With this hands-on activity, students build a model of the Milky Way, learning what our Galaxy looks like, where we stand in it, about the objects it hosts and the distances between them. They will also learn about galaxies and how the Universe formed and how it evolves.

Activity Information

Big Ideas

There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe

There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe

Source: AstroEdu – International Astronomical Union