Jane Charlton – The Conversation

A screenshot from the ‘University of Mars’ video game shows a galaxy flight. Jane Charlton

April 1, 2026

Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game

With college students less likely to read through a full textbook than they once were, video games can help keep them engaged.

Hubble fireworks.

April 23, 2015

Tanya Hill, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Alan Duffy, Swinburne University of Technology; Chris Tinney, UNSW ; Fred Watson, Australian Astronomical Observatory; Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney; Howard E Bond, Penn State; James Bullock, University of California, Irvine; Jane Charlton, Penn State; John Clarke, Boston University; Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University; Lucas Macri, Texas A&M University; Michael Drinkwater, The University of Queensland; Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University; Mike Eracleous, Penn State; Philip Kaaret, University of Iowa; Rachel Webster, The University of Melbourne; Roberto Soria, Curtin University, and William Kurth, University of Iowa

Astronomers from around the world identify their favourite images sent back to Earth by the Hubble Space Telescope.