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A team of astronomers at the University of California, California, has developed an effective curriculum that draws students' attention to astronomy, despite its complexity and effort, by focusing on astronomy.

The results of this unique experiment were published in the International Journal of Steam on STEM curricula around the world. This term is an abbreviation of educational policies related to the study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

In this innovative curriculum, UCLA's research team brought together more than 120 students from non-specialized fields of science, such as economics, philosophy, and social sciences, and included them in an astronomy course that included an introduction to astrophysics, during which the course focused mainly on the basics of astrophotography.

These include how to use and equip telescopes for imaging, the basics of using cameras, how to adjust them to capture the best possible astronomical images, and how to use some software to process and output astronomical images.

According to the study, the use of photography during the promotion of this educational course was an excellent mechanism for attracting students, and through the course students carry the difficulty of some scientific materials to reach a stage where they can take a beautiful picture of the night sky and share with friends.

The students' reactions came after this course - in a referendum developed by the administrators - to say that many of them wanted to continue studying astronomical photography in advanced, or as a future hobby in addition to their diverse specialties.

Science for all people
Although astronomical imaging itself is mainly about imaging techniques, but in order to depict the night sky and its objects you must learn a lot about them, such as their coordinates and their distributions in the sky, the evolution of stars and their composition, and the nature of celestial bodies such as planets, nebulae, galaxies and the differences between them, which drives you a little To immerse yourself in astronomy, Murat achieves course designers.

Attempts that drive students to love science through practice are often successful, even if they are not their specialty.

In the Arab world, for example, over the past decade we have seen a clear rise in interest in astronomy, the reason being the proliferation of amateur astronomy clubs and astronomy tourism activities, which start from simple public questions about astronomical phenomena or the star standing next to the moon.

This raises the public's attention and raises the question, and children in particular find unprecedented pleasure in astronomical activities such as moon reflection in a telescope, which may prompt them to love science in the future or at least have a degree of familiarity with it.