Today, five students from each Year 5 class had the chance to have their space questions answered by Dr. Lisa Germany in a Skype conference. Lisa is an astronomer from Swinburne University and she brought the Astro Tour to our school last voip-conference-9.JPGyear. In the Skype conference, we spoke into a microphone headset at our end, and we could hear Lisa through our computer speakers. We recorded the conference so that our classmates could also listen to Lisa’s answers. Lisa was also kind enough to send us some extra information about the questions we asked.

You can listen to all of our podcasts from our Skype interview at our Podcast page. But here are some sample questions, asked by students of 5KA…

  • Are there any other solar systems apart from ours? - Jayde
  • What does Kelvin mean? - Jas
  • If Jupiter were 50 times bigger, would it become a star itself? - Isaak

Also, check out our podcasts from our voice conferences with astronomers in 2006 for more Space Q & A!