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This community-based website is where all of us as Astronomy from the Ground Up participants can connect and strengthen our astronomy skills. Astronomy from the Ground Up provides informal science educators at nature centers, science centers, and natural history museums with new ways to communicate the excitement of modern astronomy.

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  • Featured Activity - The Habitable Zone


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    NASA's Kepler Mission is finding small Earth-size planets around other Sun-like stars.

    It is looking for planets in the habitable zone of stars.

    But what is a "habitable zone"?

    Use this activity to find out!

  • Educator of the Month - Anna Cordes


    The Educator of the Month is Anna Cordes, an Interpretive Park Ranger at Kings Canyon National Park in CA. Anna participated in the Sky Rangers 2010 Yosemite Workshop and GLOBE at Night 2011.

    Click here to read more about Anna and the astronomy programming at Kings Canyon National Park.

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Astronomy from the Ground Up is based upon work supported by the Informal Education Division of the National Science Foundation under Grant no. ESI-0451933. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.