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Supernova Educator Unit
The Education and Public Outreach Group at Sonoma State University developed a set of activities and background materials for the Supernova Educator Unit. This was jointly developed for Fermi and XMM-Newton.
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Download the Educator Guide and supporting materials
- Supernova Educator Guide (PDF)
- Supernova matching game cards (PDF) - to support Activity 1 in the booklet; printable on standard business card paper
- Crab nebula files - to support Activity 2:
- Crab Nebula as seen in 1956 (JPG)
- Crab Nebula as seen in 1999 (JPG)
- Crab Nebula expansion animation (GIF)
- Crawl of the Crab activity MS Excel file: Student version, Teacher version (answer key)


