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Astronomical Parallax 2D  [ Computer Program ]
  
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T. Timberlake
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The Astronomical Parallax 2D Model illustrates the phenomenon of parallax in astronomy. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to the background that is caused…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11201&DocID=22...
Astronomical Parallax 3D  [ Computer Program ]
  
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This Astronomical Parallax 3D Model illustrates the phenomenon of annual stellar parallax in astronomy. Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object relative to the background…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11202&DocID=22...
Parallactic Proper Motion  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The EJS Parallactic Proper Motion Model illustrates the phenomenon known as parallactic proper motion. Proper motion refers to the progressive (non-oscillatory) apparent motion of a…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11209&DocID=22...
Herschel's Star Gages  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The EJS Herschel's Star Gages Model illustrates William Herschel's methods of "star gages" by which he attempted to map out the shape of our galaxy in 1785. Herschel's star gages…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11214&DocID=22...
Exoplanet Detection: Radial Velocity Method  [ Computer Program ]
  
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M. Belloni
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The Exoplanet Detection: The Radial Velocity Method model simulates the detection of exoplanets by using the radial velocity method and the Doppler effect. In this simulation the…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10155&DocID=17...
The Cosmic Distance Scale 
  
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M. Masetti; Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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This website gives an impression of the size of our Universe, starting with the Earth and increasing scale until it reaches the scale of the visible universe. The user can view and…
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/
3C273 Activity: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet... 
  
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This activity from Chandra Education shows how to calculate the velocity of the energetic jet coming from quasar 3C 273. The page includes full solutions and explanations of the…
http://xray1.physics.rutgers.edu/3c273/bullet.html
A Question of Scale: Quarks to Quasars 
  
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This site consists of a series of pages, each depicting and describing an object(s) on a different order of magnitude. There are 42 pages of this in all, for 42 powers of ten,…
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
Perspectives on astronomy: probing Norwegian pre-service teachers and middle school students  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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C. Lindstrøm, V. Rajpaul, M. Brendehaug, and M. Engel
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C. Lindstrøm, V. Rajpaul, M. Brendehaug, and M. Engel, PERC 2015 Proceedings, 195-198.
We report on ongoing work to gain insight into the astronomy knowledge and perspectives of pre-service teachers and middle school students in Norway. We carefully adapted and…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13869&DocID=42...
Doppler Effect 
  
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This site offers information on the classical doppler effect, the relativistic doppler effect, aberration, and the transverse doppler effect. It also discusses wave fronts,…
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/phys/doppler.htm
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