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Stellar Aberration 2D
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The Stellar Aberration 2D Model illustrates the phenomenon known as the aberration of starlight, first reported by James Bradley in 1729. Aberration occurs because light has a finite…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11205&DocID=22...
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Stellar Aberration 3D
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The EJS Stellar Aberration 3D Model illustrates the phenomenon known as the aberration of starlight, first reported by James Bradley in 1729. Aberration occurs because light has a…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11206&DocID=22...
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Introductory Astronomy: Stellar Evolution
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K. Miller and S. Miller
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This site first introduces stellar evolution by exploring hydrostatic balance, radiation pressure, and gravity. The next three sections discuss mass criteria, lifetime, and evolution…
http://www.astro.umd.edu/resources/introastro/evolution.html
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Shapley's Globular Clusters
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The EJS Shapley's Globular Clusters Model shows the distribution of globular clusters around the plane of the Milky Way as determined by Harlow Shapley in 1918. The Space View frame…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11211&DocID=22...
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Stellar Evolution
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This Chandra X-Ray Observatory page links to several activities and articles on stellar evolution. It includes an interactive Flash activity featuring simulations of different-mass…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/
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Death Star: A Bad Day In the Milky Way
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This PBS article describes gamma-ray bursts and how they were discovered. It also explains what would happen to the Earth should a gamma-ray burst strike it.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/gamma/milkyway.html
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WMAP's Universe: The Life and Death of Stars
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Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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This web page describes the life cycle of stars. It gives a brief explanation of stellar evolution on the main sequence and includes links to more information about four final…
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/rel_stars.html
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Spectra
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J. Kaler
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Spectra is a very informative website about how astronomers use spectra to understand what stars are made of, their structures, and their evolution. The page begins with an…
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/spectra.html
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Eclipsing Binary Stars
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Eclipsing Binary Stars model simulates the detection of eclipsing binary stars. In this method, the light curve from the combination of the two stars, and how it changes over time…
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Active Galaxies Educator Guide
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Sonoma State University
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This guide accompanies an educational wall-sheet that uses Active Galaxies as an engagement to teach selected topics in physical science and mathematics. Active galaxies have…
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/observatories/learning/fermi/classroom/agn...
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