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In response to the health concerns posed by the coronavirus COVID-19, the Green Bank Observatory will postpone several public programs and events and reduce the visitor programs on site.
Programs and events affected have been removed from our Events calendar and notifications have been added to specific program and event web pages.
For Teachers
We offer everything from pulsar searches to short courses in astronomy.
Learn More about our offerings for teachers
For Students
The Green Bank Observatory has special programs for almost everyone! Programs for students as young as third grade, all the way through graduate school.
Education News
- Volunteers Build Bird Boxes to Support Local Ecosystems & Citizen Science
- Green Bank Student Scientists Launch Massive Balloon for Airborne Experiments
- Celebrate the Supermoon Total Lunar Eclipse at Green Bank Observatory
- Understanding science & predicting the future with Alyssa Goodman, Drake Lecture Award Winner
- Are we alone? New grant supports citizen science searching for intelligent life with the GBT
Educational Resources
Check out a list of great educational resources at this page.
The WorldWide Telescope is an online tool for visualizing the cosmos. It’s not a physical telescope, it’s a suite of free and open source software and data sets that combine to create stunning scientific visualizations and stories.
Do you like playing with data to find interesting trends? Check out “Glue!” Glue is an open-source Python library to explore relationships within and between related datasets. From astronomy, to data science, to medicine — Glue is useful across disciplines!