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What is Light?
Our Universe is a vast and very interesting place and light plays a big part in us being able to understand more about it. To find out how join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore more.
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What is Gravity?
From Newton’s longstanding ideas to Einstein’s revolutionary theories, Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers explain how our understanding of gravity has changed from looking at how gravity affects us in our daily lives and how it governs what we observe in space.
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What did the early Universe look like?
A classroom activity that explores light/radiation throughout the history of the Universe and how we can use light to learn about the most distant galaxies.
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Unusual Orbits in the Andromeda Galaxy
A classroom activity in which students predict and then measure the rotational velocity of material in a nearby galaxy, using their knowledge of gravitation and Doppler shifts to deduce the presence of dark matter.
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The Story of Stars
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered about the stars? What makes them so special? Why are some even different colours? Join the Royal Observatory Greenwich astronomers as they explore the science behind the different types of stars in our Universe.
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The Spinning Earth
A classroom activity introducing the rotating Earth and the concept of longitude in which students carry out simple arithmetic to relates the 24 hour clock with the Earth’s rotation.
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The Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P
In this classroom activity, students use distance, speed and time to calculate how long a signal takes to reach us from Comet 67P.
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The Rosetta Mission
The Rosetta Mission has captured the interest and imagination of a generation and it is not over yet! Take a look at our video which explains what Rosetta and Philae have achieved as well as the impact the mission has had on our knowledge of our very own solar system.
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The Probability of Life in the Milky Way
In this activity students use the famous Drake equation to estimate the number of planets that may harbour intelligent life in the Milky Way.
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The history of the Universe
Students create their own timeline of the evolution of the Universe.