Wednesday and Friday, Sepember 8 and 10
Where are we?
presentation
Rotating
Sky Explorer used in class to visualize how stars move through the
sky in a 24 hour period.
Monday Sepember 13
Three lecture
tutorial questions
Seasons simulator
Motion
of the Sun Sky explorer. We won't use this in class, but you may
find it helpful to play with on your own.
Monday Sepember 20
Eclipses
Retrograde
motion of Jupiter and Saturn
Wednesday Sepember 22
Retrograde
motion in a Ptolemaic and Copernican system.
Friday Sepember 24
Phases of Venus
Monday Sepember 27
Hunt
for Alien Earths - Nova Science Now
Monday October 4
Exoplanet plotting tool
Wednesday October 6
Extreomphiles on Earth
Tardigrades on
Earth
Friday October 8
The Drake
Equation
Mike Brown on the
discovery of Pluto
Neil
deGrasse Tyson on Pluto
Monday October 25
A few slides about
measuring the presence of elements in stars with spectra.
Dopper
shift and light
NIST
testing relativity with atomic clocks
Hubble
Gotchu
Wednesday November 3
Stellar Sizes movie
CMD
movie
HR diagram of the brightest
and closest stars
Friday November 5
Watched chapters 2 and 3 of the Secrets of the Sun eposide of The
Universe series from the History Channel.
Friday November 12
Neutrino experiments
IceCube
experiement construction
Wednesday November 17
We watched Life and Deathe of a Star episode of The Universe, Season
1, Disc 3
Friday November 19 and Monday November 22
The Planetary
Nebula Show
Some cool supernova remnants.
Nova podcast about Supernova Event Network.
Neil DeGrasse
Tyson on death by black hole.
Monday November 29
Galaxies
Hubble ultra deep field 3D animation
Wednesday December 1
Image and rotation curve of M33
Friday December 10
Neil deGrasse Tyson on the manned space program
Stephen
Colbert's view of our place in the universe
Carl Sagan's view of our place in the universe