Choose a Mission

Light Detectives is about learning by doing.

Explore games, quizzes and challenges that uncover the mysteries of light, wildlife and the night sky.

Some missions will test your knowledge. Others will send you searching for clues, investigating the world around you or becoming a citizen scientist.

No levels. No set order. Just follow your curiosity!

Choose a mission that interests you and start investigating.

Light has some strange, funny and very scientific words! Can you guess words like glare, glow, twilight, skyglow, nocturnal, and prism?

Take the quiz and discover how artificial light can affect animals that depend on darkness to feed, travel, hide from predators and find their way.

Take a look at the activity and see if you can become a night-time navigator. Can you find the Southern Cross and work out which way is south?

Explore the night sky where you live and discover how your observations can help scientists measure light pollution around the world.

Discover how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples share night sky knowledge. Can you find the Emu hidden in the Milky Way?