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Theme Semester Resources

• E-mail Events list: to join, click here
• Google Calendar
• Astronomy of the 21st Century Distinguished Speaker Series
  • Audio and Lecture slides in Deep Blue Archive
  • Audio on iTunesU
• Saturday Morning Physics
  • videotaped lectures on iTunes U
  • videotaped lectures on CARMA
• Second Life: Wolverine Island
  For more information and instructions for access, click here
• Facebook
• Public Astronomy in Michigan

Web resources

International Year of Astronomy

• International Year of Astronomy 2009
• International Year of Astronomy 2009: US Node

Images

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Hubble Site News Center
• Spitzer Space Telescope Press Releases

News

• Space.com News
• Spaceflight Now

Podcasts

• TED - Peering Into Space
• TED - To Boldly Go
• Astronomy Cast

Star gazing

• Space Weather Forecast (note the satellite predictions)
• Heavens Above Star Gazing Maps - Ann Arbor
• Sky and Telescope - The Essential Astronomy Magazine
• Space.com - Nightsky

Software/Visualization

• Google Sky
• Worldwide Telescope - Take a Tour of the Sky
• Celestia- Free Space Simulator
• Stellarium- Free Desktop Planetarium

Light Pollution

• National Geographic- Light Pollution

Astronomy Mythology

• Ian Ridpath Star Tales - Constellation Myths
• Multicultural Astronomy: The Astronomy of Non-western Cultures: A Resource Guide

 

 

 

 

 

 

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