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Created for the OAE This panoramic dawn image shows the majestic band of the Milky Way.
Credit: Amirreza Kamkar/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE The Geminid meteor shower over China
Credit: Hao Yin/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE This spectacular image captures some of the most dramatic expressions of Nature, the eruption of a volcano and the night sky.
Credit: Dario Giannobile/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Neowise's metamorphosis, by Tomáš Slovinský and Petr Horálek, Slovakia
Credit: Tomáš Slovinský and Petr Horálek/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE This image shows multiple features related to ice halos, which are a more common appearance around the sun, due to its brightness, than the moon.
Credit: Thomas Gigl/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE This rich panoramic image shows a range of constellations, deep sky objects and planets.
Credit: Robert Barsa/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Lunar rainbow and lunar Brocken spectre, by Kouji Ohnishi, Japan
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Created for the OAE Total lunar eclipses belong to the rather spectacular celestial events and can be observed easily with and without a telescope.
Credit: Muhammad Rayhan/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Astronomy is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of the sciences, and as such has connection to various cultures over millennia.
Credit: Till Credner/IAU OAE License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Created for the OAE Aurorae often display waving curtain-like patterns where arcs or bands form moving curls, folds, or even spirals.
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Created for the OAE Aurorae are the result of ionisation and excitation processes in Earth's upper atmosphere, caused by charged particles from the solar wind or from coronal mass ejections.
Credit: Marco Migliardi on behalf of Associazione Astronomica Cortina/IAU OAE. License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
Equal Day 2026 radio telescope
A Geocentric chart from 1568
Credit: Bartolomeu Velho License: Public Domain icons
Spiral Galaxy UGC 2885
Credit: NASA, ESA, Benne Holwerda (University of Louisville) License: Public Domain icons
Conjunction of Mercury and Venus above the Moon
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
The Horsehead Nebula
Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA) License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) icons
$Proxima Centauri appears as a bright point with diffraction spikes. Several fainter stars are in the background.$

Proxima Centauri, Our Closest Stellar Neighbor
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Pan-STARRS Survey: Mosaic of the Northern Sky
Credit: Richard White (STScI), Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium License: Public Domain icons
The LDN 483 Dark Nebula
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ISS' view of nightly Japan
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The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education
are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.