Each Workshop offers two credits from Penn State's Graduate School. They are held at the University Park campus in State College PA which lies at the center of Pennsylvania.
Stars form with disks of dust and gas which can condense into planets.
There will also be discussion about the possibility of life around other stars. The Galaxies and Cosmology for Science Teachers Workshop begins with understanding of our Milky Way Galaxy and proceeds outward to study other galaxies, galaxy clusters, and distant quasars. The origins and evolution of the Universe itself is described in the context of Big Bang cosmology. The latest results from the Hubble Space Telescope and other space-based observatories will be featured in both Workshops. Content is oriented towards the new National Science Education Standards in astronomy .