During this activity you will learn how the distances to nearby stars can be measured using the parallax effect, and put this method into practise to determine the distance to nearby stars.
Have you ever wondered what happens to stars as they get older? Explore the evolution of stars with different masses.
Have you ever wondered what happens to the different stars in the night sky as they get older? This activity lets you explore the life-cycle of stars.
If you're new to observing using LCO, this is a good place to start.
Use measurements from an exploding star to investigate cosmic distances
Investigate how fast an asteroid is rotating.
During this activity students will use real supernova spectra to create a famous Hubble Diagram and calculate the age of the Universe.
In this activity you will measure how fast the Sun moves to caclulate how big the Sun appears in the sky. All you need are some household items and about 20 minutes on a sunny day.
In this project you will calculate the age of a supernova remnant using Las Cumbres Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope observations.
There are many thousands of astronomical data files in the LCO archive. This guide will walk you through the steps to finding the images you want.
This guide will show you how to create beautiful colour images using free online software.
This article will tell you how to use Adobe Photoshop to make high quality color images with your astronomical data.
This guide will show you how to create beautiful colour images using free software that can be downloaded from the Internet.
Make measurements of the effect the Earth's atmosphere has on images of objects in space.