Cool+Websites+of+the+Week

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This website contains fun facts about the planets, as well as games, stories and other fun stuff for kids! [|http://kids.f9.net.uk/flash/planets/about_planets.htm] [|l]

NASA has put together a wonderful website for kids documenting the Mars Exploration Mission. The site contains information on Mars, images and videos, as well as games, including one that allows kids to enroll as a virtual Martian! []

This website contains games, coloring pages and jokes about astronomy. []

This website takes images and audio from space missions and puts it into a 12 minute video. With fun facts and an interface that makes you feel like you are in the spaceship, it is exciting and educational! [| http://www.spacewander.com/USA/english.html]

This website is brought to you by the European Space Agency; it contains information on the story of the universe, astronomy news, and labs that can be completed.  [| http://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEM3L6WJD1E_OurUniverse_0.html]

A great website with lots of fun activities for kids including a sky tool to help identity what stars are visible in the sky.  []

This website has great information on all of the plants, including dwarf planets and when you can expect to see the next meteor shower. It also contains information on the Hubble telescope! []

This educational website contains information on more specific astrology topics like famous astronomers and the big bang theory.  []

<span style="color: #006fff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This website contains links to astronomy projects that kids can complete like building a telescope or a paper comet model! <span style="color: #006fff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]

<span style="color: #006fff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Using a Google application, you can find the positions of the planets and constellations on the sky and even watching the birth of distant galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[]