The EU Universe Awareness (EU-UNAWE) astronomy news service for children, Space Scoop, is delighted to welcome a new partner on board, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). NAOJ is one of the most advanced astronomical facilities in the world. The main telescope is the 8-metre Subaru telescope in Hawaii, that is being used to study the most distant and powerful objects in the universe: quasars and active galactic nuclei.
The idea behind Space Scoop is to show children the exciting new discoveries that are still being made today and how there is still much to learn about the Universe – research that they could contribute to in the future. The resource was launched in February 2011 in partnership with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Since then a number of organisation have joined the Space Scoop family: the European Space Agency (ESA), the NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory, Europlanet, the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), ASTRON and the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) have joined the Space Scoop family. The new partners have increased the number of Space Scoops that are published on the EU-UNAWE website each week and it has grown into the biggest and best resource for astronomy news for children, with releases now available in 19 different languages.
The new partnership with the NOAJ will be a great asset to Space Scoop, bringing us exciting new science stories and a new language: Japanese. Space Scoop is now being translated to a total of 22 languages! Mr. Shinichi Miyazaki and Mr. Kenichiro Takashiba, professional educators affiliated with the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory, will be providing the translations.
You can read the first NOAJ Space Scoop here.
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