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Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures 
  
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Editor: A. Fraknoi; Publishers: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, NASA Ames Research Center, and Foothill College
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This series of video lectures covers a wide range of current topics in astronomy and astrophysics given by leading scientists in their fields. These are recorded from regular…
https://www.youtube.com/user/SVAstronomyLectures
A Question of Scale: Quarks to Quasars 
  
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B. Bryson
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A cosmic journey in 42 steps of powers of ten starting with quarks (10^-14 meters) and ending with 'near the limit of our knowledge' (10^25 meters).
http://www.wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
Peer Reviewed Item Contemporary Laboratory Experiences in Astronomy 
  
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L. Marschall, G. Snyder, P. Cooper, M. Hayden, and R. Good
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Project CLEA develops laboratory exercises that illustrate modern astronomical techniques using a virtual observatory, digital data and color images. Each CLEA laboratory exercise…
http://public.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/CLEAhome.html
Double Vision: How we learned the distance to the stars 
  
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This tutorial describes how the distance to the stars was determined, and embeds a set of activities highlighting astrometry. It begins with the first attempt made by Aristarchus and…
http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/parallax.html
Two Body Orbits Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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W. Christian
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The Two Body Orbits model for teachers shows the motion of two objects (binary star or moon-planet system) interacting via Newton's law of universal gravitation. It is designed to…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12222&DocID...
Chasing Venus 
  
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
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This website tells the story of astronomers in pursuit of understanding and observing transits of Venus from 1631 to present day. Much of the content comes from rare books and…
https://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/chasing-venus/
Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion: An Overview for Science Teachers 
  
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This web page provides the lecture notes for an overview of Kepler's laws. It includes historical notes and related classroom resources such as applications, problems, and teacher's…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Kep3laws.htm
The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project: Online Labs for Introductory Level Astronomy 
  
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K. Lee
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The Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project site provides high quality applets simulating important astrophysical phenomena such as eclipsing binaries, stellar evolution on the H-R…
http://astro.unl.edu/naap/
From Stargazers to Starships: Spaceflight 
  
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This is an historical overview of spaceflight, stressing the technology of rockets, satellites and orbits, and its use in unmanned missions. It contains sections on rocket motion,…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Spaceflt1.htm
The Calendar 
  
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These web pages provide a short overview of the common (Gregorian) calendar and some less-common ones--Julian, Jewish (leap months), Moslem, Persian (New Year on the spring equinox),…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Scalend.htm
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