Space Science & Simulation connects astronomy with measurement and computation. Students move from observing the sky and reading scientific data to modelling orbits, comparing scales and evaluating mission constraints.
Topics
- Solar System structure and comparative planetology.
- Stars, stellar evolution and spectra.
- Galaxies and large-scale structure.
- Exoplanet detection methods.
- Orbits, transfers and mission geometry.
- Spacecraft instruments and scientific data.
- Current missions and discoveries, always with a review date and authoritative source.
FermiLabs course review brief
Learning objective:Build an astronomy foundation through observation, models and scale reasoning.
Content update:Add current observation resources, datasets, uncertainty notes and quiz feedback.
Suggested activity:Use an observation or orbit dataset to test one astronomical prediction.
Evidence to produce:Annotated observation log, calculation and conclusion.
Review status:Draft editorial integration; verify source curriculum ownership before public promotion.
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 96 Lessons
- 60 Days
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- 🌌 IntroductionLearning focus: 🟢👉 SKS Online Course guide, tips, and emojis meaning list; 🌌 Astronomy Course 🎨 STEAM 🔬 STEM Education series. Lessons are preserved in source order (22 mapped).22
- 1.1🟢👉 FermiLabs Online Course guide, tips, and emojis meaning list
- 1.2🌌 📮 Astronomy Course 🎨 STEAM 🔬 STEM Education series
- 1.3🌌 What is Astronomy?
- 1.4🆕🌌🔑💡🎨🎓 Key terms: Observatory, Astrology, Astronomer, Astrophysics, Amateur astronomy
- 1.5🌌🗽 Big names in Astronomy and Cosmology
- 1.6🆕🌌🎓❓ NASA Educational Program and Britannica Astronomy and Space quiz
- 1.7🆕🌌💡 📮 Introduction to Astronomy
- 1.8🆕🌌👉💡 📮 Naked Eye observations in Astronomy
- 1.9🆕🌌💡🎨🎓 📮 Where Are the Stars? the problem of Light Pollution and the Bortle scale
- 1.10🆕🌌💡 📮 Cycles in the Sky: The Earth’s Rotation; The Earth’s Orbit; The Zodiac and the Ecliptic
- 1.11🆕🌌🛸💡 📮 Moon Phases caused by the changing position of the Moon
- 1.12🌌💡🥼 📮 Eclipses and Syzygy, the alignment of three celestial objects
- 1.13🆕🌌🚨🥼💡🎨🎓 📮 Making a pinhole viewer for observing solar eclipse
- 1.14🌌💡 📮 Solstice and Equinox
- 1.15🆕🌌💡 📮 The significance of the Hubble Space Telescope and images comparison with the James Webb Telescope
- 1.16🌌🍎🔭💡 📮 Telescopes on Earth and Space Telescopes Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- 1.17🌌🍎🛸💡 📮 Gravity a fundamental force of nature
- 1.18🆕🌌🛸💡 📮 Tides and Tidal phenomena
- 1.19🆕🌌💡 📮 Light, its properties, and how we use it to study the universe
- 1.20📮 Astronomical Distance: Units, Light Time and Uncertainty
- 1.21🟢🌌🛸 📮 The Scale of the Universe
- 1.22👾💡👉 Join our Open Discord Server to share your progress, engage with other and peer review your activities
- 🌌 The UniverseLearning focus: 🆕🌌🎧💡🎨 Introduction to the Universe, Stars and Constellations for kids; 🌌🎧💡 The Big Bang, Cosmology. Lessons are preserved in source order (25 mapped).25
- 2.1🆕🌌💡🎨 📮 Introduction to the Universe, Stars and Constellations for kids
- 2.2🌌💡 📮 The Big Bang, Cosmology
- 2.3🌌💡 📮 A Brief History of the Universe
- 2.4🌌💡 📮 Origins of the Universe
- 2.5🆕🌌 📮 Before Time and Space and the Bing Bang
- 2.6🌌💡 📮 Stars
- 2.7🆕🌌 📮 Brown Dwarfs
- 2.8🌌💡 📮 Low Mass Stars
- 2.9🌌🛸💡 📮 Goldilocks planets for for supporting human life
- 2.10🌌🛸💡👉 📮 Exoplanets
- 2.11🌌💡 📮 White Dwarfs
- 2.12🌌💡 📮 High Mass Stars
- 2.13🌌💡 📮 Neutron Stars
- 2.14🌌🛸💡🥼 📮 Black Holes are mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe
- 2.15🌌💡 📮 Binary and Multiple Stars
- 2.16🌌💡 📮 Star Clusters
- 2.17🌌💡 📮 Nebulae
- 2.18🌌💡 📮 Galaxies
- 2.19🌌💡 📮 Our Galaxy the Milky Way
- 2.20🌌💡 📮 Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 2.21🌌👉 📮 Pulsar Planets
- 2.22🌌👉 📮 Hubble Space Telescope: Iconic Space Images Are Actually Black-and-White
- 2.23🌌💡👉 📮 Dark Universe
- 2.24🌌🔑👉 📮 Dark Matter
- 2.25🌌🔑👉 📮 Deep Time
- 🌌 The Solar SystemLearning focus: 🌌🎧💡👉🤣 Introduction to the Solar System; 🌌🛸💡 The real scale of the Solar System. Lessons are preserved in source order (21 mapped).21
- 3.1📮 The Solar System: Structure, Scale and Observation
- 3.2🌌🛸💡 📮 The real scale of the Solar System
- 3.3🟢🌌🛸💡🌍 📮 Explore The Earth, ISS and the Solar System with Google Maps
- 3.4🌌🛸💡👉 📮 Explore The Solar System Interactive Tour and How a 360° video works
- 3.5🌌💡👉 📮 The Sun
- 3.6🌌💡👉 📮 Mercury
- 3.7🌌🔑💡👉 📮 Venus
- 3.8🌌 📮 Life on Venus?
- 3.9🍎🌡️🌌 💡🥽 LAB: Greenhouse Effect – Greenhouse Gases Heat Thermodynamics Climate
- 3.10🌌💡👉 📮 Earth
- 3.11🌌🛸💡 📮 The Moon, Earth’s only natural satellite
- 3.12🌌🛸🔑💡👉 📮 Mars the Red Planet
- 3.13🟢🛸💡🔗🔑🔬🎨 📮 Colonizing Mars: build a Mars base and Terraforming it
- 3.14🌌🛸🔑💡👉 📮 Asteroids – the small, rocky objects that orbit the sun
- 3.15🌌💡👉 📮 Jupiter
- 3.16🌌👉 📮 Saturn
- 3.17🌌💡👉 📮 Uranus
- 3.18🌌 📮 Pluto
- 3.19🌌🛸💡 📮 Comets the icy bodies that orbit the Sun
- 3.20🌌👉 📮 The Oort Cloud
- 3.21🌌🛸💡👉 📮 Meteors, Meteroids, Meteorites and Meteor Showers
- 🛸 Space Exploration 💡 Ideas and ActivitiesLearning focus: 🆕🛸🎬💡 Why Space Exploration is so important and the 3 sci-fi movies; 🆕🟢🛸🎧💡 Astronaut training and activities for the unique challenges of spaceflight. Lessons are preserved in source order (24 mapped).24
- 4.1🆕🛸🎬💡 📮 Why Space Exploration is so important and the 3 sci-fi movies
- 4.2🆕🟢🛸💡 📮 Astronaut training and activities for the unique challenges of spaceflight
- 4.3🆕🛸❓ 📮 1 The Blue Comet Conundrum
- 4.4🆕🛸💡 📮 Laws of space
- 4.5🆕🛸 💡 📮 EVA Extravehicular Activities or space walks and How a Spacesuit work
- 4.6🆕🛸 💡 📮 Laboratory in Space ISS the International Space Station
- 4.7🆕🛸💡 📮 How to get pictures from the International Space Station via amateur radio
- 4.8🆕🛸 📮 Things you need to know about space
- 4.9🆕🛸📎 📮 The future of space exploration, missions to other planets and new technologies
- 4.10🆕🛸❓ 📮 19 The NASA Conundrum
- 4.11🆕🛸🔗🎮💡 📮 NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) and game activity
- 4.12🆕🛸🎓💡🔗 📮 NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids
- 4.13🆕🛸🔗💡🥘 📮 NASA Space Place – Explore Mars: A Mars Rover Game
- 4.14🆕🍎🌡️🛸💡 📮 Kinetic Theory, Phase Changes, Melting, Boiling, Condensation, and how NASA map planet without ocean
- 4.15📮 Space Mission Design: Objectives, Constraints and Trade-offs
- 4.16🆕🛸❓ 📮 10 The Alien Conundrum
- 4.17🆕🦾👽🛸🎓💡🥼🔬🎨🧰 📮 Robotics: Rover and Robot in Space with KSP Kerbal Space Program
- 4.18🆕🛸👽💡 📮 Make your ESA Bepicolombo Mission with KSP
- 4.19🆕🟢🎮⛏️🎓💡🛸🧪 📮 Using Minecraft to learn STEM/STEAM, Chemistry and Space Exploration
- 4.20🆕🛸💡 📮 We Are Going to the Moon to stay! The Artemis program and future Moon base
- 4.21🆕🛸💡 📮 How We Could Build a Moon Base TODAY
- 4.22🆕🛸❓ 📮 6 The Martian Conundrum
- 4.23🆕🛸 📮 SpaceX Starship Interplanetary Transport System
- 4.24🆕🛸🎓💡🥼🔬🎨🧰 📮 Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy
- Original quizzesOriginal source quizzes preserved for review.3
- FermiLabs Common Core — Evidence, Safety & Engineering Method
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