KU CubeWorlds
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| Name and Short Description | Cut-and-paste CubeWorld | Origami-balloon CubeWorld |
| Mars: The Red Planet, perhaps most nearly Earth-like of all the planets in the Solar System. | 
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| Phobos: The larger of two moons orbiting Mars, but small enough to walk around in just a few days. | 
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| Venus: The surface of Earth's nearest neighbor, revealed by peering through its thick clouds. | 
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| Name and Short Description | Cut-and-paste CubeWorld | Origami-balloon CubeWorld |
| Enceladus: An infrared view of this icy moon of Saturn, revealing heat sources near the southern pole. | 
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| Neptune: The furthest, coldest planet in the Solar system has only been visited by a single spacecraft. | 
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| HD 189733b: The first map of a planet beyond our Solar System, showing its temperature as measured in infrared light with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. | 
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| Name and Short Description | Cut-and-paste CubeWorld | Origami-balloon CubeWorld |
| Cosmic Microwave Background: The residual temperature fluctuations left over from the Big Bang, as measured by NASA's WMAP probe. | 
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| Moon: Our own Moon, as it would be seen by our eyes in visible light. | 
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| Earth: Our planet Earth, blank except for national boundaries. Perfect for coloring before folding! | 
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| Name and Short Description | Cut-and-paste CubeWorld | Origami-balloon CubeWorld |
| Earth: Our planet Earth, shown as it would be seen by our eyes without clouds. | 
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| Jupiter: A "gas giant" planet, and the biggest planet in our Solar System. Can you find the Great Red Spot? | 
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| Luhman 16B: The nearest Brown Dwarf (bigger than planets, not quite a star) to our own Solar System. | 
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| Name and Short Description | Cut-and-paste CubeWorld | Origami-balloon CubeWorld |
Assistance Welcome
The CubeWorlds team is particularly interested in translation assistance in order to make our Cubes as widely available as possible. If you are fluent in a language and are willing to help translate the text in our downloads, please contact.
Acknowledgements
- CubeWorlds is also the result of a team effort, including contributions by PI Ian Crossfield, Connor Sutton (B.S. 2020), David Coria (PhD est. 2024), Kate Wienke (B.S. est. 2024), and Dr.\ Jennifer Delgado.
CubeWorlds is made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation, NSF grant AST-2108686. 