Public Event
Celebrate Halloween With NASA Online
When:
October 2023Where:
Online (see event details)Target Audience:
General PublicOverview:
Carve a pumpkin like a NASA engineer, share your space-themed costume and discover mysterious locations throughout the solar system and beyond! These online resources will get you spacing out with NASA this Halloween.
Pumpkins:
Want to make an out-of-this-world Halloween pumpkin? Take a cue from the engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It’s their job to design and build robots that can travel millions of miles to study other planets – and sometimes even land and drive around on the surface. So during Halloween, they can’t help but use their free time to bring some of that same creative thinking to designing stellar pumpkins inspired by space exploration. Explore the links below to see some of the pumpkins created by NASA engineers and do it yourself with our how-to guide.
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Create a Halloween Pumpkin Like a NASA Engineer
Get tips from NASA engineers on how to make an out-of-this-world Halloween pumpkin.
Subject Engineering
Type Project
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All AudiencesFlickr Album: NASA/JPL Pumpkins
See a collection of mechanical pumpkin marvels created by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
If mechanical pumpkins aren't your thing, these space-themed pumpkin stencils from NASA's Space Place will add some stellar flare to your Halloween celebration.
› En Español: Plantillas para calabazas
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Pumpkin Stencils - Earth
Make your very own Earth-themed pumpkins with these easy-to-use stencils from NASA's Climate Kids!
Subject Art
Type Project
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Pumpkin Stencils - Weather
Make your very own Weather-themed pumpkins with these easy-to-use stencils from NOAA's SciJinks!
Subject Art
Type Project
Sweet Science:
As you bite into your Halloween candy this year, see if you can describe the layers inside it like NASA scientists do when studying rocks on Earth and Mars.
Scary Space:
Explore some of the most mysterious and eerie places in the galaxy in these online galleries.
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Mysteries of the Solar System and Beyond
Become a solar system detective and see if you can solve the stellar mysteries in this slideshow before reading how the scientists did it.
Subject Science
Type Slideshow
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How Scary Is Space?
Check out these nine unearthly nightmares that could be happening right now in our own galaxy. Eek!
Subject Science
Type Gallery
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What are the different types of full moons?
Here's how to tell the difference between a supermoon, a blood moon, a blue moon, and a harvest moon.
Subject Science
Type Article
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What is dark matter?
Learn about the mysterious stuff that makes up 95% of the universe!
Subject Science
Type Article
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All AudiencesSinister Solar System
Our universe is full of mysterious sights, and spine-tingling sounds. Take a journey to the most frightful corners of the cosmos.
Subject Science
Type Gallery
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All AudiencesGalaxy of Horrors
We’ve rounded up some of the most frightening, deadly planets in the galaxy, places that make even the scariest haunted house on Earth pale in comparison.
Subject Science
Type Gallery
Costumes:
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RoverView 3-D Glasses
Make your own 3-D glasses that look like NASA's Curiosity Mars rover!
Subject Art
Type Project
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Planet Costumes
Dress up as your favorite planet for Halloween with these planet cutouts you can wear!
Subject Science
Type Project
› En Español: ¡Haz una máscara de planeta!
Explore More:
- Share pictures of your space-themed Halloween costumes, pumpkins, and activities with NASA on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using #NASAHalloween.
- Posters & Coloring Pages: Exoplanet Travel Bureau
- Article for Kids: What is an Exoplanet?
- Gallery: Galaxy of Horrors
- Website: NASA Exoplanet Exploration
- Interactive: Eyes on Exoplanets