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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/
Did an Impact Trigger the Permian-Triassic Extinction? 
  
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D. Morrison
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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...
Digitized Sky Survey 
  
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Publisher: Operations and Data Management Division | STScI
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This is a set of all-sky photograph surveys from the ground based telescopes Palomar and UK Schmidt in several colors. Images from any portion of the sky can be acquired either in…
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/
Ad Astra Magazine 
  
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Publisher: National Space Society
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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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Editor: D. Gutiérrez
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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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N. Gehrels; Publisher: Goddard Space Flight Center
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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
American Journal of Physics
Follow-up study of a PSI astronomy course 
  
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R. Bieniek and M. Zeilik, Am. J. Phys., 44 (7), 695-696 (1976).
Summarizes the results of a student opinion questionnaire that was distributed to students of a PSI (Personalized System of Instruction) astronomy course for seven consecutive…
https://doi.org/10.1119/1.10335
Studies in Educational Evaluation
A study of change in students' conceptual frameworks in astronomy 
  
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M. Finegold and D. Pundak, Stud. Educ. Eval., 17 (1), 151-166 (1991).
School students' conceptual frameworks in astronomy and students' levels of knowledge and conceptualization were examined for 130 students in grades 2 through 12. Knowledge and…
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-491X(05)80115-4
A revision of a traditional astronomy course through active learning  [ Conference Proceedings ]
  
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R. Zich, A. Sammons, and R. Rosenblatt
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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...
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