THE LAST TRANSMISSION / FIELD GUIDES
Follow one question.
Understand it more deeply.
Substantial explanations with original diagrams, direct answers and sources you can inspect. Each guide opens a carefully chosen path through the Evidence Files, documentaries, illustrated articles and 3D Atlas.
Download the printable exploration activities →FIELD GUIDE / BLACK HOLES
The boundary that keeps
the universe outside.
Learn what an event horizon means, follow the difference between two falling clocks, and compare tidal forces around stellar and supermassive black holes. Original diagrams and a mass comparison connect the science to the Atlas.
Open the Black Holes Field Guide
FIELD GUIDE / OCEANS BEYOND EARTH
Three frozen worlds.
Three evidence trails.
Compare Europa’s magnetic response, Enceladus’s sampled spray, and Pluto’s competing interior models. Follow the measurements into the hidden-ocean question, the search for habitable conditions, and the Atlas.
Open Oceans Beyond Earth
FIELD GUIDE / HOW STARS DIE
The light changes.
The story continues.
Follow single stars and interacting companions into white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. Compare the physics of the endings with the observations that let us reconstruct a stellar life.
Open How Stars Die
HOW TO USE A FIELD GUIDE
Read. Compare.
Then explore.
Begin with the explanation, use the chapter links to reach a specific question, and keep the numbered sources close. The related routes at the end carry the science into a research file, documentary, article or Atlas experience.
Continue into the Evidence Files ↗TAKE THE QUESTION OFFSCREEN / PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES
Print. Investigate. Discuss.
Original activities for classrooms, astronomy clubs, and curious readers. Each includes an annotated diagram, questions, sources, and an answer discussion.
Browse the printable exploration guides →4 pages · US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches · 57 KB
Read online and see the sources →4 pages · US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches · 56 KB
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