Astronomy and Space

Zoe loves looking up at the sky at night with her telescope. Zoe joins the stars together, just like dot to dot, to make her own patterns in the sky. Some of the patterns that Astronomers look at are called Constellations. When Zoe visits Sydney Observatory she gets to look through bigger telescopes at things like the moon and planets. Once they were able to see the International Space Station fly overhead. In the Space exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum you can walk through the space station into a Zero Gravity Space Lab. Zoe’s favourite thing in the Space exhibition is rock that came all the way.

On this page you will find some of Zoe’s favourite astronomy and space activities.

You can even download your very own copy of the Twinkle Twinkle song!

To help you learn about the stars in the southern sky this month you can use a Sydney Observatory Sky Map.