Hello space enthusiast!

My name is Dr. Veronica Allen, and at the time of writing, I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Netherlands working in observational astrochemistry. I am also a keen science communicator.

I created this activity for the 2022 Nacht van de Nacht event at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute (University of Groningen) in the Netherlands.

The goal of this activity is to demonstrate how a familiar astronomical object, the Orion Nebula, looks very different when using different telescopes that are sensitive to different types of light.

I commissioned fellow astrochemist Olivia Harper Wilkins (http://theskyisnotthelimit.org/sciart) to create space art stickers based on real telescope images from Hubble, Herschel, ALMA, WISE, XMM, and VISTA.

Below is a description of the files I have included:
  "Example.png" shows what a completed worksheet looks like.
  "Printout.png" shows two optical images of the Orion Nebula. On the left is a zoomed-out view including the lower half of the Orion constellation, the larger star-forming region, and the horsehead nebula. On the right is the nebula on its own. The left has two circles for stickers and the right has three circles for stickers.
  "sticker_FIR.png" is based on several Herschel PACS 70 and 160-micron images in shades of grey. FIR is written in white at the bottom center.
  "sticker_MIR.png" is based on the 3.4, 4.6, and 22-micron RGB AllWISE image in shades of red. MIR is written in white at the top center.
  "sticker_NIR.png" is based on a VISTA image in shades of red, blue, and grey. NIR is written in white at the bottom center. (image ref: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1006a/)
  "sticker_submm.png" is based on ALMA observations of filaments of gas where stars are forming. The blue filaments are from an integrated intensity (moment 0) map of N2H+ (93.173 GHz) from the ALMA program 2015.1.00669.S. Submm is written in white at the top center.
  "sticker_xray.png" is based on XMM observations where orange is hot, diffuse gas and red are point sources of X-rays (very hot stars). Xray is written in white at the bottom center.


To prepare this activity, print each sticker on clear stickers and print the "Printout.png" at high resolution in landscape orientation. 
***IMPORTANT!!: make sure your sticker printer uses an invisible background and white ink on the stickers, otherwise, they will not be as clear as the example when overlaid on the paper.***
Each half of the printout has a yellow star corresponding to the same position. Each of the stickers also has the same yellow star to show the orientation of each sticker with respect to the optical images.

Sticker positions: 
*Left side of the printout: Mid-infrared (MIR) above, Far infrared (FIR) below
*Right side of the printout: Sub-millimeter (sub-mm) above, Near-infrared (NIR) left, X-ray right.

I have made handwritten info cards for each of the wavelength regimes and will upload digitized versions in the near future. I can send photos upon request, but they are laminated, so copying them is difficult.

Good luck with the lesson and feel free to contact me if you have any questions!