Buying Guides
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Best Star Projectors
Put the night sky on the bedroom ceiling. Projectors for kids and adults.
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Best Tabletop Telescopes
Ten compact scopes for planets, galaxies and kids that set up on any table.
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Best Telescopes Under $200
Where budget scopes start showing planets and bright galaxies well.
Free Resources
Space Printables
Free PDF quizzes and worksheets for kindergarten to adult, with answer keys.
3D Space Models
Spin real maps of the Moon and planets built from NASA data. Find craters, landing sites, the rings of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and the moons of Jupiter.
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Arizona has some of the darkest skies in the lower 48, and almost nobody builds a planetarium trip around that.…
All 88 constellations with a star chart drawn from real star positions, the meaning of each name, pronunciation, best month to see it and free printable PDFs.
Find every Great Red Spot transit in your local time, see which ones are observable from your location and where the spot is on Jupiter right now.
Calculate your telescope’s resolving power, watch two stars split in a live diffraction simulator and see which double stars, lunar craters and planet details your telescope can show.
26 Christmas gift ideas for astronomy lovers, sorted by where they are in the hobby: no telescope yet, telescope owners, readers, space fans at home and stocking stuffers.
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