Links to
supplemental material for
Astronomy 107
Chap 1: Overview
CNN's
version of Top 10 Days in History of Astronomy, CNN, 20 Feb 2008
Great
Astronomy/Space photos with Music: a prelude to things you'll see in
this
course, greatdanepro.com, 2005
Armstrong Museum in OH Aims to End Lunar Landing Conspiracy Theories
9 Apr 2007, space.com
REAL
dates for when
Sun is in constellations of the Zodiac
Comparison of
astronomy and astrology (both
kinds, Western and Vedic (Indian), with discussion of precession etc.
Grab-bag of astronomy videos (VERY USEFUL!) from Astronomy Today,
Chaisson-McMillan
Grab-bag of astronomy videos (VERY USEFUL!) from Rick Pogge's Astro 161
Course from Ohio State
Grab-bag of astronomy videos (VERY USEFUL!) from Rick Pogge's Astro 162
Course from Ohio State
Excellent
Scale
Model+graphic of Solar System sizes, distances (1 AU=3m, Earth = 0.25mm
grain of salt, Uranus=1mm BB)
Why
astrology is not science (from badastronomy.com)
Large
Numbers of
People (unfortunately) Believe in Pseudoscience 27 Oct 2006
Simulator:
Rotating Sky Explorer to understand the celestial sphere
Musical Parodies and
Limericks
from the Big Bang Band
Chap 3: Light and Telescopes
Telescopes
from the Ground Up (great review material)
Was the
Telescope invented in Spain?, BBC, 16 Sep 2008
Fr.
Niccolo Zucchi, SJ (1586-1670),
inventor of the first reflecting telescope, Encyclopedia Britannica
online
James
Gregory (1638-1675),
inventor of the first practical (Gregorian) reflecting telescope,
Encyclopedia Britannica online
James
Webb Space Telescope (successor to Hubble) will seek First Stars in
Universe
Astro-Tourism:
a Great View for Big Donors
Journey to Palomar: website
for a
documentary describing three revolutionary telescopes of the
19th-20th-21st centuries
Atacama
Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) submm telescope
An
assortment of observatory homepages, both on the ground and in space
Video:
Adaptive Optics
Permits ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to observe Jupiter in
Best-Ever Detail from Ground, space.com, Oct 2008 and ESO
Details
(text+photos) on ESO's Best-Ever
Images from Ground of Jupiter, using new Adaptive Optics Instrument,
European Southern Observatory, 2 Oct 2008
Neat
website on Effects of Airglow in near-IR Bands (pictures + movies),
Joe Adams & Mike Skrutskie, U Virginia
The
Effect of Adaptive Optics
Large
Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in Mexico Inaugurated, 23 Nov 2006
Edwin
Hubble's Connection to Louisville, Courier-Journal, 21 Mar 2007
Light
pollution around Louisville KY
List of a few major astronomical satellites:
past, present, future (local site)
Comprehensive
list of astronomical satellites (Caltech site)
ESA
about to Launch Herschel Space IR Telescope, BBC, 9 Feb 2009
Chap 4: Observing the Stars and Planets
Fred Espenak of
NASA's Eclipse Website - the ultimate information source, NASA
Goddard Space Flight
Center
Animation
of Why We Have Seasons, U Illinois Astronomy Dept.
Excellent
Animation of Lunar Phases, U Illinois Astronomy Dept.
Great Explanation
of Star Motions Seen from Different Latitudes
Facts
and Myths about the Equator
Why is the
Sky Blue? (because the scattered light in air is blue!)
Total
Eclipse in Africa & Asia, 29 Mar 2006
Annular
Eclipse in South America, 22 Sep 2006
BBC
animation of
a solar eclipse, BBC
youtube.com schematic animations of lunar/solar eclipses ,
youtube.com
classzone.com animations of views of total, partial and annulur solar
eclipses, classzone.com
animation of lunar eclipse view with realistic colors, Frank Reddy,
Celestial Delights
Chap 5: Gravitation & Motion
Myth-buster: How
Tycho Brahe really died (mercury poisoning!), Steno and Orion
Planetaria, Denmark, reprinted from
Jacobsen, A.R. & Petersen, L., Planetarian, Vol 30, #4, Dec 2001
Time-lapse
images of
Neptune showing Retrograde Motion 28 Sep - 26 Oct 2001
Retrograde
Motion
Explained (Superior and inferior planets, depending on your point
of view)
Another (more
detailed) explanation of Retrograde Motion
Simulator:
Retrograde motion
Simulator:
Kepler's Laws
Another
Simulator:
Kepler's Laws
Simulator:
Planetary Orbits
Illustration
of Newton's
Laws and Tides, George Rieke, U. Arizona
Chap 6: Terrestrial Planets & Motion
General
Great
explanation for tides
Excellent
explanation/animation of precession from Germany
Smart
Dust May Explore Planets,
BBC, 18 Apr 2007
Wikipedia article
on Precession/Nutation
Earth
Active map of Plate
Tectonics,
geology.com
Earth's
Core is Asymmetric, as it's
Coupled with the Asymmetric Mantle,
Physics Today, Back Scatter, Sep 2008
Picture
of Earth's Aurora from Space (Image Satellite)
Picture
of Earth's Aurora from Space (ISS)
Another Picture
of Earth's Aurora from Space (ISS), with Manicougan Impact Crater,
European
Spacecraft Find Electric Fields Control Aurorae on Earth,
space.com, 26 Feb 2007
Ozone
Hole
Over Antarctica RETARDS Warming, Science Daily, 24 Apr 2008
BBC
Report on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/default.stmFeb. 2, 2007 UN
Global Warming Announcement
BBC
Report on Feb. 2, 2007 UN Global Warming Announcement: Climate Change
in
Graphics
BBC
Report on Feb. 2, 2007 UN Global Warming Announcement: Modelling the
Climate
One of
many guides to Greenhouse Effect on Earth
Animated
guide to greenhouse effect, BBC, 28 Aug 2008
Water Vapor
is
Most Important Greenhouse Gas on Earth, CNN, 17 Oct 2006
Sun
Acquitted of Causing Global Warming, 15 Sep 2006
Moon
Great
Explanation
of Lunar Motions, including Libration (nodding/rocking) due to
Elliptical, Inclined Orbit
Moon
May Disintegrate when Sun Becomes Red Giant, space.com, 22 Jan 2007
Doubt
Cast on Lunar Ice Deposits, 18 Oct 2006
Mercury
NASA Mercury Messenger homepage
(1st fly-by 14 Jan 2008, 2nd 6 Oct 2008, 3rd 29 Sep 2009)
Mercury
Messenger animations
U. Montana website
Top
10 Mysteries from Mercury, space.com, Mar 2008, from NASA Mercury
Messenger
Venus
ESA
Venus
Express homepage (orbiter, arrived 2006)
ESA's
Venus Express: Venus'
Atmosphere More Chaotic than Thought, space.com, 10 Apr 2007
Aurorae on
Venus, from NASA
Venus' Slow
Retrograde Rotation
likely due to Early Collision History, Bulletin Amer. Astron. Soc,
2006
Faint
Green Glowing Aurorae on Venus from Solar Wind Impact, space.com,
22 Jan 2001
Mars
NASA Mars Odyssey homepage
NASA Mars
Spirit/Opportunity Rover homepage
Dramatic
Mars
Rover Photos, including Dust Devil Animations
Video
of Flight through Valles Marineris, NASA JPL, 13 Mar 2006
Weak,
Patchy Aurorae Discovered on Mars, different from Venus', ESA Mars
Express, 9 June 2005
More
Aurorae from Mars, ESA Mars Express, 20 Feb 2006
Spirit
Finds Evidence of Hot Springs on Mars,
BBC, 11 Dec 2007
Mars
Heats Up by 0.6C due
to Albedo Changes,
CNN, 4 Apr 2007
Solar Wind Rips Chunks out of Martian Atmosphere, Science Daily, 29
Nov 2008
Frozen
Sea
on Mars May Harbor Life, BBC, 29 Jan 2007
Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter Starts High Resolution Observations, NOAA
site
Giant
Underground Ice Reservoir Discovered at Mars' South Pole,
space.com, 15 Mar 2007
Ice
Geysers
Discovered on Mars, BBC, 20 Aug 2006
Chap 7: Jovian Planets
General
Good source for
solar system animations, ciclops.org
Solar System animations from JPL, JPL
JPL Solar System page (updated continuously), JPL
Jupiter
Jupiter's
Rocky-Metallic Core Bigger than Thought, space.com, 25 Nov 2008
MORE DETAILED: Jupiter's
Rocky-Metallic Core Bigger than Thought, U California, Berkeley, 25 Nov 2008
Giant
Storms Erupt on Jupiter, space.com, 28 Jan
2008
Saturn
Huygens Probe Descent Animation, low-res, narrated, JPL
Huygens Probe Descent Animation, high-res, unnarrated, JPL
Saturn cloud animations, merging vortices, JPL
Saturn cloud animations, merging vortices, full-disk view, JPL
Titan animation showing different wavelength views, JPL
Saturn's Rings may be Very Old and Constantly Recycling,BBC, 13 Dec
2007
Cassini
Probe Discovers New Partial Rings around Saturn
, space.com, 5 Sep 2008
Saturn's Black/White Moon Iapetus may be Picking Up Dust,BBC, 9 Oct
2007
Hydrocarbon Lakes Discovered on Titan,
BBC, 14 Mar 2007
Saturn
Moon Enceladus Plumes May have Liquid Water, space.com, 26 Nov 2008
Saturn
Moon Enceladus Good Place to Look for Life, 10 Apr 2006
Saturn's Moon Enceladus Sprays E-Ring, Other Moons with Icy Material,
BBC, 8 Feb 2007
Cassini
Discovers Comet-like Organic Molecules in Enceladus Geysers,
space.com, 26 Mar 2008
Shepherd Satellites
Pan, Atlas have Equatorial Ridges from Accretion, www.physorg.com,
6 Dec 2007
High
Resolution Mosaic
of Saturn's Rings, APOD, 24 Oct 2007
"Propeller"
features in Saturn's Rings caused by Missing Link Moonlets, Jet
Propulsion
Lab Cassini press release, 29 Mar 2006
New
Ring Discovered Around Saturn, space.com, 20 Sep 2006
New
Ring Discovered Around Saturn, BBC, 20 Sep 2006
Saturn
Moon Titan has Dusty Ethane Dunes, 11 Oct 2006
New
Shepherd Moons Found near Newly Discovered Rings of Saturn, 11 Oct
2006
Titan's
Organic Haze may be like Earth's Primordial Atmosphere, 7
Nov
2006
Enormous Storm 8000km wide found on Saturn, 9 Nov 2006 (thanks to
Roger
Riddell for pointing it out)
Uranus
Rings of Uranus show changes as they are seen edge-on,BBC, 23 Aug
2007
Herschel May have Seen Rings around Uranus in 1797, BBC, 18 Apr 2007
Uranus
Develops First Recorded Dark Spot, 26 Oct
2006
Chap 8: Pluto, Comets and Space Debris
NASA
launches Dawn probe to Vesta and Ceres,
BBC, 27 Sep 2007
Asteroid
Family of Dinosaur-Killer Identified,
Toronto Globe & Mail, 5 Sep 2007
Software
Models Consequences of Asteroid Impacts on Earth,
space.com, 10 Apr 2007
Amateurs
Help Professionals Map Out Binary (rubble pile) Asteroid 90 Antiope,
space.com, 29 Mar 2007
Light
Pressure from Sun Makes Asteroids Rotate Faster, BBC, 7 Mar 2007
One
Asteroid, not Several, Killed Dinosaurs, 1 Dec 2006
40
Year Old Mars Meteor Mystery said solved, 23 Aug 2006
New
Pluto Satellites
named Nix, Hydra, 1 Dec 2006
Dwarf
Planet
Could Become Comet,
BBC, 17 Jan 2007
New
(Dwarf) Planet Named Eris, moon Dysnomia,
23 Jun 2006
Great
page on Kuiper Belt Objects
and Oort Cloud, spacetoday.org
Another Great page on Kuiper Belt, NY Times, 12 Sep 2006
Eris page of
Mike Brown, Eris' discoverer, 14 Sep 2006
Stardust Comet
Sample Return Mission, (successfully landed 15 Jan 2006)
Fifth
Dwarf Planet Named: Haumea, space.com, 19 Sep 2008
Pallasite
(Crystals Embedded in Iron) Meteorite found in Kansas, CNN 16 Oct
2006
Simulated
Giant 150-200km diameter Asteroid Impact on Earth (8 minutes), NHK
video via a blog site
Chap 9: Our Solar System and Others
Continuously updated List
Information about known Exoplanets from All Methods (313
as of 21 Oct 2008), Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia (European site)
Continuously updated List &
Information about known Exoplanets from Radial Velocities (228
as of 10 Feb 2008), California & Carnegie Planet Search,
exoplanets.org
Excellent
Site Explaining how to Find Exoplanets, Nat'l Ctr for Atmospheric
Research
Wikipedia
Site Explaining how to Find Exoplanets, Wikipedia
Page
of Animations describing Exoplanet Formation and Discovery, U.
Arizona Dept of Astronomy
Animations of Exoplanet
Discovery Methods, rml3.com
Water
Found in Atmosphere of Extra-Solar Planet, space.com, 10 Apr 2007
Proto-planetary
Disks around Double Stars Common, space.com, 29 Mar 2007
Hot
Jupiter Atmospheres Lack Water, space.com, 23 Feb 2007
French
CoRoT Planet-finding Mission Homepage, launched 27 Dec 2006
NASA Kepler Mission Homepage,
scheduled to launch March 2009
Discovery
Magazine
article on finding an Exo-Earth, about the CoRoT and Kepler satellites,
Discover Magazine, Nov 2008
Discovery
Magazine
article on finding an Exo-Earth, about the CoRoT and Kepler satellites,
Discover Magazine, text only, Nov 2008
Rotation-Locked
Hot Jupiter is Fire on One Side, Ice on Other, space.com, 12 Oct
2006
New
Planet Discovered, only 25% as Dense as Water, 15 Sep 2006
Nearest
Planet to Solar System May Be Close Enough to Image, 9 Oct 2006
Distorted
Solar System Found (planet, star, brown dwarf), 19 Sep 2006
Distant
Hot Jupiters found by Transit Method, 26 Sep 2006
Hubble
Team Observing Galactic
Bulge Finds New Class of Ultra-short Period Exoplanets, 4 Oct 2006
First
Direct Image of
an Exo-Planet, from ESO VLT, 30 Apr 2005
Video
of
formation of Planets around a Pulsar, NASA JPL, 5 Apr 2006
French
CoRot Satellite Discovers Smallest Exoplanet yet ("Hot Super-Earth",
<2 Earth diameters), BBC, 3 Feb 2009
Chap 10: Our Star: The Sun
Nice
overview of
Sun, Stanford U Solar Center
World Book
at NASA of the Sun - good,
technical, NASA
NASA Marshall Solar Physics
site, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL
Movies
from SOHO satellite (lots of explosions/eruptions!), NASA
Solar
Wind Termination Shock
(Edge) is Squashed by Interstellar Magnetic Field, space.com, 11
Dec 2007
X-ray
Images from NASA Stereo mission show more Turbulent Magnetic Field on
Sun than
thought, 21 Mar 2007
Sun
not Responsible for Recent Climate Change, 15 Sep 2006
Japan
Launches Satellite to Observe Solar Flares, 23 Sep 2006
Japanese
Satellite Hinode Returns First Observations, 29 Nov 2006
NASA
Launches Twin Satellites to Observe Coronal Mass Ejections in Stereo,
25 Oct 2006
Glossary
of Solar Terms
Chap 11: Stars: Distant Suns
Simulations of Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram showing Stellar Evolution,
U. Illinois Astronomy Dept.
Simulations of Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram showing Stellar Evolution,
U. Illinois Astronomy Dept.
Swift Satellite Detects Giant Flare on II Pegasi, 7 Nov 2006
Nomenclature for Variable Stars, British Astronomical Association
The Largest Known Star (in radius): VV Cephei, 19AU: , NASA
Goddard "Ask an Astrophysicist" (after question by K. Sproul, Astro
107 Au 2008)
"Star Cities", PowerPoint file on Globular Clusters, from 2008 Bullitt Lecture by Prof. Caty Pilachowski (Indiana U.)
Chap 12: How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces
>Black Holes in Centers of Nearby Galaxies Likely Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, BBC, 8 Nov 2007
Simulation of Formation of a Star Cluster (click on "animations"), Ian Bonnell, St Andrews U, Scotland, 2008
Animation
of Star
Formation Triggered by Nearby Supernova, Chandra X-ray Observatory
website
Element
118 Created (briefly!), 17 Oct 2006
Brown
Dwarf Survives being Engulfed by Red Giant, 2 Aug 2006
Chap 13: Death of Stars: Recycling
Stellar
Evolution on H-R Diagram (simulations),
Cornell U. Astronomy Dept.
Interactive
H-R Diagram from Proto-Star to White Dwarf, aspire.cosmic-ray.org
Animation
of Merging White Dwarfs making Gravity Waves (#5), Chandra Science
Center
Animation of Core
Collapse (Type II) Supernova, NASA Goddard HEASARC
More
Detailed Animation of Core Collapse (Type II) Supernova,
thinkquest.org
Medium
Energy Cosmic Rays probably from Supernovae, High Energy may be from
Active Galaxies, 22 Aug 2008, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
High
Energy Cosmic Rays come from Distant Galaxies, Science Daily, 25
Mar 2008
Supernovae
Cause Some Cosmic Rays, BBC, 4 Nov 2004
New
Mechanism
for O-rich Red Giants to Blow Off Outer Layers, 9 Apr 2007,
space.com
Pulsars
Support Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, 18 Sep 2006
New
Type of Supernova Complicates Estimates of Universe Size, 20 Sep
2006
NASA's
Swift Satellite Catches Two Supernovae in One Galaxy, 22 Nov
2006
New
Supernova Preserves Onion-structure in Remnant, 26 Oct
2006
Remnant
for SN 185AD found, 26 Sep
2006
Chap 14: Black Holes: The End of Space and Time
Space
Telescope Science Institute page on Black Holes (and other things)
Hubblesite.org page
on Black Holes (and other things)
Animation
of Merging Neutron Star and Black Hole making a Gamma Ray Burst (#6),
Chandra Science Center
Animation
of Merging Neutron Stars making a Gamma Ray Burst (#7), Chandra
Science Center
New
Black Hole
Discovered, Variability Surprises Astronomers, 2006 Nov 30
Chuck Keeton
(a native Louisvillian) on Black Holes for Nova on PBS
Realistic
Description of a Plunge
into a Black Hole
Chap 15: Our Galaxy the Milky Way
Milky Way Outer Halo Rotates Opposite Rest of Galaxy, MSU
announcement, Jan 2008
Massive Cosmic Bullets Fly Through Orion Star Formation Region,
space.com, 22 Mar 2007
How Massive Stars Settle at the Centers of Globular Clusters, 30
Oct 2006
Most Distant Gamma Ray Burst Observed (redshift z=6.7), space.com,
19 Sep 2008
Movie of Stars Orbiting Supermassive Black Hole at Milky Way Center,
28 Mar
2007, Max-Planck-Institut (MPE), Garching
Chap 16: A Universe of Galaxies
Galaxy Zoo: Public Help for
Classifying Millions of Galaxies, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, 2007
Dr.
Rick Pogge's Galaxy Types page, The Ohio State University, 2008
Giant
Void 300Mpc across Found, BBC, 14 Sep 2007
Most
Distant Galaxy Detected, BBC, 24 Aug 2007
Biggest
3-D Map of Galaxies Ever Made, 5 Oct 2006
Movies of
Galaxy Formation from N-body
Simulations, Matthias Steinmetz, Astrophysikalisches Institut
Potsdam
Four
New Milky
Way Satellite Galaxies Found, total up to about 20, 28 Aug 2006
Team
Finds Gravitational Signature of Dark Matter in Collision of Galaxy
Clusters, 21 Aug 2006
Galaxy
Cluster's Ring Hints at Cosmic Shockwave, 3 Nov 2006
Dark Matter Rap, by David Weinberg (Ohio State), lyrics
and music
(mp3)
Chap 17: Quasars and Active Galaxies
Dr.
George
Rieke's excellent AGN page for Natural Science 102,
U. Arizona
Dark
Energy Pushed Universe's Growth, CNN, 17 Nov 2006
Effect
of Dark Energy Found in last 9 billion years, BBC, 16 Nov 2006
Chap 19: In the Beginning
Large
Hadron Rap, YouTube, from CERN, posted 31 July 2008
Cosmic
Sound Waves Frozen after Recombination (=Baryon Acoustic Oscillations),
J. Gladden, U Mississippi via acoustics.org
Excellent Early
Universe Explanation with Animations (Cosmic Microwave
Background/Recombination), NCSA/U. Illinois and NHK Japanese TV,
via A. Guigui, AIFE, Buenos Aires
Chap 20: Life in the Universe
New Interest in old Miller-Urey "Spark of Life" Experiments, BBC,
16 Oct 2008
Excellent conference proceeding on Radio Leakage from Earth, Detectable
by Aliens, Woodruff T. Sullivan, III, U Washington, NASA 1981
conference, CP-2156 Life In The Universe
Aliens Need Time to Grow Brains: Run the Drake Equation Yourself,
www.astrobio.net, 2 Dec 2002
SETI status report: March 2008, BBC, 3 Mar 2008
Star
Trek
Really Did Forecast New Devices, space.com, 3 Mar 2008
Project
Phoenix (for SETI) ends after 9 Years, 800 Stars, BBC,
25 Mar 2004
Meteorite
Globules Contain Organic Molecules from Cold Molecular Cloud, BBC,
2 Dec 2006
ESA Satellite Finds an Earth Creature which can Survive in Space,
space.com, 8 Sep 2008
Radio
Telescope to Search for TV Signals from Other Stars, CNN, 8 Jan
2007
Links to Other Astronomy Courses
There are some
very good introductory astronomy courses on the WWW, whose websites
which you may find helpful.
Pogge, Rick, Ast 161
(solar system), 162
(Stars, Galaxies, Universe), Ohio State
Schombert, James, Ast 121
(solar system), 122
(Stars), 123
(Galaxies/Universe), U. Oregon
These
links are from Astronomy
307, taught in Autumn 2007, and may be useful:
Solar System in Perspective:
Carbon
Veins in
Meteorite: Evidence for Life on Mars?
SOHO
satellite catches comet crashing into Sun
Asteroids
near Jupiter (at Lagrange pts) are really comets, from measuring
density
Jupiter
Develops
Second Red Spot
Massive
Lightning Storm on Saturn, related to planet's internal heat
Uranus
has New,
Blue (from scattered light) Ring
Ice
Found on Surface of Comet
Small
Nudge Could Change Asteroid Courses Significantly
Occultation
shows Pluto's satellite Charon has no atmosphere
Pluto
may have Rings
2003
UB313 bigger than Pluto, from measuring thermal emission
research on planetary
atmospheres at UL
Dynamics of Earth:
An
excellent review of various measures of time (courtesy of Michigan
State)
An excellent
description of the equation of time
How do
GMT and UT differ?
Earth-Moon System:
Fred
Espenak's eclipse page, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Total Solar
Eclipse
(11 Aug 1999) Viewed from Space
Lunar
Maria and bulges Formed by Giant Impacts
nice
graphic on plate tectonics, convection
Subducted
crust stays cool to 200 km depth (Stanford research, 2000)
Microbes
began 3.5 Gyr ago, but multi-celled creatures only 1 Gyr ago
Japanese
ship does deepest dig ever
Wikipedia
article on aurorae
The Sun: A Model Star
Solar
Neutrino
Problem (1998) (by John Bahcall, not a Nobel
Prize-winner, oops)
Solution
to the Solar Neutrino Problem by John Bahcall, 2002
Effects of
Solar Storms
on Earth
More
Details
on Sunspots
Sunspot
Group Mean
Areas Change over the Solar Cycle (see pdf file for figures)
Next
Solar Cycle May Be More Intense
How
to Measure Sunspot Polarity and Sunspot Size Variation over the Solar
Cycle
Voyager
2 Detects Solar Termination Shock
Stars: Distances and Magnitudes:
Hipparcos
Mission 1
Hipparcos
Mission 2 and GAIA
GAIA Mission
Stars: Binary Systems:
Spectroscopic
Binary Star radial velocity simulator (requires JAVA plug-in! used by
permission, T. Herter, Cornell)
Eclipsing
Binary Star light curve simulator (requires JAVA plug-in! used by
permission, T. Herter, Cornell)
Speckle
Interferometry at
Georgia State University
Speckle
Interferometry and detecting planets, from NASA
Stars: The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Where
do
subdwarfs come from?
Table
of main sequence temperatures, peak emission wavelengths and peak
wavebands
Mnemonics
for OBAFGKM and variations
Nancy Houk's
Michigan
Spectral Catalogue Project page
Our Galaxy: A Preview
The Milky Way at
various
wavelengths (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Canadian Galactic
Plane
Survey Schematic of Galaxy (and Star Trek Quadrants!)
Ring
discovered
around Milky Way
Monty
Python's Galaxy Song Lyrics (with numbers about right!)
The Interstellar Medium and Star Birth:
3D
Map of the Local (Interstellar) Bubble
A
More
General Description of the Local (Interstellar) Bubble
Loop
I Supershell interacts with Local (Interstellar) Bubble - X-ray result
Astronomy
Picture of
the Day maps Local Bubble, nearby star formation regions (colorful!)
Local
Interstellar Cloud and Local Bubble
Virial
Theorem Made Easy
HST
View of Stellar Birth
Herbig-Haro
(HH-)47
closeup
Dust Pillars
in Trifid
Nebula
Sample
Planetary Nebula: The Spirograph (search APOD for others)
Large
Stars May Form Planets, Too (by Robert Roy Britt, Space.com, 8 Feb 2006)
How
Efficient is Star Formation?
Research
on Proto-Planetary Disks at UL
Research on
Proto-Planetary Disks at U Cincinnati
Research on
Star/Planet Formation at Indiana U
Research on
Star/Planet Formation at Vanderbilt - Stassun
Research
on
Star/Planet Formation at Vanderbilt - Weintraub
The Evolution of Stars:
Stellar
Evolution
on H-R diagram simulator (requires JAVA plug-in! used by permission, T.
Herter, Cornell)
Stellar
Structure/Evolution Explained in a more Descriptive Way