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Role-Playing and Problem-Based Exercises for Teaching Undergraduate Astronomy 
  
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P. Francis
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This website provides role-playing and problem-based exercises for introductory and advanced astronomy students. Small groups and group interactions are used to stimulate discussion…
https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~pfrancis/roleplay.html
A One Credit Hour Eclipse Course for 2024: Description and Offer to the Community 
  
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This github repository provides materials for a turn-key, general-education level, interdisciplinary eclipse course. It is designed to help prepare for the Apr 8, 2024 total…
https://github.com/gwilliger/Eclipsecourse_2024
Cosmic Rays 
  
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This series of web pages gives an elementary discussion of cosmic rays, followed by sections on high energy particles in the universe and high-energy particles from the Sun. It…
http://www.phy6.org/Education/wcosray.html
Far-out Pathways to Space: Great Guns? 
  
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This is a set of six web pages describing four unconventional methods of accelerating spacecraft. These are using cannons, nuclear power, solar sails and ion rockets. Gravity-assist…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/SSHARP.htm
HubbleSite: News Release Archive 
  
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This is a collection of all publicly released pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. Accompanying each photograph is the official news release, an introduction to the object, fast…
https://hubblesite.org/news/news-releases
James Webb Space Telescope 
  
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The James Webb Space Telescope is set to be NASA’s infrared flagship observatory beginning in the summer of 2022. With expected resolution from 0.6 to 28.8 micron, it will enable…
https://webbtelescope.org/
NASA: Swift Mission 
  
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Swift is the first space observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray bursts and their afterglow in the gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/swift/main
HubbleSite: Hubble's exciting universe 
  
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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…
https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/hubble-30th-anniversary
Hubblesite NewsCenter 
  
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Hubblesite NewsCenter is the complete collection of every Hubble Space Telescope news release and its supporting materials, along with tools and resources designed to further your…
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
The X-ray Astronomy Field Guide 
  
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This website provides an overview of X-ray Astronomy and X-ray sources: from black holes to galaxy clusters. It covers the history of X-ray astronomy, what X-rays are, how they are…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/field_guide.html
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