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CPEP: Plasma Physics & Fusion 
  
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Editor: R. Heeter; Publisher: Contemporary Physics Education Project
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This site offers extensive information about nuclear fusion and the creation of energy by fusion. The main topics include: energy sources and conversion, how fusion reactions work,…
https://www.cpepphysics.org/plasma-physics-fusion/
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...
XMM-Newton: Supernovae Educator Guide 
  
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The Supernova Educator's Guide was developed by the XMM-Newton and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) E/PO programs. It features three curriculum enhancement activities…
https://xmm.sonoma.edu/edu/supernova/snguide5.pdf
Eclipsing Binary Stars  [ Computer Program ]
  
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M. Belloni
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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…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10270&DocID...
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...
Stellar Aberration 2D  [ Computer Program ]
  
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T. Timberlake
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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/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11205&DocID...
Stellar Aberration 3D  [ Computer Program ]
  
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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/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11206&DocID...
Shapley's Globular Clusters  [ Computer Program ]
  
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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/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11211&DocID...
Spectra 
  
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A comprehensive glossary of stellar spectroscopy. Includes absorption lines, atoms and the chemical element, chemical classes of stars, classifying stars, distances from spectra,…
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/spectra.html
Astronomy 122: Birth and Death of Stars 
  
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This is a traditional course website for teaching the birth and death of stars in one semester to introductory astronomy non-science major’s. It contains a syllabus, lectures, links…
https://pages.uoregon.edu/jschombe/ast122/
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