Some of my favorite
astronomy-related links (in no particular order)...
This page last updated: Friday
12/09/2011 at 10:01 AM
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Some of my favorite
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Frontiers of Astronomy - 2011 through 2012 season |
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| Oct 20, 2011 8:00pm | Sheila Kannappan, Assistant Professor, Astrophysics, University of North Carolina | Cosmic Hide and Seek: Tracking Missing and Invisible Matter in the Universe |
| Nov 17, 2011 8:00pm | David Weinberg, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, The Ohio State University | Sculpting the Universe |
| Dec 8, 2011 8:00pm | Chris Mihos, Chair, Department of Astronomy, Case Western Reserve University | The Violent Lives of Cluster Galaxies |
| Mar 8, 2012 8:00pm | Marc Pinsonneault, Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University | Listening to the Inner Lives of Stars |
| Apr 12, 2012 8:00pm | Alan McConnachie, Research Associate, Astrophysics, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada | The Archaeology of Galaxies: Unearthing Fossils of Formation |
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Frontiers of Astronomy - lectures that occurred in the 2008 through 2011 seasons |
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Oct 16, 2008 8:00pm |
Eric Herbst (Ohio State University) |
Chemistry Meets Astronomy: The Role of Molecules in Understanding Stellar and Planetary Formation |
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Nov 13, 2008 8:00pm |
Alan
Marscher (Boston University) |
Jets from Black Holes in Quasars |
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Dec 18, 2008 8:00pm |
Sally Oey (University of Michigan) |
Powering the Universe with Massive Stars |
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Mar 12, 2009 8:00pm |
Carlos Frenk (University of Durham) |
The Great Cosmic Gamble: Making Galaxies from Nothing |
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Apr 16, 2009 8:00pm |
Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute) |
Is God a Mathematician? |
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Oct 15, 2009 8:00pm |
Neta Bahcall (Princeton University) |
The Dark Side of the Universe |
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Nov 12, 2009 8:00pm |
Robin Ciardullo (Penn State University) |
Planetary Nebulae and the Galactic Merry-Go-Round |
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Dec 10, 2009 8:00pm |
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria) |
A Cosmological Revolution -- Notes from the Field |
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Mar 18, 2010 8:00pm |
Avi Loeb (Harvard University) |
The Past and Future of the Astrophysical Universe |
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Apr 15, 2010 8:00pm |
Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie Observatories) |
The Great Escape: Hypervelocity Stars |
| Oct 14, 2010 - 8:00pm | Dr. William D. Cochran, University of Texas at Austin | Searching for Other Earths: Results from the Kepler Mission |
| Nov 18, 2010 - 8:00pm |
Dr. Charles Lada, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
The Search for Stellar Origins from Antiquity to the 21st Century |
| Dec 9, 2010 - 8:00pm |
Dr. Stacy S. McGaugh, University of Maryland |
The Driving Role of Gravity in Cosmology |
| Mar 10, 2011 - 8:00pm | Dr. Elizabeth J. (Betsy) Barton, University of California, Irvine | The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies and the End of the Cosmic Dark Ages |
| Apr 14, 2011 - 8:00pm |
Dr. Nicholas B. Suntzeff, Texas A&M University |
The Creeping Murmur and the Growing Darkness in the Universe |
Build a Scale Model Solar System
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Make a scale model of the Solar System and learn the REAL definition of
"space."
Bruce Taylor's images (fellow Fishcreek attendee)
Gift
ideas?
- looking for a telescope for the beginning astronomer? I recommend
this,
this or
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How to
pronounce constellation names
The constellations by season
- includes pronunciation recordings
Looking skyward during the day? Wild Birds Unlimited
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