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Lenny and Lexie Get Ready for a Solar Eclipse
Hands-on Activities
Help Lenny and Lexie get ready for a solar eclipse using your unplugged coding skills.
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Three Ways to Make a Solar Eclipse Viewer
Hands-on Activities
Safely view a solar eclipse by making and using a pinhole solar eclipse viewer.
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Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (she/her)
Career Profiles
Astrophysicist and Associate professor
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How could you build a refracting telescope using water as the lenses?
Hands-on Activities
Build your own refracting telescope using glasses of water as the lenses.
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Katie Mack (she/her)
Career Profiles
Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication
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The Earth Moon System
Backgrounders
Answers to some common questions about Earth’s Moon.
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Seeing the Universe with the James Webb Telescope
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Learn about the James Webb telescope and Canada’s role in the mission.
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Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.
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Let's Talk Lunar Resources
Backgrounders
Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!
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Telescopes and Astronomy
Backgrounders
Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
![Hubble Space Telescope as seen during a servicing mission in 2009](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-02/hubble_space_telescope.jpg?itok=eNoDBFx5)
Airborne & Space Telescopes
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Learn about telescopes that do their work high in Earth’s atmosphere and in space.
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Optical Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about the history of telescopes and the function of refracting and reflecting optical telescopes.
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Radio Astronomy
Backgrounders
Learn about radio astronomy, a type of astronomy that studies objects in space using radio waves and radio telescopes.
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The Optics of Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about telescopes, how they work & why they're important to astronomers.