 "On the left is the interstellar medium and on the right is the solar system surrounded by the heliosphere. A bow shock is shown outside the heliosphere at the boundary where the two meet.")
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Sun-Earth Day 2009 Web Site
Check out the Space Weather Media Viewer, the Technology Through Time Series and a wealth of activities, information, and materials on the Sun-Earth Day 2009 web site.
Solar Week Web Site
Once every fall and spring since 2000, Solar Week provides a week-long series of web-based educational classroom activities and games geared for upper-elementary, middle and high school students, with a focus on the Sun-Earth connection.
Educator Resources
This collection of lesson plans and 'easy to do' activities are just the hook you need to bring the science of Space Weather to your students. Here you can do everything from building an edible model of the sun to learning how to make a real space weather broadcast!To enhance your lessons visit the Multimedia Center where we have placed a variety of exciting materials including interactive children's books, multimedia viewers, games and our new interactive timeline called, "Sun Watchers Through Time".
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 "green aurora over houses")
 "close-up of part of the sun with magnetic field lines shown representing the Sun' magnetic field")
 "Hinode imagery of part of the sun showing a large black sunspot and its filamentary penumbrae in the upper left, and solar granulation in the rest of the image.")
 "An actor wearing a grey beard to look like Galileo with a list of a few of Galileo's discoveries")
 "bending and twisting loops above an active region of the sun observed by STEREO")
 "TRACE image showing emission from gas at 1 million degrees, of Active Region 9077 on 19 July 2000, at 23:30UT.")
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