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Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

Are you looking for ways to inspire your students using the Hubble Space Telescope? Visit our showcase to see what other educators are using-formal lesson plans, blogs, games and presentations-the sky is the limit! Join us on Twitter

Scientists rejoice in stunning portraits of space from the revamped telescope

shared by Bill Sias, May, 2008

Need to explain to students the need to develop and explain their writing in a visual, interesting way? Try this.

A great example to your class of how a short simple sentence can be expanded. Make your own at http://www.telescopictext.org/write/ http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English

TelescopicText.org has just gone live. It is an extension of telescopictext.com, and is primarily a set of tools for creating expanding texts in a similar way. The tools can be found by clicking Write in the navigation at the top. Texts will house an ongoing collection of selected texts. Resources provides help for using this website, and also any news, updates, guides, support and a Q&A. If you need further information or help, contact info@telescopictext.com. You can Register in order to save and publish texts, or Sign in if you already have an account. If you like what you find here and you want to help support it you can Donate.