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This award-winning website presents a comprehensive suite of pages that tell the stories of stars and their constellations. Stars are classified by constellation, spectra, luminosity, and name.  Users can easily click on links to explore the brightest luminaries in the sky, take a tour of the Milky Way, open a guide to celestial measurement, view classical constellation maps, link to the "Skylights" weekly astronomical images, and more.  This resource provides highly organized curriculum support to science teachers seeking an interactive way to teach astronomy in the secondary classroom.
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Astronomy
- Fundamentals
= Spectra
- Stars
Optics
- Color
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Informal Education
- Upper Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Curriculum support
= Tutorial
- Reference Material
- Dataset
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© 1998 James B. Kaler
Keywords:
Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, auroras, celestial scale, constellation, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic spectrum, image set, luminosity, planets, radioactive, spectral class, spectrum, tutorial
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Metadata instance created September 25, 2008 by Caroline Hall
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J. Kaler, (1998), WWW Document, (http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sow.html).
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J. Kaler, Portrait of Stars and Their Constellations (1998), <http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sow.html>.
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Kaler, J. (2008, September 18). Portrait of Stars and Their Constellations. Retrieved May 3, 2024, from http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sow.html
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Kaler, James. Portrait of Stars and Their Constellations. September 18, 2008. http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sow.html (accessed 3 May 2024).
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Kaler, James. Portrait of Stars and Their Constellations. 1998. 18 Sep. 2008. 3 May 2024 <http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sow.html>.
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