Astronomy+EPO+Links

List of links to great astronomy education and public outreach (EPO) activities:


 * Link - General repository for astronomy resources
 * Java Applets for teaching AstroPhysics - applets on range of topics in astrophsics
 * Gravitational Orbit simulators
 * Gravity and Orbits (PhET)
 * My Solar System (PhET)
 * What's more likely? To win the lottery or that life exists on other planets?
 * NASA EPO lesson plan
 * Cross-disc: Math, astronomy, astrobiology
 * Link
 * How the elements formed. Fusion and beyond.
 * Youtube 5 minute video
 * Neil Degrasse Tyson Nova
 * Cross-disc: Chemistry, astronomy, astrobiology
 * Link
 * Article about where all the elements came from (NASA)
 * Accessible for students!
 * We are all Star Stuff article
 * NASA's Imagine the Universe teaching unit - X-ray Spectroscopy and the Chemistry of Supernova Remnants
 * Cross-disc: Chemistry, astronomy
 * Link to NASA page
 * How do stars of different masses evolve differently? What do they leave behind?
 * Simulations made by CIERA.
 * Simulations showing the evolutionary processes of various stars, including:
 * 1 solar mass stars
 * 10 solar mass stars
 * 20 solar mass stars
 * Neutron star & white dwarf binary systems
 * Link
 * Modeling gravitational waves.
 * Mathematica demonstration project by Leo Stein.
 * Simulation of a gravitational wave using post-Newtonian expansion.
 * Link
 * Galaxy Crash: Java applet simulating galaxy mergers, can tweak parameters, make predictions, etc.
 * Link
 * lesson idea: Students try to re-create configurations of interacting galaxies that have been imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope, using Galaxy Crash simulator
 * video - images of actual interacting galaxies compared to simulation: video
 * Hubble images of 59 interacting galaxies: images
 * Earth, Moon, and Sun MUSE modeling curricular materials
 * Modeling the formation of our moon: Work by Robin Canup
 * Interactive applet for learning about transit method for detecting planets, from Kepler/NASA: Kepler Exoplanet Transit Hunt
 * Help scientists find actual planets: [|Planet Hunters]
 * @http://concord.org/activities/there-life-space
 * Create your own solar systems with StarGen. Play with initial conditions to see how they affect the solar system. Gives details about formed system, like number of planets, types of planets (gas giant, rocky, etc.), their orbits, their surface temperatures, and much more.
 * StarGen
 * nine planets tour
 * Robotic Telescope Networks: []
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