High-Level Project Summary
A clear and accurate learning guide will be developed to help people understand how stars work and how they vary over time with the help of NASA data. This guide is a way to introduce the population to the basic knowledge of stars and their variability over time, regardless of the age of the people accessing it, thus helping to make the history of stars from their formation to their eventual death very understandable.Facilitating to the population the knowledge of the stars and their types. This proseeks to generate curiosity in people about the stars, so that they are able to learn about them and thechanges that occur in the course of their lives.
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Detailed Project Description
What does it do exactly?
Inform people, regardless of their age, about the stars and their variations over time.
How does it work?
We will elaborate a simple and entertaining guide that will explain the changes that a star undergoes throughout its life.
What are the benefits?
It will facilitate the understanding of stars and their variability over time.
What do you hope to achieve?
We hope to change the way people see stars, showing them how wonderful and amazing they can be.
Space Agency Data
We include stellar variability data provided by NASA, which is very important since our book focuses on facilitating the understanding of stars and why they change their brightness periodically.
Hackathon Journey
How would you describe your experience with Space Apps?
As a before and after in the way we see science and its multiple uses in our lives.
What did you learn?
In the course of the research we learned a lot about stellar variability and also about astronomy in general.
What inspired your team to choose this challenge?
We were inspired by the excitement of being able to help other people understand variant stars through an educational tool.
What was your approach to developing this project?
We focused on making the content presented in the book as easy to understand as possible, as this is very important to ensure the success of our work.
How did your team resolve setbacks and challenges?
We solved the setbacks by keeping calm and helping each other. Challenges were solved by dividing the work in an organized and equal manner and having excellent communication.
Is there anyone you would like to thank and why?
To all the teachers and professionals who helped us in the realization of the project, especially to the teacher Adriana Vega who motivated us to enter the Space Apps Challenge and was guiding us from the beginning of the challenge.
References
1. https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/cepheids.html
2. https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/timing1.html
3. https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/twinkle-twinkle-little-star/details
4. https://www.nationalgeographic.es/espacio/que-sabes-de-las-estrellas
Tags
#art,#didactic,#star,#book