Astro 10, Spring 2004

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• The Hubble Space Telescope
• Bad Astronomy
• Various "Ask an Astronomer" websites
  • Ask An Astronomer at Lick Observatory
  • Ask a High-Energy Astronomer
  • Curious About Astronomy? Ask an Astronomer
  • Chandra - Educational Materials - Ask an Astrophysicist
  • Astronomy Question and Answer at UVa
  • Ask a Radio Astronomer

(Celestial Sphere)

• The Moon's Phase
• University of Illinois Demos
  • Seasons
  • Moon phases
  • Retrograde Motion

(Light & Multiwavelength Astronomy)

• The Multiwavelength Milky Way
• Invisible Universe - Tour
• Spitzer Telescope - Cool Cosmos
  • Cool Cosmos - Multiwavelength Astronomy
  • Cool Cosmos - Multiwavelength Messier Museum
  • Cool Cosmos - Infrared Light video
• Spectra of many elements

(Telescopes)

• Sky & Telescope Magazine Article: Choosing Your First Telescope
• The Nuts & Bolts of the Hubble Space Telescope

(Stars)

• Explore Learning Doppler Effect demonstration
• JAVA parallax demo at Cornell
• NOAO OBAFGKM Stellar Spectra
• James Kaler's illustrated page on stellar spectra
• Algol binary star system movie
• Cool Cosmos - IR Orion constellation
• Solar Sails (radiation pressure)
  • NASA Solar Sail project
  • Science How Stuff Works - Solar Sail
• Binary Star Mass Transfer Research at Penn State
• Hubble Space Telescope study of the light echo from a peculiar Nova
• Two accretion disk movies (credited to John Blondin of NCSU).
  • Wider field view
  • Disk only view
• Crab Nebula (supernova remnant)
• Supernova 1987a Hubble Heritage
  • SN 1987a before and after
• The High-z Supernova Search
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the discovery of pulsars
• The Discovery of Pulsar Planets

(Milky Way)

• UCLA Galactic Center Research
• Radio Observations of the Galactic Center
• Chandra X-Ray observations of the Galactic Center
  • brief, intense flare in 2001
  • multiple image of Sgr A*
  • Zoom in and Artist's Conception animations of Sgr A*

(Other Galaxies)

• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars
• Information about Edwin Hubble:
  • Biography of Edwin Hubble from Time Magazine
  • Allan Sandage's (long) biography of Edwin Hubble
• The Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field

(Astrobiology and SETI)

• Penn State Astrobiology Research Center
• NASA Astrobiology Institute
• SETI@home
• The SETI Institute

(Solar System)

• Nine Planets by Bill Arnett
• Solar System Scale Model
• NEAR mission to asteroid Eros
• Comet Orbits from the Comet's Tale
• Chronology of Solar System Exploration
• NASA National Space Science Data Center
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Mars
• Kuiper Belt