Science through Shadows
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Eclipses, Occultations and Transits
All three of these astronomical alignments provide astronomers with opportunities to study our solar system and galaxy. And, all three involve shadows!
Our NASA Science Activation project titled Science Through Shadows provides free fulldome and flat screen short films in English and Spanish on all three of these shadow phenomena: eclipses, occultations, and transits.听
Join us at Science through Shadows to learn much, much more about the opportunities, challenges, and successes of eclipses, occultations, and transits!听
Science through Shadows download request
Interested in downloading our 2D rectilinear format videos for your library, classroom or museum?听
Fill out our Fiske Science Through Shadows Video download form to receive details for downloading these flat screen videos for viewing offline.
For planetariums, full dome masters in 1K, 2K, and 4K can be downloaded for your full dome facility. Visit our Fiske Productions page for more information.
The free, immersive, full dome short films to be provided through Science through Shadows are ideal for inclusion in live programming around solar and lunar eclipses, stellar occultations, and planetary transits. The videos can also be used as 鈥渋nformational trailers鈥 at the beginning or end of any programming at your facility. Videos on the upcoming North American solar eclipses can be used to promote public awareness of these exciting events. They can also be used to educate audiences about safe eclipse viewing and to promote distribution of protective glasses and filters for safe Sun watching.
The free, 2D rectilinear short films to be provided through Science through Shadows (STS) are intended to engage library patrons in public awareness about solar and lunar eclipses, stellar occultations, and planetary transits. The videos can be shown with closed-captioning on library kiosks and public service announcement screens. Additionally, video and other resources from STS could be used to support public programming on the upcoming North American solar eclipses. The videos can also be used in conjunction with programming involving eclipse viewing glasses and other resources to be provided through run by the . 2D rectilinear masters can be viewed using or by downloading video master files for viewing offline.
If your museum has a high definition video wall, you can download the 2D rectilinear versions of our Science through Shadows (STS) for viewing. You can also use our videos on smaller screen kiosks. The materials provided by STS can also be used to host public programming on eclipses, occultations, and/or transits. If your museum has a planetarium, the full dome version of the film is perfect for engaging audiences in immersive experiences. They can also be used to educate audiences about safe eclipse viewing and to promote distribution of protective glasses and filters for safe Sun watching.听
For classroom teachers, you can use Science through Shadows videos across your campus to promote the upcoming North American eclipses and safe solar viewing. The videos can be used across disciplines and within contained classrooms. This includes all K-12 settings (not just science classrooms). The videos can be used in science classrooms to promote science inquiry around eclipses, occultations, and transits, three astronomical phenomena involving alignments and shadows.
Science Through Shadows (STS) is a .
STS seeks to increase astronomy literacy and inform people about NASA鈥檚 diverse range of projects (not just Mars and Telescopes in Space!), and NASA鈥檚 workforce diversity, through dissemination of short films about solar eclipses, occultations, transits, and small bodies of the Solar System. Films are produced in both full dome (planetarium) and flat screen formats and are free for download and use. STS will also involve high school students in the production of some of these films. STS has also provided inflatable planetariums to national partners in Oakland, Detroit, Houston, and Hancock County, Mississippi.
STS is funded by NASA grant #80NSSC22M0124
Science through Shadows Leadership Team
Dr. Doug Duncan was part of the research group that discovered sunspot cycles on other stars, on the staff of the Hubble Space Telescope, and Director of Fiske Planetarium from 2002-2018. He has witnessed and taken people to 12 total solar eclipses, starting on March 7, 1970. He loves to communicate astronomy and has done commentary for 11 years on National Public Radio.
Dr. John Keller is the Director of Fiske Planetarium and a Teaching Professor of Distinction within the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department at the 麻豆免费版下载. Keller is a planetary scientist with research interests in occultations, astronomy education, and teacher preparation. He is PI and Co-PI for multiple NASA and NSF funded projects through which Fiske produces immersive full dome films that are shared with the planetarium community worldwide free of charge.听
Meet the rest of the听Fiske Team听working on the Science through Shadows project in our About Us page.