Astronomy 150 Related Links Spring 2017

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Interesting astronomy links

• Astronomy Picture of the Day

   

• Latest astronomy news from Sky and Telescope
• Hubble Space Telescope images
• Hubble Space Telescope latest results
• Astro 250 has a number of interesting links... try them

Links related to lectures..

• History of Astronomy (Lecture 2)
  • Visit Stonehenge
  • Chichen Itza, Mexico
  • Tycho Brahe
  • The Ballad of Tycho Brahe
  • The world of Galileo
  • Same to you, buddy!
  • A bit about Johannes Kepler
  • All you ever wanted to know about Isaac Newton

   

• Electromagnetic Radiation (Lecture 3)
  • The electromagnetic spectrum - from radio through X-ray
  • Infrared medical imaging
  • Infrared views of a horse ('equine thermography')
  • Thermal imaging used in the hunt for the Boston Marathon bomber
  • More views of the word through infrared eyes
  • Star colors in Orion

   

• Telescopes and Observatories (Lectures 6 and 7)
  • Mount Wilson Observatory
  • Take a tour of Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin
  • The Gemini 8-meter telescopes (including VR tours)
  • Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope
  • Arecibo Observatory
  • A primer on adaptive optics by Laird Close at the University of Arizona
  • The Hubble Space Telescope
  • The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope
  • Chandra X-ray observatory
  • The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope
  • The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

   

• The Sun (Lectures 8-9)
  • A pictorial introduction to the Sun, from NCAR
  • The Sun: a "virtual" tour
  • The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Satellite
  • A movie of sungrazing comets, coronal mass ejections and the motion of the Sun across the background sky
  • Other solar movies from SOHO
  • The Solar Dynamics Observatory - the Sun today
  • 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics: Hans Bethe
  • The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (a.k.a. SNO)
  • More than you ever wanted to know about solar neutrinos
  • 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics: Davis and Koshiba

   

• Stellar Classification (Lecture 10)
  • HST picture of Betelgeuse
  • Imaging the surface of Altair

   

• Stellar Distances and Motions (Lecture 11)
  • Stellar Distances with Hipparcos
  • 3-D images of the stars
  • The 3-D Universe

   

• Limits of the Main Sequence(Lecture 12)
  • The most massive star in the Milky Way?
  • Hubble Space Telescope images of Eta Carina, a massive star
  • A 3-D image of Eta Carina from HST
  • Upper limit to main sequence masses - via HST
  • HST image of the companion to Gl 105a, a very low mass star

   

• HST Images of star clusters (Lecture 13):
  • The Core of M15
  • White Dwarfs in M4
  • Spectacular colors in NGC 1818
  • Hubble image of red giants and M80

   

• Star Formation Images from HST (Lecture 14):
  • The Orion Nebula - general overview
  • Mosaic image of the nebula
  • Closeup of inner region of the nebula
  • Images of protostellar disks
  • Edge-on view of protoplanetary disk
  • Star birth and "eggs" in M16
  • The disk surrounding the main sequence star Beta Pictoris
  • Movies (for real!) of forming stars
  • Movies of protostellar jets, from HST
  • Spitzer image of star formation via supernova trigger
  • The movie of the flythrough of the Orion Nebula.
  • The disk and planets around Fomalhaut

   

• Stellar Old Age (Lecture 15)
  • Planetary Nebulae (as viewed by HST):
    • The Helix Nebula from the ground
    • The Helix Nebula with HST
    • Closeup view of the knots
    • NGC 7027
    • NGC 6543: The Cat's Eye Nebula
    • MyCn18: The Hourglass Nebula
    • NGC 2346: A PN from a binary system
    • RXJ 2117: the largest planetary nebula in the Milky Way
  • On the crystallized white dwarf BPM37093 - London Times
  • Followup press coverage on the Diamond Star
  • More on ISU's role

   

• Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes (Lectures 16 and 17)
  • Supernova 1987a 30 years later
  • Inside the Crab
  • An isolated neutron star?!
  • Indeed - proof that it is!
  • Pulsar Sounds!
  • Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars

   

• The ISM and Milky Way (Lecture 18):
  • A Flyby of the Milky Way
  • Virtual Reality visualizations of the Milky Way
  • COBE Infrared images of the Milky Way Galaxy
  • The Mutliwavelength Milky Way

   

• Galaxies - Distances (Lectures 19/21):
  • HST- Cepheids in M100
  • An online activity - find Cepheids and measure galaxy distances yourself!
  • HST and the Cosmic Distance Scale
  • The HST Key Project on the Extragalactic distance scale

   

• Quasars and Active Galaxies(Lectures 22 and 23)
  • Evidence for a black hole in the center of the active galaxy M87
  • The core of NGC4261 - an accreting black hole?
  • Quasars and their "host" galaxies
  • Do most galaxies have massive black holes?

   

• Galaxy Clusters and Superclusters (Lecture 23)
  • X-ray gas in galaxy clusters
  • The Coma cluster of galaxies, with HST
  • A cluster of galaxies acting as a gravitational "lens"
  • Another galaxy cluster, with lensed blue background galaxies
  • The 2dF Galaxy Survey
  • The Las Campanas Redshift Survey: the Frothy Universe
  • The Bullet Cluster
  • Dark matter in a galaxy cluster with HST and Chandra

   

• Cosmology (Lectures 24 - 26)
  • The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) home page
  • COBE Maps of the background radiation
  • WMAP Maps (at much higher resolution than COBE)
  • And even higher resolution - an independent effort by the Europeans with the Planck satellite.
  • Cosmology links from Cosmos in a Computer
    • The Big Bang
    • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
    • The Epoch of Recombination
    • The Origin of Structure
    • Open, Closed, or Flat?
  • the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
  • Zoomable Ultra Deep Field
  • A skywalk through the UDF

   

• Life in the Universe (Lectures 27-28)
  • The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
  • Extrasolar Planet Search
  • The Kepler Mission - Searching for habitable planets
  • The SETI Institute, home of Project Phoenix