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Space.com 
  
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Space.com is an online forum for discussion of space, science and technological innovation. It has links to online magazines like Live Science, Space News, and Ad Astra, SETI science…
https://www.space.com/
The Astronomy Corner 
  
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This site is a collection of astronomy articles and notes written by Brian Tung currently at ISI, U. SOuthern California. The Astronomy Corner includes astronomical games, reference…
http://www.astronomycorner.net/
IRSA - Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) 
  
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The Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC website provides an image gallery of solar system objects, Jupiter's moons, H II regions, star formation regions, and reflection nebulae, open…
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/2MASS/docs/
The Star Splitters: The High Energy Astronomy Observatories 
  
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Wallace Tucker's The Star Splitters is an online book about the history of NASA's High Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) Program, which provided the first x-ray focusing telescopes…
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-466/sp466.htm
Fossil Stars: White Dwarfs 
  
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This site discusses white dwarfs: their history, their structure and evolution, how they can be detected, and how they help to determine the age of the universe.
https://vc.airvectors.net/tastgal_05.html
The Physics Teacher
Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Sky Time Lesson 
  
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C. Morrow, Phys. Teach., 38 (4), 252-253 (2000).
Everyday association with time in our modern age involves watches, clocks, and calendars rather than the astronomical motions that were the original bases for timekeeping. However,…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.880520
Low Density Inflationary Universes 
  
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This site discusses the problems that a low density universe causes for the inflation theory. It also discusses the open vs closed universe theories and what is meant by critical…
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/origins/inflation_one.php
Beyond the Big Bang 
  
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This paper introduces a theory known as inflation, a modification of the standard "big bang" model of the history of the universe. In an earlier paper, called "The Expanding…
http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/inflation.html
The Expanding Universe 
  
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An online paper by Gary Felder on the standard expanding universe. The major points cover the possibility of an infinite or finite universe, the history of our universe and how it…
http://www.felderbooks.com/papers/cosmo.html
The Lives of Binary Stars 
  
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This site offers information about the history of binary stars, how they form, and their evolution. There are also images and animations provided throughout this tutorial to better…
http://www.vikdhillon.staff.shef.ac.uk/seminars/lives_of_binary_stars/ti...
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