12 Stellar Travel

Taoyuan | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

12 Stellar Travel - Explore the stellar created by yourself

High-Level Project Summary

Planets orbit stars. The relative positions of the stars to the planets are fixed. 12 Stellar travel is a game application with 4 separate challenges that educate 8-14 years old kids: stars above are constantly changing because of the refraction, solar flare, occlude, and life cycle. When looking up at the sky, stars are twinkling. Wanna know why? Start the game!

Link to Final Project

https://12-stellar-travel.azurewebsites.net/

Link to Project "Demo"

https://youtu.be/o_XPDPcXNsg

Detailed Project Description

Game Link

https://buildacc.github.io/12StellarTravel/

Website

https://12-stellar-travel.azurewebsites.net/

https://github.com/FreeAaron/NASA-Space-Apps-Challenge

Azure-cognitive-services-speech

https://github.com/FreeAaron/cognitive-services-speech-sdk

Unity

https://github.com/chulove522/StarPrincess

Game Github

https://github.com/buildacc/12StellarTravel

Defence Solar Flare

Although the stars we see from Earth are only twinkling space is changing rapidly, and stars also have cooling periods and active periods. As an astronaut, watch out for solar flares!

Find the Brightest Stellar

One of the reasons stars vary in brightness is that when we view Earth, the stars block each other, preventing us from seeing all of them entirely. Now move the stars on the screen with your finger and see how the occlusion affects the brightness of the stars.

Understand the Life Cycle of Stella

The star looks like a bright and shining dot from the earth, but there is an amazing growth story behind this twinkling dot. Let us tell you more about stars from a variety of masses to how the star will die.

Observe Photons

A refraction will make the stars appear twinkling, and with the rotation of the planet, the light from the stars seen from the earth is twinkling. Put on your spacesuit and your telescope and see how hot and cold air affects the twinkling of the stars.

Space Agency Data

https://api.nasa.gov/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/twinkle-twinkle-little-asteroid

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/timing1.html

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/gcvs.html

https://donnees-data.asc-csa.gc.ca/dataset/38804261-6p9g-5g8r-622yqwm106ks22

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4720

Hackathon Journey

All the topics were extremely interesting, and we discussed topics one by one. We, six people, who were not very familiar with each other chatted and chatted until late at night. This is the connection NASA gave us to start our two-week journey.

Our theme is to teach children the changes of stars through games, overturn some previous scientific misinformation, and use an interesting way to tell people who didn't know the science about the diversity of stars.

At the very beginning, only one small game will be designed to introduce stars that are obscured by other stars, and let everyone know that the stars twinkle is not because of the atmosphere. However, in the end, we chose to make four games instead of one to make it clear that the four directions in which the stars will twinkle and move.

During the process, we had the joy of brainstorming, and we also quarreled because we wanted to make the work well. In the last ten minutes of the hackathon, we finally made it happen. This is an end and a beginning.

Thanks, everyone in our team, everyone is doing their best on their own thing when they are off work and school. We design games, we create dialogue, and we gather information from NASA's official website. Ten minutes left, no matter what, handing out our project is already a milestone! Thank you, NASA for the chance, and thanks to all the teammates again. Thank you.