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Global Sky Partners

The goal of the Global Sky Partners program is to inspire students, teachers and the public around the world to engage in scientific endeavors. Through this opportunity, LCO particularly aims to inspire audiences in under-represented communities and the developing world, who would not normally be able to take part in programs involving professional scientific equipment.

LCO annually provides over 1,000 hours of observing time on our telescope network to educational organizations. The Global Sky Partners are a diverse group of educators and scientists who run their own fully-supported education projects and investigations using our telescopes.

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Global Sky Partners is supported by the Simons Foundation and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

View our 2023-2024 report
Active Partners 25
Student Publications 147

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Current Global Sky Partners

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100 Global High School Teams

100 Global High School Teams intends to facilitate students and teachers to use the robotic telescope time (0.4m) on LCO for the target objects (galaxies, nebulae, globular & open star …

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Astrolab (Starlight in the University Lab)

Astrolab is a tutorial, based on telescopic observations, to learn how to do science and discover that science can be challenging, interesting and manageable. This tutorial has been developed primarily …

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Beyond The Stars

Beyond the Stars is a place-conscious astronomy education program in Canada that provides hands-on, inquiry-based learning opportunities for students in remote, Indigenous, and historically underserved communities. The program combines access …

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Bolivian Virtual Observatory

The Bolivian Virtual Observatory (BVO) project seeks the implementation of free workshops on the study of transient astronomical phenomena and astrophotography processing through a campaign of astronomical observations planned by …

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Building the Cluster Codex

The group behind the Cluster Codex been working to create teaching materials in the rich learning environment of star cluster analysis, which taps many foundational topics in astrophysics that are …

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Comet Chasers

This project uses space, particularly comets, to inspire children in their learning across the curriculum. It links schools across the world with professional and amateur astronomers, to enable them to …

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Comets/NEOs

Offering assistance to educators and students studying comets and near-Earth asteroids.

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ExoClock

Since summer 2025, the ExoClock project is managed by the Pulsar non-profit civil law company, founded by the ExoClock coordinators, Angelos Tsiaras, Anastasia Kokori and Georgia Pantelidou, based in Thessaloniki, …

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Falkiyati Tajassus - Astronomical Curiosity

"Falkiyati Tajassus" (urdu: Astronomical Curiosity) seeks to foster a sense of science identity through informal, astronomy-related blended learning interactions among females and marginalized communities in Pakistan. Secondary and higher secondary …

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Hunting Outbursting Young Stars (HOYS)

HOYS is a citizen science project working with amateur astronomers. They provide  observational data for our star and planet formation research. HOYS as an LCO Global Sky partner will engage …

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iSTEAM Moon Over Us

Moon Over Us project promotes the observations of the Moon by students on different continents. Students learn about the Moon, its distance from Earth, and how it changes it's shape. …

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MicroObservatory Exoplanet Exploration Partnership

Through a pilot partnership with LCO, MicroObservatory aims to enhance our users’ learning experience. Specifically, we will offer our audiences periodic opportunities to request “Target of Opportunity” exoplanet datasets from …

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MicroObservatory Exoplanet Exploration Partnership

MicroObservatory is partnering with LCO to offer our users a pathway of authentic observing opportunities of increasing depth and complexity. Our observing program participants in YouthAstroNet (middle-school age) and DIY …

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Our Solar Siblings

Our Solar Siblings does three things. It freely provides a fully provisioned, off the shelf, curriculum for secondary teachers teaching astronomy, it freely provides guidance and support for larger student …

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Pan-African Citizen Science e-Laboratory

This project aims to use telescope time for citizen science contributions, astrophotography, entry-level research, and observational activities. Its goal is to make telescopes more accessible across Africa and to elevate …

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PETeR: PETeR: Education Project with Robotic Telescopes

Proyecto Educativo con Telescopios Robóticos (PETeR) - Education Project with Robotic Telescopes - is an online laboratory that aims to engage Spanish students in science and …

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Project: Eyes In the Skies

We study and classify exoplanets and eclipsing binaries with a focus of teaching users how to conduct exoplanet science.

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Saptarishi India

Saptarishi India is an All-India astronomy-based STREAM Project. They aim to engage and train students, educators, and amateur astronomers globally but especially across India in the study of deep sky …

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Shristi Astronomy

Shristi Astronomy has been using LCO as an Educational Tool to help participants understand how observations are made, how to plan observations, exposure times, filters, and analyse data. We hope …

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Stanford Online High School Astronomy Research Club

Stanford Online High School (SOHS) is an accredited, independent school for intellectually passionate students in grades 7 - 12. The SOHS Astronomy Research Club involves students across the world in …

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STEM Through Astronomy

The Boyce Research Initiatives and Education Foundation (BRIEF) also known as Boyce-Astro provides research opportunities to students to enhance their educational experience and introduce them to the scientific and technical …

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"Study of Astrophysical Phenomena in Comets and Narrow Band Galaxies" - Expoastronomy

Our Research focuses on the study of astrophysical phenomena in comets and very little-studied narrow-band galaxies, which in repositories have little data and references. We also want to identify astrophysical …

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"Study of Astrophysical Phenomena in Variable Stars and Binary Systems in the Main Sequence" - Expoastronomy

Our Research focuses on the study of astrophysical phenomena associated with the variability of stars of the main sequence little studied and that in repositories have scarce data and references, …

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Where's the Flux?

KIC 8462852 is a star that citizen scientists identified to have unusual brightness variations. This otherwise seemingly normal F star underwent erratic and completely unpredictable dips in flux ranging from …

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Widely Applied Time Domain Astrophysics / Gee-Whiz Astrophysics

Gee-Whiz Astronomy Modeling (GWAM) collects small group of students, teachers, and scientists, for astronomy education projects supported by Global Hands-on Universe. Participants collaborate online synchronously for one hour a week …