Astronomy is an accessible and visual science, making it ideal for educational purposes. Hubble and the ESO telescopes have not just provided stunning new images, they are also invaluable tools for astronomers. The telescopes have excellent spatial/angular resolution (image sharpness) and allow astronomers to peer further out into the Universe than ever before and answer longstanding
unsolved questions.
The website
The website presents a series of exercises in PDF format that has been produced by ESA and ESO.
The object of the series is to present various
small projects that will pass on some of the excitement
and satisfaction in scientific discovery
to the students. Using elementary geometrical
and physical considerations, the students will be
able to derive answers that are comparable with
the results of much more sophisticated analyses
described in the scientific literature.
