Apolo-Tec

León | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

How is a star?

High-Level Project Summary

We develop an interactive visualizer where you can advance like an astronaut who go to the space and watch the different variations of stars. With this visualizer, people can access in a creative way to the database of NASA, for example the results of NASA Hubble Space Telescope, not necessarily reading the whole dataset, which could be tiring, otherwise progressing through the visualizer and accessing to little capsules of information with real images about the stars and their changes. It is important because with this visualizer people can learn in a funny way how is the growing of a star though the time and how other celestial bodies can affect their brightness.

Link to Final Project

https://view.genial.ly/6338854d2bdac0001130c8ca/interactive-content-quiz-basico

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFN6S4xznc/xOIlNE2hl9RTUEIC9WPxPg/watch?utm_content=DAFN6S4xznc&utm_campaign=share_your_design&utm_medium=link&utm_source=shareyourdesignpanel

Detailed Project Description

Your are an astronaut who travel to the space and do not know what is watching in the space, so you decided to click on the different of stars that you see and find information and real images about the celestial bodies. You can click for more information and directly you will be sent to official NASA reports where you can expand your knowledge of the subject even more. With this interactive visualizer we want that people feel interested in the star changes through the time and learn how is every star and why in a visual way, having fun and keeping in their memories for later transmit it to other people. The software used here is called genially, that is a a free online platform that allow you to create all kind of visual and interactive content, taking in consideration that visual content is 90% of the information we process, so people who play our game will more easily retain displayed information and also with interactivity to explore the discover more information autonomously. We also use canva for the design of our interface.

Space Agency Data

Firstly, we watch the resourses of the challenge and read about cepheid variables, cataclysmic variables and light curves and then we felt attracted about the different kind of stars, so que dediced of what stars want to write to put on our visualizer and then take the most important from each website of NASA and the exciting thing was to search the databases for the real images of the stars, we based ourselves especially on images of Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex - Deep Space Netwotk and NASA Hubble Space Telescope.

Hackathon Journey

Our experience Space Apps was exciting, interesting and challenging because all integrants of our team was new in this field, for that reason was was difficult to start with the project, we even felt panic but at the end we always try to do each one their part and distribute the work according to what each one does best. We choose this challenge because we love the stars, it is beautiful watch it in the sky and would like that more people know about this amazing celestial bodies.We we are grateful to NASA for offering us this great opportunity to participate in this amazing event and for allowing us to learn more about our universe

References

https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/stars1.html

https://www.mdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/2021/03/22/hubble-muestra-que-en-el-nacinmiento-de-las-estrellas-las-salidas-de-gas-circundante-pueden-no-detener-su-crecimiento/

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/supernova/sp/#:~:text=Las%20estrellas%20masivas%20queman%20enormes,que%20la%20estrella%20se%20derrumbe

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/sun-compare/sp/

https://www.mdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/2021/10/29/la-estrella-gigante-roja-cw-leonis-fotografiada-por-el-telescopio-espacial-hubble-de-la-nasa-ofrece-fantasmagoricas-imagenes-que-nos-recuerdan-a-la-celebracion-de-halloween/