Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label astronomy. Show all posts

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Post #3: Web Resources

Site 1: The Dark Sky Institute has webpages specifically designed for high school students.

http://darkskyinstitute.org/



Site 2: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville has a number of complete courses posted on their website. The section of interest for our needs is 27.

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/index.html



Site 3: The Astronomy.com website that clearly shows how observations of the night skies are done. This site has relevant information for night time observers no matter what their experience level may be. Many links clearly show how observational astronomy is done.

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default/aspx



Site 4: This site is the business!! Lots of current information related to current astrophysical research projects! For scientists, it does not get much better!!

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter