the distant glow of city lights

Flowing Night Sky
Flowing Night Sky
Credit: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE
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Over a cluster of small telescope domes the Milky Way juts upward from the horizon. Two fuzzy blobs are on the right

Chilean Nights
Chilean Nights
Credit: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE
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Header image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen
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