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COURSE MATERIALS
ASTR 110 Spring 2013
Course handouts	Assignment sheets
First Day Handout	The night sky
Syllabus	Matter
Symposium Instructions	Light
Observing log instructions	Cosmology I
Observing log questions	Stars part 1
Exam 1 Review Sheet	Stars part 2 and Black holes
Exam 2 Review Sheet	Galaxies
	The solar system
	Cosmology II
	Life in the Universe

USEFUL INTERNET RESOURCES
(Click on any link to view the web page )

General information and background
General astronomy and good images	Useful tools and miscellaneous things
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)	Tutorial on scientific notation
NASA Imagine the Universe! (home page)	The fundamental forces
Hubble Space Telescope Picture Album
NASA's Image Exchange

Space, time, and relativity	The nature of light
NASA Imagine the Universe! I	NASA Imagine the Universe! I
NASA Imagine the Universe! II	NASA Imagine the Universe! II
What causes gravity?	NASA Imagine the Universe! III
A glimpse of the future, from Kip Thorne	E = hf (the "Planck equation")
Elementary Einstein

Cosmology
The Big Bang and the origin of the Universe	Dark matter
The Universe: cosmology	NASA Imagine the Universe! I
NASA Imagine the Universe!	NASA Imagine the Universe! II
Inflation for Beginners

Hubble's law & the Hubble 'constant'	Dark energy
NASA Imagine the Universe!	NASA Imagine the Universe! I
Wikipedia	NASA Imagine the Universe! II

The future of the Universe
NASA Imagine the Universe! I
NASA Imagine the Universe! II
NASA "Universe 101"
NOVA History of the Universe

Stars & stellar remnants
Stars: general information	Stars: The life & death of a star
Royal Greenwich Observatory	Royal Greenwich Observatory I
STARS	STARS
NASA Imagine the Universe!	NASA Imagine the Universe!
	Royal Greenwich Observatory II
HR Diagrams	NASA Imagine the Universe! (Supernovae)
UCSD
Cornell	White dwarfs & novae
Interactive tutorial	Royal Greenwich Observatory
Stellar evoluation simulator	STARS

Neutron stars & pulsars	Black holes
NASA Imagine the Universe!	NASA Imagine the Universe! I
STARS	NASA Imagine the Universe! II
Royal Greenwich Observatory	Royal Greenwich Observatory
	Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxies
Galaxies other than our own	Our Milky Way galaxy
Hubble Space Telescope	SEDS
Royal Greenwich Observatory	UCSD Center for Astrophysics
NASA Imagine the Universe! I	The Universe within 50,000 light-years
NASA Imagine the Universe! II	NASA Imagine the Universe!
NASA Imagine the Universe! III

The solar system & other planetary systems
The solar system	Other planetary systems (extrasolar planets)
NASA/JPL planet overview	The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Enchanted learning	NASA's Kepler telescope
Imagine the Universe! I	PlanetQuest I: JPL
Imagine the Universe! II	PlanetQuest II: Find your own planet!
Royal Greenwich Observatory

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