ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Rockport: William Waller, right, physical sciences teacher at Rockport High School, watches as incoming senior John Scarpaci, lines up his small version of the Milky Way and associated Magellenic clouds proportionally to how they would appear in the cosmos on Tuesday. They are part of a NASA program Waller has been leading for the last three weeks. This week they are exploring the larger cosmos and on Tuesday, were learning about the nearest galaxies, dark matter and other topics. They and eighth grader Coalter Palmer were drawing miniature versions of the Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy and another nearby galaxy known as M33, and arranging them in the classroom proportionally to how they appear in the cosmos. They were also discussing constellations and dark matter.

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