Visit to Space Sciences

Life Cycles of Stars

Posted July 31st, 2007 by Nancy S
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New Jersey Astronomy Center for Education http://www.raritanval.edu/planetarium/

A presentation about stellar evolution is followed with the construction of a large Hertzsprung-Russel diagram by the group plotting data on a flip chart-sized diagram.

The Spandex Universe

Posted July 17th, 2007 by David Rothstein
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Gravity Probe B Educator's Guide (see p. 43 of the PDF file at http://einstein.stanford.edu/RESOURCES/education-index.html#guide for instructions on how to build the Spandex Universe, although the one we have in the Cornell Astronomy Department was built using a slightly different method)

The Spandex Universe is a large two-dimensional space-time model.  read more »

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