Video - Why the Full Moon is Better in Winter

Most of the time when I take my dogs out at night I have to put on a headlamp (they have their own to wear too) so that I can see them in th...

NASA Explains the Harvest Moon

In the northern hemisphere the Harvest Moon will appear later this week. This is the full moon that is closest to the northern autumnal equi...

How Solar Eclipses Happen - An Infographic

Solar Eclipses - How They Happen is a nice infographic from Turu . The infographic provides short explanations of three types of solar ecli...

100,000 Stars Puts the Universe in Perspective

Last week I shared a six minute video tour of the known universe . That video does a great job of helping viewers understand the scale of th...

A Six Minute Tour of the Known Universe

Earlier this year I shared a couple of interactive infographics that allow students to see the size of objects in the universe in comparison...

Teaching Astronomy with Pictures and 16 Other Resources

Through a recent post on Open Culture I rediscovered NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day gallery. The image that Open Culture highligh...

Video - Is Pluto a Planet?

Thanks to Brain Pickings this morning I learned that C.G.P. Grey is back with another good visual explanation. This time he tackles Pluto ...

Turn Your Students into Solar Storm Watchers

Solar Storm Watch is a website on which anyone can become a solar storm watcher. The site uses imagery from STEREO Spacecraft to present u...

Interactive Visualization of the Scale of the Universe

I just received an email from a reader, Mary Murphy, who shared with me a fantastic interactive visualization of the scale of the universe. ...

Oh The Things You Will See - Five Planets With the Naked Eye

I'm not much of a star-gazer, but I can pick out a few constellations and planets when I look up at night (living in a town devoid of st...

A Planetarium for Your Browser

Yesterday, on my Android 4 Schools blog I featured the Google Sky app that allows you to determine which stars, planets, and constellation...

Identify the Stars and Planets Using Your iPhone

Through my friend Angela Maiers I recently learned about a neat augmented reality iPhone app that helps users identify the stars and planet...

Video - Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Depending on where you live last night or early this morning you could have observed a lunar eclipse. If you stayed in bed instead of watchi...

Hey What's That? - It's a Lunar Eclipse!

In a couple of days (December 21) there will be a lunar eclipse . Chances are you won't be with your students during the eclipse, but yo...

Amazing Space - Space Explorations and Lessons

Amazing Space is a great website for teachers and students of astronomy. Amazing Space has a great collection of virtual tours and interac...

Google Earth Adds More Mars Imagery

Google recently announced the addition of some new imagery for viewing Mars in Google Earth . The new imagery offers more detail for the Ma...