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2. 88 Officially Recognized Constellations - NASA

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   Learn about the 88 officially recognized constellations and their significance in astronomy on NASA's webpage.

3. StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers - NASA

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   This site is intended for students in grades K through 8. StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers ages 5-13 to learn about the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy, and the universe beyond.

4. What are constellations? - NASA

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   Constellations can be a useful way to help identify positions of stars in the sky. Constellations have imaginary boundaries formed by "connecting the dots" and all the stars within those boundaries are labeled with the name of that constellation.

5. Star Art - NASA

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   Explain that many star groups were named for the people, animals, and objects our ancestors imagined seeing when they looked at the stars. Encourage students to share any information they possess about constellations. Display a constellation chart or pictures of starry skies as you read (or have students read) the attached constellation myths.

6. StarChild: The Solar System - NASA

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   What is the solar system? It is our Sun and everything that travels around it. Our solar system is elliptical in shape.

7. How do planets and their moons get their names? - NASA

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   StarChild Question of the Month for August 2002 Question: How do planets and their moons get their names? Answer:

8. Who figured out the Earth is round? - NASA

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   Around 350 BC, the great Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere (based on observations he made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you travelled further and further away from the equator) and during the next hundred years or so, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes actually measured the size of the Earth!

9. What causes a "falling star"? - NASA

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   It is important to understand that the meteoroids (and therefore the meteors) do not really originate from the constellations or any of the stars in the constellations, however. They just seem to come from that part of the sky because of the way the Earth encounters the particles moving in the path of the comet's orbit.

10. StarChild: The Planets and Dwarf Planets - NASA

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    The Planets and Dwarf Planets. Listen to an audio version of this page. Sorry, your browser does not support the audio element, please consider updating.

11. Star Art - An Introduction to Myths of Different Cultures - NASA

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    Star Art - An Introduction to Myths of Different Cultures. Star watching has occupied humans from the earliest times.