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.
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.
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (she/her)
Career Profiles
Astrophysicist and Associate professor
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.
Katie Mack (she/her)
Career Profiles
Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication
The Earth Moon System
Backgrounders
Answers to some common questions about Earth’s Moon.
Seeing the Universe with the James Webb Telescope
Backgrounders
Learn about the James Webb telescope and Canada’s role in the mission.
Let's Talk Space Exploration Resources
Backgrounders
Discover a set of resources to develop background knowledge on the topic of space exploration.
Let's Talk Lunar Resources
Backgrounders
Discover some background information on how we'll learn to live and work on the Moon - and beyond!
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.
Airborne & Space Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about telescopes that do their work high in Earth’s atmosphere and in space.
Optical Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about the history of telescopes and the function of refracting and reflecting optical telescopes.
Radio Astronomy
Backgrounders
Learn about radio astronomy, a type of astronomy that studies objects in space using radio waves and radio telescopes.
The Optics of Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about telescopes, how they work & why they're important to astronomers.