Six Things Everyone Should Know About Astronomy (With Activities) 1. The Organization of the Universe Powers of 10 Web Movie : http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ Toilet Paper Solar System Football Field Solar System AU Yards Sun 0 0.00 Mercury 0.387 1.00 Venus 0.723 1.87 Earth 1 2.58 Mars 1.52 3.93 Jupiter 5.2 13.44 Saturn 9.54 24.65 Uranus 19.19 49.59 Neptune 30.06 77.67 Pluto 39.53 102.14 Comets 50,000 129,199 (miles) 73.41 Alpha Cen 264,600 683,721 (miles) 388.48
2. Why the Earth has Seasons Bicycle Wheel Demonstration
3. Why the Moon has Phases Motions Activity Lunar Phases Simulation: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/lps.html
4. How We Learn about the World through Light Light spectra Incandescent Blackbody Spectral Lines Scattering (Chalk dust, powdered milk) Polarization
5. How Stars Work Random walk out of sun Project CLEA Simulation
6. How Stars are Born, Live and Die Planetarium Software (Stellarium, Celestia) Image Analysis/Data Centers/Online Journals (Aladin, Simbad, ARXIV) Micrometeorites
Six Things Everyone Should Know About Astronomy (With Activities) 1. The Organization of the Universe Powers of 10 Web Movie : http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ Toilet Paper Solar System Football Field Solar System AU Feet Yards Sun 0 0.00 0.00 Mercury 0.387 1.00 1.00 Venus 0.723 1.87 1.87 Earth 1 2.58 2.58 Mars 1.52 3.93 3.93 Jupiter 5.2 13.44 13.44 Saturn 9.54 24.65 24.65 Uranus 19.19 49.59 49.59 Neptune 30.06 77.67 77.67 Pluto 39.53 102.14 102.14 Comets 50000 129198.97 129198.97 (miles) 24.47 73.41 Alpha Cen 264600 683720.93 683720.93 (miles) 129.49 388.48 2. Why the Earth has Seasons Bicycle Wheel Demonstration 3. Why the Moon has Phases Motions Activity Lunar Phases Simulation: http://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/lps.html 4. How We Learn about the World through Light Light spectra Incandescent Blackbody Spectral Lines Scattering (Chalk dust, powdered milk) Polarization 5. How Stars Work Random walk out of sun Project CLEA Simulation 6. How Stars are Born, Live and Die Planetarium Software (Stellarium, Celestia) Image Analysis/Data Centers/Online Journals (Aladin, Simbad, ARXIV) Micrometeorites
Astronomy Resources on the Web Astronomy / Physics Organizations http://www.iau.org/ International Astronomical Union http://www.aas.org/ American Astronomical Society http://astrosociety.org/ Astronomical Society of the Pacific http://www.aps.org/ American Physical Society http://www.physicscentral.com/ American Physical Society General Interest Page (Nice Links) General Information http://www.nineplanets.org/ The Nine Planets everything you want to know about the solar system http://astro.nineplanets.org/ Links to Software, Telescopes and other astronomy info http://www.windows.ucar.edu/ Windows to the Universe Good information, some activities http://moon.google.com/ Go to images of any point on the Moon http://www.google.com/mars/ Go to images of any point on Mars Astronomy Education http://education.nasa.gov/index.html NASA s main Education Program http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/ A clearing house and search site http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway/ NASA s Science Education Gateway http://astro.unl.edu/naap/splash/ Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project Comprehensive Commercial Sites http://www.skypub.com/ Daily Astronomy news, features and links http://space.com/ Daily news, products, images http://www.universetoday.com/ News and info about astronomy http://astronomywebguide.com/ Good set of links to astronomy resources Sky Maps and other Simulators http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/ ImageJ is a viewer & analyzer for many formats, from NIH http://hea-www.harvard.edu/rd/ds9/ DS9 is a viewer for FITS format images http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium is a beautiful free sky stimulator http://www.shatters.net/celestia/index.html A powerful solar system simulator http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/ Add-ons and accessories for Celestia http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ From NASA, lets you zoom into any point on Earth in 3-D http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/cleahome.html From Gettysburg College, Windows Simulations for Astronomy
Journals http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html The NASA/Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service. Provides abstracts and many full-texts of astronomy research articles. http://www.arxiv.org/ Cornell University Library s searchable database of full-print articles from many physics and astronomy journals. Astronomy Pictures http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html Astronomy Picture of the day http://www.nasa.gov/gallery/index.html NASA Clearinghouse for many image and video sites http://nix.nasa.gov/ NASA Image Exchange Searchable database of over 300,000 NASA images and multimedia http://hubblesite.org/gallery/ Hubble Space Telescope Gallery of Images http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html/ Anglo-Australian Observatory Image http://www.noao.edu/noaosci.html National Optical Astronomy Observatories http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/multimedia/index.html Johnson Space Flight Center's images and movies from each lunar mission http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm Jet Propulsion Lab s site, with many images and activities http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/ A NASA "Space Visualization" project; see the Solar System Simulator Data http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/astro.image.html Links to data and image sites http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl Simbad returns measurements and links to any object http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Generates images of any part of the sky at any wavelength http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html Astroweb -- lists of data, image, education sites http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ Aladin Sky Atlas powerful access to images and analysis http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ National Space Science Data System (Also good images) http://riemann.usno.navy.mil/aa/data/ US Naval Observatory's Data about position and time Multimedia http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/ Powers of 10 Note: NASA images without the NASA emblem are not copywritten and may be used freely