Astro 597A: Stars and Planets, Summer 2003

Instructor: Dr. Christopher Palma

• 508 Davey Lab
• cpalma@astro.psu.edu
• 863-6091

Our Class Image of M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula

Potentially Useful Links:

• NASA GSFC Astronomy Picture of the Day
• NASA GSFC Imagine the Universe
• National Science Education Standards: Standards for Professional Development
• Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy
• Space Science Institute and Kinesthetic Astronomy
• The History of the Sextant by Peter Ifland
• LHS GEMS Invisible Universe Teacher's Guide
• EM Radiation Universe in the Classroom
• FUSE spectroscopy and grating equation activity
• Solar System Scale Calculator
• Penn State Mars Society
• One of the Comet Recipe sites
• The Comet's Tale
• STScI Amazing Space Make a Comet
• Gettysburg University CLEA Project
• NOAA Space Environment Center
• Solar Max
• Space Weather.com
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Hubble Space Telescope Solar System Showcase
• Astrobiology article on space exploration
• NASA summary of space missions
• Pluto: New Horizons
• Mercury: Messenger
• 3D Orion Activity Universe in the Classroom
• James Kaler's Stellar Spectra website
• Kepler's Laws (simple)
• Kepler's Laws (complex)
• Algol movie
• Mars Odyssey
• Nozomi (Mars Mission)
• Mars Express and Beagle 2
• MERS Mission
• Observing Mars
• Sagittarius dSph movie
• Another Sagittarius dSph movie
• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Artist's Illustrations of Chandra
• Space Telescope Resources
• AstroWeb Index of Astronomy websites
• BIMA Radio Array information site
• Gasoline Gallery Images from Computer Simulations of Astophysical Phenomena
• California & Carnegie Exoplanets
• Geneva Extrasolar planet search
• A Brief History of Extrasolar planets
• JPL's Planetquest (follow the link for educator resources
• Planetary transit searches
• PSU's exoplanets website
• Arecibo Radio Message