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This website provides an extensive set of resources for both traditional and distance-learning undergraduate introductory astronomy courses. These materials cover topics from…
  
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N. Strobel
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This chapter covers the characteristics of other normal galaxies, active galaxies, and finding distances to other galaxies, including the distance-scale ladder. It also includes…
  
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This web site presents Hubble's fascinating discoveries from 1990-2020 through pictures, videos, and stories that describe the universe's past, present, and future. Articles describe…
  
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J. Köppen
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This site provides a collection of Java applets written for teaching, creating exercises, allowing self-study and for use as small research tools. They aim to permit an interactive…
  
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M. Richmond
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This web site contains lecture notes for an introductory course on galaxies and cosmology. It is meant for a non-science audience with a limited background in trig and algebra.
  
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Astronomy and Cosmology: The Description, Origin, and Development of the Universe is a section of a larger tutorial describing the uses of remote sensing. The author disscusses many…
Galaxy Rotation with Dark Matter Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Galaxy Rotation with Dark Mater model shows that the actual rotation of spiral galaxies cannot be accounted for by visible matter alone. Newtonian dynamics allows us to compute…
Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies 3D Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Orbiting and Colliding Galaxies 3D Model is a three-dimensional extension of the Alar and Juri Toomres' 1972 supercomputer model of colliding galaxies. This model assumes that…
  
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This is a course website for teaching galaxies and the expanding universe in one semester to introductory astronomy non-science majors. It contains a syllabus, lectures, links to…
Spiral Nebula Rotation  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The EJS Spiral Nebula Rotation model illustrates a simplified version of Adrian van Maanen's method for measuring the rotations (or internal motions) of spiral nebulae. Van Maanen…
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