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Introductory Astronomy: The Milky Way Galaxy
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This website provides a tutorial for students about the bulge, disk, and halo components of the Milky Way. It also contains information about the size and the formation of our…
http://www.astro.umd.edu/resources/introastro/mw.html
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Shapley's Globular Clusters
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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…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11211&DocID=22...
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Differential Galactic Rotation
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The EJS Differential Galactic Rotation Model illustrates the model of galactic rotation proposed by Jan Oort in 1927. In Oort's model most of the mass of the galaxy is concentrated…
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Herschel's Star Gages
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The EJS Herschel's Star Gages Model illustrates William Herschel's methods of "star gages" by which he attempted to map out the shape of our galaxy in 1785. Herschel's star gages…
https://www.compadre.org/portal/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=11214&DocID=22...
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The Interstellar Medium
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Experimental Space Plasma Group
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This site offers information about the interstellar medium. It discusses what the interstellar medium is, how it has developed, how astronomers know what they know, and interactions…
http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/
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General Education Astronomy Source
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This website provides an extensive set of resources for both traditional and distance-learning undergraduate introductory astronomy courses. These materials cover topics from…
http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/geas/oview/geas.shtml
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Identifying A Baseline for Teachers’ Astronomy Content Knowledge
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E. Brunsell and J. Marcks, Astron. Educ. Rev.,
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A teacher’s scientific understanding has a dramatic impact on students’ ability to learn science. This article describes the results of administering the Astronomy Diagnostic Test…
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Space Weather Center: Living With a Star
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This interactive page developed by the Space Science Institute is a set of tutorials on the Sun's place in space, structure of the Sun, the solar cycle and solar wind phenomena, and…
http://www.spaceweathercenter.org/living_with_a_star/01/01.html
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ASPIRE: Star Life Cycle
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This website provides a tutorial on the evolution of stars. It begins with proto-stars, then provides information about main-sequence stars, hydrostatic equilibrium, helium burning,…
http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/
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Science, Optics & You: Secret Worlds - The Universe Within
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A series of "Powers of Ten" is sequentially displayed, beginning with a square covering 10 23 m on a side and progressing through 10 -16 m on a side. The scale and description of…
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
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