Space Top 10s

Ten lists. Where a list can be ranked by a rule, the rule is in our code and said on the page; where one of ours is on a list, it says so.

10 things to see in the night sky with no telescopeTen things a child can find in the night sky with bare eyes, from the Moon and four planets to the Big Dipper and a meteor shower.
10 meteor showers, best to worst for kidsThe year's meteor showers ranked for families: each shower's best rate weighed against the Moon on its next peak night, from our sky table.
10 free sky tools for familiesTen free tools for looking at the night sky with kids, including our own Sky Tonight, NASA's monthly sky video and the meteor shower calendar.
10 space facts kids get wrongTen things most people believe about space that aren't so, with the right answer and NASA's number where there is one.
10 Moon facts for kidsTen facts about the Moon for kids, with NASA's numbers and dates from our Moon calendar: size, distance, shapes, and the closest full Moon.
10 worlds to read about at three levelsTen of Peabody's world pages, each written at three reading levels with NASA's numbers and a read-aloud button. All ten are ours.
10 space print sheets for a rainy nightTen free space print sheets for kids: tonight's sky sheet, a Moon journal, the shower night kit, the planets in order and more, most of them ours.
10 space games on Peabody and elsewhereTen free space games and quizzes for kids, on Peabody and on NASA Space Place; ours are marked.
10 nights to put on the fridge this winterTen dated nights for families this winter, from our sky table: meteor shower peaks, full and new Moons, planets together and the longest night.
10 questions to ask a child under the starsTen open questions to ask a child under the night sky, each with a page that has the answer for when they ask it back.

How the lists are made

Two of the lists are worked out by a rule in our code: the meteor showers are ranked by each shower's rate against the Moon on its next peak night, and the nights for the fridge are the next ten dated nights from our sky table, so both change as the dates pass. The others are written by hand from NASA's numbers and our own pages. Where one of ours is on a list it is marked Ours, and every outside link goes to the source itself.