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This article from Discover magazine overviews twenty ways the planet could experience mass extinction or worse. Examples include asteroid impact, alien invasion, and gamma-ray bursts.
  
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This press release from the Gemini Observatory covers the discovery of a supernova using laser adaptive optics. Laser guide adaptive optics help eliminate atmospheric noise from…
  
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V. Dhillon
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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…
Stellar Aberration 2D  [ Computer Program ]
  
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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…
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…
  
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K. Miller and S. Miller
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This site first introduces stellar evolution by exploring hydrostatic balance, radiation pressure, and gravity. The next three sections discuss mass criteria, lifetime, and evolution…
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…
  
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This NewScientist article covers the simulation research of two University of Colorado physicists on what an unfortunate person falling into a black hole would see. The article…
  
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J. Moldenhauer, K. Stone, Z. Shuler, and L. Engelhardt
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Supernovae Type Ia are used as standard candles to directly probe the expansion rate of the universe. The discovery of the cosmic acceleration in 1998 by two independent teams was…
Fitting Cosmological Data Compilation DEDGP  [ Computer Program ]
  
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J. Moldenhauer, K. Stone, Z. Shuler, and L. Engelhardt
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The 1998 discovery of the cosmic acceleration with supernovae was recently awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. More observations continue to support this accelerated expansion…
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