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• Other ASTR Courses, the Astronomy Minor, and the Planetary Science Minor.
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• NEW! Anonymous + Free Bonus Points! ASTR101 Lab Evaluation! Open until Saturday Dec. 10.
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Aug. 29, 2022. Delayed NASA Moon Launch
Sep. 3, 2022. Moon Launch is on for 2:17pm today! Live Coverage and NASA Blog - launch scrubbed @ 11:23am.
Sep. 3, 2022. All about NASA's Space Launch System
Sep. 3, 2022. EOS All about the Sun's 11-year Cycle
Sep. 20, 2022. Maryland Today New Impacts on Mars
Sep. 26, 2022, 7:14pm EDT. DART Impact.
Sep. 27, 2022 @ 11:37am NASA Moon Launch. Delayed by Tropical Storm Ian. Now rescheduled for mid-November, 2022.
Oct. 7, 2022, 6:00pm-9:00pm International Observe the Moon Night. Meet on McKelden Mall. Bad weather delayed this event by a week.
Nov. 8, 2022, 4:00am - 7:00am EDT Total Lunar Eclipse. There is a partial solar eclipse visible from Europe/West Asia two weeks earlier.
Nov. 28, 2022. Moon Shot: Follow the Artemis Blog

• The Astronomy Workshop: A set of interactive computer programs for use in ASTR101.
  • 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? What if a Rogue Star passed through our Solar System?
  • 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.
• Supplementary Information for UMD Introductory Astronomy. This site includes useful practice automatically graded multiple choice questions!
• 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.
  

• Spacewatch This page contains information about this program which searches for near Earth objects.
• Mars Rover missions: Spirit & Opportunity.
• New Horizons mission to Pluto.
• 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.
• Galaxy appearance and classification.
• 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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