Some recently found sites that are great to look
at.
http://www.stargazing.net/David/index.html
http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM
http://galaxy.phy.cmich.edu/~axel/mwpan2/krpano/
50 years ago Frank Drake came up with an equation
to estimate if there might be intelligent life elsewhere. Here
is an article from ASP that looks back on what its effect has
been.
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/77/77.html
This is one the “Universe in the Classroom”
series. You can get future issues by going to
http://www.astrosociety.org/education.html
KEPLER FINDS 1,200 EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
The 1,200 planets found were in an area 1/400 of the sky. 170
of the systems had multiple (up to 6) transiting planets. This
is transiting planets only! These are only a small fraction
of possible planets because only a small fraction of planet
orbits are tilted so that they transit.!!! http://www.nasa.gov/kepler
Investigators have shown that there is not a link
between black holes in galaxies and dark matter.
http://www.astronomy.com/News-Observing/News/2011/01/No%20direct%20link%20between%20
black%20holes%20and%20dark%20matter.aspx?utm_source=
SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASY_News_Sub_110128_final&utm_content=
I just added these for Judy.
This site will tell about the types of telescopes.
http://www.telescopes.com/telescopes/helpunderstandingtelescopesarticle.cfm
more info from Meade telescopes
http://www.protelescope.com/StoreFrontProfiles/deluxeSFshop.aspx?sid=1&sfid=95134&c=68847
Here are some new links I have discovered that
are interesting. Take a look.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/09/16/best-ever-view-of-andromeda-in-ultraviolet/
http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/milky-way/the-milky-way-and-andromeda/
http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/galaxies/distance-to-andromeda/
This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of
the Chandra X-Ray observatory. Here is a group of images of
greatest hits. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/19aug_chandra10.htm?list899987
Have you ever wondered how spacecraft arrive at
their destinations millions of miles away and exactly at the
right time? http://www.universetoday.com/2009/08/21/the-navigators-how-we-fly-spacecraft-around-the-solar-system/
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/08/12/hubble-ultra-deep-field-in-3-d/
New information about the low count of sun spots.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm?list899987
How to look for sunspots.
http://www.universetoday.com/2003/10/24/see-the-sunspots-for-yourself/
The Pinwheel Galaxy. Its bigger and headed our
way.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/new-image-reveals-m33-is-bigger-than-thought-and-its-headed-our-way/
Saturn has its rings turned edge on to the Earth,
you can see its moons cross the cloud tops and eveen see the
shadows of the moons going across the planet. Four of the moons
will do this on the 24th of Feb 09. Get information and even
a movie of what to expect at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/19feb_quadrupletransit.htm?list899987
Fairly bright comet Lulin is visible in the late
evening sky. Check out images and a sky map at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm
More images can be found at http://spaceweather.com/
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090203-spirit-rover-glitch.html
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/39951532.html
Comet Lulin is getting brighter. Find new images
and info at http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_lulin_page8.htm
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/16/galaxy-zoo-2-launches/
Launch the full version of Galaxy Zoo 2. By going to www.galaxyzoo.org
and classifying galaxies - even if you only have time to do
a few - you'll be contributing to a scientific project that
has led to time on some of the world's largest and most famous
telescopes (including the Hubble Space Telescope) and is changing
the way we think about how galaxies form and evolve.
The University of Chicago is operating a new South
Pole Telescope. This unique location allows it to see microwaves
in a way that can reveal new information about the big bang
and the early universe. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/16/cosmologists-search-for-gravity-waves-to-prove-inflation-theory/
A new computer simulation of the early universe
predicts how “dark matter” caused clumping of normal
matter into galaxies. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/10/cosmologists-look-back-to-cosmic-dawn/
The smallest extra-solar planet yet discovered
is only twice the mass of Earth.
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7888
Google Earth now has an upgrade that allows you
to roam on Mars as well.
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7889
The chicken and egg question, which came first,
has a cosmological side. Black holes or galaxies, which came
first? It turns out they grow together. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7887
One the races in astronomy is to find smaller
and smaller planets around other stars. Most of the over 300
found so far are giants like Jupiter. Smaller is better because
Earth sized planets are the goal. A new smallest has been found.
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/03/smallest-terrestrial-exoplanet-yet-detected/
The Mars rovers that were to operate for three
months have just passed their fifth anniversary on the red planet.
Both have suffered from problems that seemed to put them out
of operation, but they keep coming back. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/05/opportunity-rover-sidelined-by-charged-particle-hit/
The Mars orbiting MRO spacecraft has just imaged
an amazing event: an asteroid brake-up and impact. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/05/hirise-captures-bolide-break-up-and-impact-on-mars/
Finally, if you want to help choose a Hubble target
to be released as part of the International Year of Astronomy
go to http://YouDecide.Hubblesite.org
to cast your vote.
The next generation of telescopes is about to
become a reality. Consortiums are getting ready to build telescopes
with 100 foot mirrors or even more. http://www.universetoday.com/2009/02/07/next-generation-telescope-gets-team/
The Chinese are about to build a 500 meter radio telescope.
It will be twice the sensitivity of the 300 meter Arecibo telescope.
http://www.telescope.com/control/category/~category_id=lc-in-the-sky;jsessionid=3B290655DA17359235FDF2A7B07DEA20.ivprod1
http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/Library/all-issues.html
"When you do discovery work, you never know
what you're going to find. You hope to find interesting objects.
Depending on what you find, you then move in that direction."
http://www.universetoday.com/category/extrasolar-planets/
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/13/could-aa-tauri-hold-the-biochemical-key-to-extra-terrestrial-life/#comments
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/rgb.php
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/01
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/eagle.php
Colliding galaxies. Collisions, or mergers, between
galaxies are common in the universe. Gravity causes some galaxies
that are close together to tangle and ultimately unite over
millions of years. Though stars in merging galaxies are tossed
around like sand, they have a lot of space between them and
survive the ride. Our Milky Way galaxy will team up with the
Andromeda galaxy in five billion years. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5877
Multi-planet system found http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5575
This astonishing image was not taken as part of
an ongoing research project, but came about by chance on a night
when viewing conditions prevented a team of astronomers from
using the telescope for their planned observation. They opted
to zero in on the Crab Nebula and take a pretty picture that
would also be useful.
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5278
For years, the oddity of the Sun's temperature
environment has befuddled astronomers. The Sun is extremely
hot deep inside and gets cooler far away, except that the chromosphere,
the thin region of the Sun's atmosphere visible as a "ring
of fire" during solar eclipses, is extremely hot, despite
its distance from the Sun's center. Similarly, the Sun's outer
atmosphere, its corona, is also exceptionally hot. Solar physicists
cannot explain why. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5607yet
SERIUS
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080314-ns-dog-star.html
http://www.universetoday.com:80/2008/03/10/binocular-astronomy-get-sirius/
Ever wonder about the new ”dwarf” planets”.
Get the take on these objects from Mike Brown, the most prolific
discoverer of them at http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dwarfplanets/
There is even more info at a good Wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet
We keep getting a new biggest telescope every
few years. Here is the newest giant scope. http://www.universetoday.com:80/2008/03/10/the-worlds-most-powerful-telescope-sees-first-light/
More discoveries of disks around other stars hint
at how our solar system formed.
http://www.universetoday.com:80/2008/03/13/a-disk-of-sand-found-orbiting-a-young-binary-system/
There is an archive of hundreds of thousands of
images of the Earth taken by astronauts at http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
You can search the data base for where you want to see.
This first link should be your first stop. It
is from the publisher of your texbook and contains such wonderful
materials as chapter outlines, study notes, learning objectives,
web links, and even games involving astronomy.
Finally, don’t miss this amazing image of
Mars’ moon Phobos. It will knock your socks off. http://www.universetoday.com:80/2008/04/09/amazing-image-of-the-martian-moon-phobos/
http://www.brookscole.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&discipline_number=19&product_isbn_issn=0534378552
NSTA Science Links:
www.scilinks.org
NOTE: I have made a link to NSTA. Highlight the
HK#### that you want to look at and right click the mouse and
copy. Clicking the button above will launch your Web browser
and take you to the NSTA sciLINKS site. You may log in as a
guest or register as a student. After you log in the next page
will show a box that you can put the cursor in and right click
and paste. Hit enter and it will take you to the NSTA links.
The Universe
TOPIC: Meteors KEYWORD: HK1161
TOPIC: Milky Way galaxy KEYWORD: HK1162
TOPIC: Origin of the universe KEYWORD: HK1163
TOPIC: Stars KEYWORD: HK1164
TOPIC: Planets KEYWORD: HK1165
TOPIC: Formation of the elements KEYWORD: HK1166
www.scilinks.org
Stars and Galaxies
TOPIC: What Is a Star? CODE: MES270
TOPIC: How Stars Evolve CODE: MES271
TOPIC: The Hubble Space Telescope CODE: MES272
TOPIC: Constellations CODE: MES274
TOPIC: Galaxies CODE: MES276
TOPIC: The Big Bang CODE: MES278
www.scilinks.org
The Solar System
TOPIC: Early Astronomers CODE: MES290
TOPIC: Inner Planets CODE: MES292
TOPIC: Outer Planets CODE: MES293
TOPIC: Galileo CODE: MES294
TOPIC: Comets CODE: MES296
TOPIC: Asteroids CODE: MES297
TOPIC: Meteoroids CODE: MES298
www.scilinks.org
The Sun
TOPIC: Sun CODE: MES280
TOPIC: Solar Activity CODE: MES282
TOPIC: Origins of the Solar System CODE: MES284
TOPIC: Careers in Science CODE: MES286
www.scilinks.org
The Earth
TOPIC: Earth’s geologic layers KEYWORD: HK1701
TOPIC: Plate tectonics KEYWORD: HK1702
TOPIC: Earthquakes KEYWORD: HK1703
TOPIC: Volcanoes KEYWORD: HK1704
TOPIC: Rock types KEYWORD: HK1705
TOPIC: Erosion KEYWORD: HK1706
TOPIC: Sonar KEYWORD: HK1707
TOPIC: Paleontology KEYWORD: HK1900
www.scilinks.org
Moons and Rings
TOPIC: Earth’s Moon CODE: MES300
TOPIC: Eclipses CODE: MES302
TOPIC: Lunar Cycle CODE: MES304
TOPIC: Moons of Other Planets CODE: MES306
www.scilinks.org
The Atmosphere
TOPIC: Visible light KEYWORD: HK1801
TOPIC: Layers of the atmosphere KEYWORD: HK1802
TOPIC: Ozone depletion KEYWORD: HK1803
TOPIC: Water cycle KEYWORD: HK1804
TOPIC: Severe weather KEYWORD: HK1805
TOPIC: Weather maps KEYWORD: HK1806
www.scilinks.org
Light and Reflection
TOPIC: Electromagnetic spectrum sciLINKS CODE: HF2141
TOPIC: Light bulbs sciLINKS CODE: HF2142
TOPIC: Mirrors sciLINKS CODE: HF2143
TOPIC: Telescopes sciLINKS CODE: HF2144
TOPIC: Color sciLINKS CODE: HF2145
Atomic Theory
TOPIC: Early atomic theory sciLINKS CODE: HF2234
TOPIC: Modern atomic theory sciLINKS CODE: HF2235
www.scilinks.org
Subatomic Physics
TOPIC: Atomic nucleus sciLINKS CODE: HF2251
TOPIC: Radioactive decay sciLINKS CODE: HF2252
TOPIC: Fission/fusion sciLINKS CODE: HF2253
TOPIC: Antiparticles sciLINKS CODE: HF2254
www.scilinks.org
NOTE: I have made a link to NSTA. Highlight the HK#### that
you want to look at and right click the mouse and copy. Clicking
the button above will launch your Web browser and take you to
the NSTA sciLINKS site. You may log in as a guest or register
as a student. After you log in the next page will show a box
that you can put the cursor in and right click and paste. Hit
enter and it will take you to the NSTA links.
www.scilinks.org
Resources for Chapter 6
http://www.stsci.edu/ Hubble
Space Telescope page
http://www.noao.edu/ National
Optical Astronomy Observation page. Kit Peak, Cerro Tololo InterAmerican
Observatory, Sacramento Peak Observatory.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/
Institute for astronomy at the University of Hawaii (Mona Kea).
Resources for Chapter 7
http://www.stsci.edu/ Hubble
Space Telescope page
http://www.noao.edu/ National
Optical Astronomy Observation page. Kit Peak, Cerro Tololo InterAmerican
Observatory, Sacramento Peak Observatory.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/
Institute for astronomy at the University of Hawaii (Mona Kea).
Resources for Chapter 26
Meteors
http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/comets/
http://meteorites.lpl.arizona.edu/
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
http://www.arm.ac.uk/leonid/
Comets
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/CometsTale/com.html
http://cometography.com/
http://www.skyrover.net/notebook/
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/faculty/jewitt/kb.html
Astroids
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/asteroid.htm
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-asteroids.html
Impacts
http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/
http://www.barringercrater.com/
http://www.stsci.edu/exined/Impact.html
NSTA Science Links:
www.scilinks.org
Discovering the Universe
http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/overview.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/29033/l
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/solar_system/solar_system_index.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/stars_galaxies/stars_galaxies_index.cfm
Astronomers
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kepler.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Brahe.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/BiogIndex.html
Astronomiae Historia
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
Currently contains more than 400 files (Web pages), which would
give several thousand pages on paper if printed out. Designed
as a general history of astronomy, it is especially strong on
biographical information for famous astronomers.
Cosmology
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html
What is Cosmology? What's all the excitement about? This page
links to others that attempt to answer these and other questions.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html
An introductory to cosmology. This page links to others that
address questions like, How fast is the universe expanding?
What, is the universe made of?
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/dm.html
http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/study/sci/cosmo/internal/olbers.htm
Views on dark matter and Olber's Paradox, respectively.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/mission_overview.html
A mission overview of MAP, which is set to launch December 1999.
Image Galleries
NASA - Visible Earth
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations
of the Earth.
NASA - Planetary Photojournal
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
JPL's image database consists mainly of solar system images
- planets, moons, and space debris. There are also some sections
on space exploration, and the universe at large.
The Messier Catalog
http://www.seds.org/messier/
A guide to the 110 objects recognized as the standard Messier
catalog. For each object, an image is presented together with
a short description; click on the image to get a larger-format
version.
HubbleSite
http://hubble.stsci.edu/
Made to celebrate the telescope's 10th year in space, this site
is a collection of some of Hubble's top photos and discoveries.
William Keel's Gallery
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/agn/
Quasars and active galaxies.
Astronomy Publications
Astronomy Magazine
http://www.astronomy.com/
Sky & Telescope Magazine
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
Star Gazer
http://www.jackstargazer.com/
Star Gazer is billed as the world's only weekly television series
on naked-eye astronomy. Each episode features selected objects
for observing over the following week. The episodes are between
1 and 5 minutes long and can be downloaded in streaming video
(RealPlayer) if you missed the PBS broadcast.
InfoTrac College Edition
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/
Thomson Learning brings you over 14 million online articles
from a variety of magazines and newspapers. This web site requires
you to register with the code supplied with your text.
NSTA Science Links:
www.scilinks.org
There is a new link to the Huygens space probe
that just landed on Titan. It is http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/main/index.html
