links for the NCSSM Astrophysics course
table of contents
planets around other stars
the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
black holes
dark matter
brown dwarfs
the solar neutrino mystery
starbirth
starbirth
summary table
planetary nebulae
supernovae
gravitational effects on time and space
(including black holes)
galactic evolution
cosmology
properties of stars
the
25 brightest stars
the
30 closest stars
the brightest
314 (m < 3.55) stars from The Observer's Handbook
the
surface of Betelgeuse the first image of the surface of a star
other than the sun
Blackbody
Radiation (virtual reality)
Doppler
Effect Applet
Binary
Star Applet
planets around other stars
planets
around a pulsar the first confirmed discovery of earth and
jupiter-sized planets around any star.... but how did they get to be
around a star that supernovaed? are they debris?
in October '95 the discovery of the first planet orbiting a solar-type
star (51 Pegasi) was announced and confirmed.... and in Jan '96, the
discovery of two other planets (both around sun-like stars) followed...
the complete list: SFSU's Planetary Search
page details a comparison of the 100+ confirmed extrasolar planets
around solar-type stars
and the Extrasolar
Planets Encyclopedia from France has exhaustive data
the search for extra-terrestrial
intelligence
The Astrobiology Web
the SETI
Institute now at Greenbank
SERENDIP
at UC-Berkeley
META/BETA
at Harvard
black holes
black hole reference articles
black hole candidates (in binary systems)
black hole candidates (at centers of clusters
or galaxies)
dark matter
tutorial on Dark
Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Dark
Matter page from the Center for Particle Astrophysics
MACHO
candidates one event in the LMC and four events near the galactic
center
the OGLE project 12
microlensing candidates near the galactic center
MACHOs
are 50% of halo dark matter ? so says a team from Lawrence Livermore
and the Center for Particle Astrophysics
Hubble rules out red
dwarfs as dark matter
brown dwarfs
Gliese
229B verification of the first brown dwarf by Hubble, with a guide to
the differences between planets, stars, and dwarfs
the solar neutrino mystery
a short
introductory guide to neutrinos and how to detect them with water
summary
of current data from all solar neutrino experiments
neutrino
detection experiments links to theory and to all experiments
(Magnetic?)
Activity Cycles on other Stars
Activity
Dependence on Stellar Age
Maunder
minimum
current Magnetogram,
Dopplergram, Intensitygram, and Sunspot current
starbirth
CCS
Observations of B335 the first Bok globule caught in the act of
contracting
EGGS: starbirth in
M16 it made the front page of the Durham Morning Herald & the
New York Times
- fly into M16
courtesy of CNN (a QuickTime Movie... bonus: see the face of Jesus
and/or Gene Shalit)
jets in Herbig-Haro
objects
Young Stellar Objects
triggered star
formation in NGC 2264: 6 daughters and 1 parent
infrared view of the heart of the Orion molecular
cloud
protoplanetary disks around stars
discovery of more than a hundred proplyds in the
Orion nebula
4 new protoplanetary
disks in Orion and the Orion mosaic
edge-on disk around
Beta Pictoris from Hubble
a Jan '96 Hubble image showing a warped disk around
Beta Pictoris caused by a planet?
images of Beta
Pictoris
planetary nebulae
Planetary
Nebulae Observers Home Page
Bruce Balick's
Planetary page
the Cat's-Eye
(NGC 6543) a planetary nebula ejection in a double-star system
NGC 7027 the
first discovered to radiate in the IR (dust) and the radio (CO
molecules)
the Hourglass
planetary (MyCn18) a dust cloud pinches the waist of the gas nebula
Helix Nebula
explosion thousands of "cometary knots" seen in the nearest planetary
Cocoon of a New
White Dwarf NGC 2440
missing links between red giants
and bright planetary nebula:
Egg Nebula
NGC 2346 the Butterfly
the first photo released after the Feb. '97 fix
Cepheid
photometry and radial velocity archive from McMaster University
doomed star Eta
Carinae view it in 3-dimensions if you had red/blue glasses
supernovae and their remnants
a neutron
star alone in space
Crab Nebula: the
Movie
Hubble views the Crab
nebula
Supernova 1987A
the Cygnus loop
a shock wave from a supernova
pulsar
resources from Princeton
gravitational effects on space and time
Naked singularities are possible? The Stephen
Hawking-Kip Thorne bet:
Frequently Asked
Questions about black holes
Falling into a
Black Hole
movies
of colliding black holes, wormholes, and more.... from the NCSA
supercomputer
virtual trips to black holes
and neutron stars
2 new Einstein
crosses
gravitational
lensing in a cluster of galaxies
images
of 30 gravitational lenses
the LIGO Project to detect gravitational
waves your tax dollars at work
Relativity
Tutorial
our galaxy
Multiwavelength
Milky Way a view of the Milky Way in 7 different spectral regions
galaxies
the
1920 Shapley-Curtis debate are galaxies island universes? what
really happened
NASA
extragalactic database published info on any extragalactic object
galactic evolution
Hubble keeps looking farther into space &
farther back in time:
Hubble tries to solve the quasar mystery
cosmology: the future of the universe
the top 4 cosmology sites:
the WMAP site offers a crash course in Big Bang cosmology
and also great Images
Ned Wright's
cosmology tutorial plus his Javascript Cosmology
Calculator
Wayne Hu's guide
to the CMBR
Max Tegemark's page
has links to popular articles, CMB calculations and animations
The Standard Cosmological Model, P. J. Peebles, Jun '98 abstract
astro-ph/9806201
tutorial on Dark
Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe
1996
Scale of the Universe debate on the value of Hubble's constant
May 9, '96 Hubble
observers converge on value of Ho?
The
Evolution of the Universe Scientific American, March '98,
Peebles, Schramm, Turner & Kron
the
age problem: are the oldest things older than the universe?
Hipparcos and the Ages of Globular Clusters,
Krauss
preprint
astro-ph/9706128 ApJ
494 (1), pp96-110
is
the Universe's expansion accelerating? so say these:
High
Redshift Supernova Search
High-z
SN- Home page
inflation and the cosmological constant
Living with the Cosmological Constant, J.D.Cohn, abstract
astro-ph/9807128
The End of the Age Problem, and the Case for
the Cosmological Constant, Krauss et al.
abstract
astro-ph/9706227 ApJ
501(2), pp.461-466
Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Inflation, M.S.
Turner, April '97
abstract
astro-ph/9704062
the Big Bang
take
a trip back to the Big Bang on the NCSA cosmology page
Cosmic
Microwave Background - FAQs
Anistropies
in the CMB
Cambridge
cosmology page: black holes, cosmic strings, the big bang, & Stephen
Hawking
gamma-ray bursters
the
Distance to Gamma-Ray bursters 1995 Scale of the Universe debate
Hubble
id's optical counterpart of gamma-ray burst in distant galaxy
Scientific
American: Article: Gamma-Ray Bursts (full text and pictures with
links) July '97 issue
simulations, applets, virtual reality,
movies
Blackbody
Radiation (virtual reality)
Galaxy
Cluster Simulation change the mass and watch the galaxy velocities
change (applet)
Doppler
Effect Applet
Binary
Star Applet
change the orbit size, eccentricity, inclination
& see the radial velocity curves and the orbits
watch a cluster H-R
diagram evolve (movie)