Workings and Explorations of the Universe Part 2

The Earth:
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/earth/earth.html

The Terrestrial Planets: http://wind.cc.whecn.edu/~marquard/astronomy/terrestrial.htm

The Jovian Planets: http://wind.cc.whecn.edu/~marquard/astronomy/jovian.htm

Moons, Asteroids, Rings and Pluto:
http://www.hep.fsu.edu/~tadams/oldcourses/fall02/ast1002/lectures/Lecture093002.ppt

The Sun:
http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

Properties of Stars:
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/astronomy/notes/notes10.html

Stellar Evolution:
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/textbook/se.html

Neutron Stars & Black Holes:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html

http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/BH/blkmain.html

Milky Way
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/Milkyway.html

Galaxies:
http://www.seds.org/messier/galaxy.html

Cosmology:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html

The Beginning of the Universe:
http://www.geocities.com/beyondearth2001/bigbang.htm

http://www.innerexplorations.com/chtheomortext/origin.htm

http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth11.html

http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/DidTheUniverseHaveABeginning.asp

Life in the Universe:
http://www.lifeinuniverse.org/

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/life-04zw.html

http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=1241

http://proxy.arts.uci.edu/~nideffer/Hawking/

Workings and Explorations of the Universe Part 1

(This)... "will require critical thinking on your part to start with the most basic observations assumptions of nature to develope a deeper understnading of why the 3rd rocky planet from a yellow star, in a spiral galaxy, in a nondescript part of the universe, has creatures upon it that ponder the meaning of life." (from Dr. Brian Murphy's syllabus: Spring 2009 AS102 Mordern Astronomy).

Scale of the Universe:
http://www.krysstal.com/scale.html

Copernican Revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_revolution

Light and Matter:

"I would say that light is not matter, and if a glass of water overflows when you shine a light on it, then odds are you bumped the table. Also note that in that experiment, if light were matter, then the water should continue to overflow until the glass is empty of water and full of light. Somehow I doubt that happens." (ToSeek Vulcan Administrator found in
Bad Astronomy and Universe forum)
http://www.bautforum.com/science-technology/13666-light-matter.html

Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the light pulse into matter that travels between the two locations and is subsequently changed back to light. http://www.physorg.com/news90077438.html

How Telescopes work: http://science.howstuffworks.com/telescope.htm

Properties and Foramtion of the Solar System & Exoplanets:
http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=28802

http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~ast101/nov20/nov20_08.pdf

http://www.scs.gmu.edu/~pbecker/lecture29_handouts.pdf

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/richer/A310/PPT/L23-24.ppt

Milky Way Galaxy 50% larger than thought

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/milkyway.html

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