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Creating Access to World Class Science and Engineering for K-12 Teachers and Students |
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Through the Hands-On Universe program, students were introduced to image processing of real astronomical data.
Students are learning about parsec measurement by doing angle measurments of their fists
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Results of parsec measurements
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This student understands parsecs by measuring the angle between the yardsticks
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To understand parallax, students see how objects appear viewed from different angles
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Teacher Michael Lane uses parallax to calculate the distance between Jupiter and Io
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