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published by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The main objective of this project is to introduce the student to modern cosmology. The first part of the website explains the most recent perceptions of the universe and how it is expanding. To prove it, the student is asked to follow Edwin Hubble's steps, by measuring magnitudes and redshifts of galaxies, plotting them in a Hubble Diagram and arrive at the same conclusion he did: the universe is in fact expading, and there doesn't seem to be a center since all galaxies appear to be distributed uniformly. The final part of the project explains the concept of the Big Bang and a technique to calculate absolute distances, using redshifts and the Hubble constant, derived from the expansion of the Universe.
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Astronomy
- Cosmology
= Expansion of the Universe
- Lower Undergraduate
- High School
- Instructional Material
= Tutorial
- Reference Material
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Keywords:
big bang, expansion of the universe, hubble diagram, sdss
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Metadata instance created February 19, 2007 by Enrique Suarez
Record Updated:
May 9, 2009 by Lyle Barbato
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February 19, 2007
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AIP Format
(Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Seattle), WWW Document, (http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/).
AJP/PRST-PER
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe (Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Seattle), <http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/>.
APA Format
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe. (2007, February 19). Retrieved December 6, 2024, from Sloan Digital Sky Survey: http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/
Chicago Format
Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe. Seattle: Sloan Digital Sky Survey, February 19, 2007. http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/ (accessed 6 December 2024).
MLA Format
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe. Seattle: Sloan Digital Sky Survey. 19 Feb. 2007. 6 Dec. 2024 <http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/basic/universe/>.
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@misc{ Title = {Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Universe}, Publisher = {Sloan Digital Sky Survey}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {6 December 2024}, Month = {February 19, 2007}, Year = {} }
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