Class Information

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• AstroClick! Bring your web enabled devices to class ...
• Other ASTR Courses, the Astronomy Minor, and the Planetary Science Minor.
• NEW: Mid Semester Evaluation!

Useful Links

• Why is the Solar System Flat? (video)
• Venus (video)
• Jupiter's Galilean Moons (animated website)
• A Climate Feedback Loop that we are just beginning to understand.
• Successful Launch of NASA's Europa Clipper
• Bright new comet visible now! Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
• They Might be Giants: The Sun Song (original) and The Sun Song (rockified) (videos) G
• They Might be Giants: Meet the Elements (video)

• The Astronomy Workshop: A set of interactive computer programs for use in ASTR100.
  • Astronomy Classroom: Practice scientific notation and working with equations. Learn about astronomical distances and sizes.
  • Explore the Possibilities: What if an asteroid hit the Earth?
  • Solar System Calculators: Do the math fast!

• Astronomy Picture of the Day This site is updated daily and has a nice archive of pretty astronomy images.
• What's up in the sky? Follow the observing link at Sky & Telescope and/or check out Astronomy Magazine.
• Class Action. Peer instruction questions for Astronomy.
• Explanation for the Seasons
• Homer Simpson in epicycles: Why simple theories are preferred to complicated ones.
• Computerized version of Powers of Ten
• Galileo's leaning tower of Pisa experiment - on the Moon! Apollo 15
• SETI The search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  
• Near Frictionless Surface Video.
  

• Spacewatch This page contains information about this program which searches for near Earth objects.
• Mars Perseverance Rover
• Deep Impact: Maryland Astronomy's NASA mission to crash into a comet.
• Extra Solar Planets Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets around other stars. The list gets longer all the time!

• NASA's Imagine the Universe Follow links to the Astronomer's Toolbox for good info on the Electromagnetic Spectrum.
• Sizes of Stars YouTube Video.
• HR Diagram YouTube Video.
• Pulsars Hear them tick!
• Videos of compact objects, including the expected appearance of things in the vicinity of black holes.

• Space Telescope Science Insitute See the latest deep space pictures and scientific results from the just commissioned JWST.
• Reinhard Genzel's movie of stars orbiting the two million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
• Merging Galaxies - Josh Barnes's pedagogical sequence: initial conditions | merger | snapshot of merger in progress.
• Chris Mihos' Really Cool Merger Simulation which appeared in the IMAX film Cosmic Voyage (24 M).

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