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LAMBDA - Educational Resources 
  
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Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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Student projects designed as supplements to an undergraduate cosmology course are available on the LAMBDA website (Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis). One project…
https://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/
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/
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/
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Modeling the History of Astronomy: Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho 
  
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T. Timberlake, Astron. Educ. Rev., 12 (1), 010201 (2013).
This paper describes a series of activities in which students investigate and use the models of planetary motion introduced by the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in the 2nd…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=12579&DocID...
A revision of a traditional astronomy course through active learning  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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R. Zich, A. Sammons, and R. Rosenblatt, PERC 2019 Proceedings, 687-692.
We report on the conversion of a general education sophomore-level astronomy course from traditional lecture-based methods to a more active-learning course. The course was reworked…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=15228&DocID...
Did an Impact Trigger the Permian-Triassic Extinction? 
  
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NASA Astrobiology Institute news story on new evidence of a 251-million year-old impact crater off the western coast of Australia that may have caused the "Great Dying", the…
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/did-an-impact-trigger-the-permian-tri...
Ad Astra Magazine 
  
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Ad Astra ("To the Stars") is the award-winning magazine of the National Space Society. It features space exploration news and full-color photography. It is published quarterly and…
https://space.nss.org/ad-astra-the-magazine-of-the-national-space-societ...
Libraries of Stellar Spectra 
  
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This is a reference list of libraries of stellar spectra for late-type, early-type stars and the sun, as well as synthetic spectra, spectrophotometric atlases, Morgan-Keenan stellar…
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http://webs.ucm.es/info/Astrof/invest/actividad/spectra.html
ESA: SMART-1 
  
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This web page provides milestones of the European Space Agencies first space probe to the moon. The ESA's ion driven SMART-1 probe entered lunar orbit on 2004 Nov 16 after an 80…
https://sci.esa.int/web/smart-1/
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
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