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General Astronomy Pages

• Sommers-Bausch Observatory (Keith Gleason) Homepage for the observatory here on the CU campus. Contains information on lab sections for astronomy courses, public viewing nights, and events of interest in the night skies.
• Fiske Planetarium (Francisco "Tito" Salas) Page contains schedules for astronomy programs, both evening and Saturday matinees, as well as lasershows. It also contains a link to the Science Discovery Program, information on renting out the planetarium for private parties, and a way cool clock that displays local Boulder time as well as Universal Time (GMT).
• APS Courses for the Current Term This page lists course offerings for the current academic year (as well as some courses from past years). Included are links to course and instructor homepages, if any, and links to information on lab sessions.
• Stars and Galaxies: a Hypertext Course (Prof. Dick McCray) Professor McCray's introductory astronomy course.
• CASA Astronomy Link List An extensive set of links to observatories, abstract servers, journals, astronomical software, etc.. Mostly intended for professional astronomers and people curious about what we're really up to.

Planets & The Solar System

• Solar System Collaboratory (Prof. Fran Bagenal) A web project to help school children learn about the Solar System. This is a multi-university collaboration and is currently in use in the schools.
• New Horizons mission to Pluto Learn all about Pluto and the Kuiper Belt and NASA's New Horizons mission.
• Press Release on Dust Formation in Orion (Henry Throop) This is the text of a press release on the discovery of the formation of dust particles around new stars in Orion.
• High Altitude Observatory (HAO) Education Page (Paul Charbonneau) The page contains information about solar physics. This includes the Sun itself, as well as the solar wind and its interaction with the Earth, e.g. the Aurorae Borealis. Follow this link to learn a little about our very own star.

Galaxies & Cosmology

• Massive Galaxy Cluster at High Redshift ( Prof. John Stocke) This links to a NASA press release and HST pictures of a massive cluster of galaxies at high redshift (z=0.83). The cluster is additional evidence that the universe is "open", i.e., that it will continue to expand forever. A major contributor to this work was Megan Donahue, a graduate of the CU Doctoral Program in Astrophysics. Megan is now at Space Telescope Science Institute.

Relativity & Black Holes

• Falling Into a Black Hole (Prof. Andrew Hamilton) A page that animates a trip into a black hole. Describes some of the physics one might encounter in falling into a black hole. Be warned, this is painful.

Outside Web Resources

• Astro Web A large astronomy web resource maintained by Space Telescope Science Institute.
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific Education Site These pages contain activities for teachers of K-12 classes and information on Project Astro, which links classroom teachers and astronomers. It also has links to information on teaching astronomy at the college level, the history of astronomy, women in astronomy, and other topics.
• Dynamical Astronomy JavaLab -- This is a website maintained by Prof. Chris Mihos of the Case Western Reserve astronomy department. He provides many Java Applets that incorporate real physics to simulate astronomical events.