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From Stargazers to Starships: Spaceflight
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D. Stern
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Visit this site to learn about rockets and spaceflight. If you're willing to do some reading, you can find out about the history of rocketry and the space race, uses of unmanned…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Spaceflt1.htm
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Make Your Own Telescope
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Publisher: Exploratorium
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This site from the Exploratorium contains instructions on building a telescope with everyday materials. Reading glasses and a magnifying glass are used to create this telescope where…
https://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/space/activity.html
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Another dramatic climb toward fusion conditions for Sandia Z accelerator
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This news article, from Sandia National Laboratories, presents advances made on the Sandia Z- pinch machine, which is an intense X-ray source and a possible candidate for fusion…
https://www.sandia.gov/media/z290.htm
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Aerogel: Catching Comet Dust
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This site from NASA provides information about aerogel, the material used by the Stardust probe to trap particles from the Comet Wild 2. You can learn about the collection…
https://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/tech/aerogel.html
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Schlieren Photography Principles
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A. Davidhazy
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This site from the Rochester Institute of Technology provides a discussion of methods used in schlieren photography, a technique to image variations in density. The site contains an…
https://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-schlieren.html
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Superhuman Vision - Seeing with Terahertz
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Publisher: The Royal Society
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See this site for an introduction to terahertz waves and the remarkable images they can make. You'll find out how the reflection and absorption of these electromagnetic waves can…
https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2006/summer-science...
