Travel through space and explore the universe from the comfort of your home

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A pandemic is no reason to give up on space exploration. There are many inexpensive and even free educational resources dedicated to astronomy on the Internet.

Visit NASA.gov
NASA's website is a great place to learn about the history of space exploration. It features historical articles and multimedia materials, NASA TV video broadcasts , and links to social media (including Giphy, SoundCloud, and Twitch).



In the downloads section, you can download mobile applications or free e-books , such as "NASA's Handbook of Systems Engineering ." There is also a library of audios that can be used as ringtones or computer notifications. For example, the famous "Houston, we have a problem ," which was played during the Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

NASA has many other sites dedicated to the Jet Propulsion south africa number data Laboratory , Mars projects , solar system exploration , and the old Voyager interstellar probes of the 1970s.

Study the calendar
Want to know when a meteor shower or the next supermoon will occur ? Subscribe to an astronomical calendar. For example, TimeandDate.com has a celestial calendar that lists eclipses, equinoxes, solstices, and other cosmic events.

To have major astronomical events automatically appear on your calendar, find a resource with a subscription option, such as the Moon Phase & Astronomy Calendar .

Look at the stars.
on your own, use your smartphone; just search for “astronomy” apps. Many of them use augmented reality, 3D models, and location-based information to give you a personalized tour of the sky.

The $3 Star Walk 2 app for Android and iOS is beautifully designed and includes a news section that alerts you to upcoming astronomical events. The $2 Star Rover for Android and iOS and the free SkyView Lite for Android and iOS also give you access to a pocket planetarium.