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Lesson Plans Astronomy - Hubble Deep Field Academy (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) Provides lessons and projects to learn more about the universe through images from the Hubble telescope. 3-00 Lists Astronomy Clubs and Organizations (Sky and Telescope) Provides information about "nearly 3,000 museums, planetariums, observatories, astronomy clubs, and societies." 1-01 Materials How Good Is the Hubble Telescope? Stars and Galaxies - Newest Pictures (Galex) Provides pictures of stars and galaxies using a new ultraviolet light telescope, as well as from other sources. "The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), launched by a Pegasus rocket on April 28 2003, has been observing the sky using detectors sensitive to ultraviolet light. Click on the images below to see full size images, their interpretation and to download images in various formats." 12-03 Top 10 Astronomy Photos of 2003 (Space.com - Britt) "Seldom does astronomy enjoy a year with such avid and widespread amateur participation, from first-timers watching compelling sky events and photographing them, to a kid who stumped the experts with one remarkable picture that enthralled the media and the public around the world." 12-03 News -07-15-07 Great Canary Telescope Opens (MSNBC News) "One of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes opened its shutters, turned its 34-foot wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday." 07-07 Papers Best Ever Picture of Mars (NewScientist.com) "The image can resolve features on the surface of Mars measuring just 27 kilometres across. 'These are the best that have ever been, and will ever be, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope,' says Michael Wolff of the Space Science Institute in Colorado, US." 8-03 Black Hole Pulls a Star in Orbit of Galaxy (USA Today - Vergano) "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured evidence of a black hole hurtling through our Milky Way galaxy with gravity so strong it's dragging a star with it." 11-02 Hubble Constant for Size and Age of Universe (AmericanScientist.org - Freedman) "A newly refined value of Ho, the expansion rate of the universe, may herald a first step toward a new era of 'precision" cosmology.' " "The new result suggests that our universe is about 13 billion years old, give or take a billion years, and it's a value that sits comfortably alongside the 12 billion years estimated for the age of the oldest stars." 12-03 Hubble Deep Field (Discovery.com) Provides faint images from a tiny sliver of the universe by pointing the Hubble Telescope in the same place for 10 days. "By studying Hubble deep field, scientists hope to answer many questions about the number, evolution, and ultimate fate of galaxies in the universe." 3-02 Hubble Space Telescope Images (BBC) Provides dramatic new images from the repaired Hubble telescope. 1-00 Hubble Space Telescope Upgraded (CNN) Provides some details of the equipment on Hubble that was replace. 3-02 Messier - List of 100 Objects Visible in the Night Sky (NCats.net) "Charles Messier was a French astronomer who lived from 1730 to 1817. Charles compiled a list of over 100 deep-sky objects with the original purpose of providing a resource to identify objects that were often mistaken as comets. Today, the Messier catalog stands for a collection of almost all of the magnificent deep-sky nebula, galaxies, and star clusters that can be seen through a small amateur telescope." 7-02 Messier Catalog of Objects in the Night Sky (NCats.net) Provides a list and description (including small picture) of objects visible in the night sky with a small amateur telescope. 7-02 Observing the Sun Through Projection (Percy) Warning - "Never look directly at the Sun, especially when using binoculars or a telescope. Direct sunlight can cause permanent eye damage in seconds, without the victim being aware of it until it is too late." Percy shows how to develop a way of observing the sun without actually looking directly at it by using projection. The article is at the bottom of the Web page. 8-01 Observing the Sun and Solar Eclipses (Solar Center) Provides methods to safely "observe" the sun. Never look directly at the sun or view the sun through binoculars. Never look at the sun through a telescope without specially designed filters. Viewing the sun directly or through lenses can cause permanent damage to your eyes, even blindness. 3-02 Telescopes - A History and How They Work (Peter Piper Publishing) Provides a short history of telescopes and describes how they work. 6-02 Track Satellites, Hubble Telescope and Mir (J-Track) Provides the location of satellites, the Hubble telescope, Mir space station and other objects orbiting in space. Also see which parts of the earth have daylight. Ultraviolet Space Telescope (Galex) "With sensitive ultraviolet detectors, a large field of view, and its location above the ultraviolet-absorbing atmosphere of the Earth, GALEX will perform ground breaking observations of the ultraviolet sky. GALEX will detect ultraviolet objects in the sky that are more than a million times fainter than objects we can see in visible light with our eyes from the darkest location on the ground. GALEX will also peer billions of years back into the history of the Universe." 12-03

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