by Ludwig Scheibe | Oct 14, 2025 | Media, Overview, Teaching Material
The McDonald Observatory, a department of the University of Texas at Austin, maintains a collection of work sheets, school projects and similar resources for middle- and high school teachers. The documents include the activity descriptions / tasks themselves, as well...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Sep 24, 2025 | Media, Overview, Teaching Material
The European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) branch in Germany hosts a range of resources related to both Earth science and space research intended for use in schools. It is a joint project by ESA and the DLR headquartered at the Ruhr University in Bochum,...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Jul 31, 2025 | Animations & simulations, Citizen science projects
The NASA Exoplanet Archive is an internet database of the exoplanets discovered to date. It contains a large number of parameters per planet, including discovery year, orbital period, mass & radius (if available), and stellar parameters. The list of planets can be...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Jul 31, 2025 | Animations & simulations, Citizen science projects
The Planetary Spectrum Generator PSG is a suite of atmosphere and radiative transfer models that allow you to synthesize and retrieve (exo-)planet atmospheric spectra. It can simulate several different observation facility and covers wavelengths from the UV to radio...
by Ludwig Scheibe | Jul 30, 2025 | Media, Overview, Teaching Material
The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS (short: NCCR PlanetS) initiative is an interdisciplinary research programme dedicated to exoplanet research. It was established in 2014 by the Swiss National Science Foundation in June 2014, to combine...
