Astronomy is a fun and challenging science for students. This manual is intended for one- and two-semester astronomy courses and uses hands-on, engaging activities to get students looking at the sky and developing a lifelong interest in astronomy.
Wethank Lars Lindberg Christensen (European Southern Observatory, ESO) and Pedro Russo (Leiden University) for their tremendous support of FETTU and their vision for IYA. Gary Evans (Science Photo Library) was instrumental in getting ...
Exploring the Universe
From our own Milky Way to distant galactic clusters; from the theories, facts, and speculations surrounding the Big Bang, the expanding Universe, cosmic background radiation, and life in other parts of the Universe to the ways we witnness ...
Explore the stars and planets and beyond through 300 fascinating images – an international panel of experts take you on a journey through man's record of the universe – from ancient cave paintings to animation.
Describes what scientists have been able to deduce about the nature of our solar system and the universe based on data collected by the Hubble telescope.
New graduates, PhD scholars, teachers and researchers will benefit from this volume. Moreover it is a record of tremendous success of a school in a range of vast topics. This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof.
Provides a tour of the potential universes that could exist as a part of Einstein's theory of general relativity and introduces the physicists and mathematicians whose latest discoveries and ideas about physics and astronomy promote the ...
Elaine Scott and Margaret Miller , Adventure in Space : The Flight to Fix the Hubble ( New York : Hyperion Books for Children , 1995 ) , p . 10 . . 3. Robert W. Smith , The Space Telescope : A Study of NASA , Science , Technology , and ...
Examines how men and machines can be used to explore the universe.
Horizons: Exploring the Universe