Astronomy and Cosmology
Spring 2015

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

Get Involved!!!

• Zooniverse
• The Milky Way project
• SETI@home

ADDITIONAL READINGS

• Brooklyn Expanding?
• Global warming
• Antibiotic resistant bacteria
• Evolution of the human genome

PHYSICS WEBSITES

• On-line science simulations from PHeT
• Scale of the Universe

ASTRONOMICAL WEBSITES

• Public observing nights at the Schommer Observatory (on the roof of Serin) take place on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month, weather permitting.
• space.com -- good, all-around news about space and astronomy
• The Sounds of Pulsars.
• Stellarium -- free planetarium-like software for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux
• Celestia -- free space views software for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux
• Heavens Above -- see when bright satellites, etc. are passing overhead
• Google Sky -- like Google Maps, but looking up
• Kepler Orrery
• Space Weather
• Planet finding: Radial Velocity Method
• Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures
• Chandra X-ray Observatory Photo Album
• Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph, along with a brief explanation.
• Astronomical animations
• History of Mathematics. Read the biographies of the following Scientists
  • Aristotle (384BC-322BC)
  • Euclid of Alexandria (c.325BC-c.265BC)
  • Aristarchus of Samos (c.310BC-c.320BC)
  • Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276BC-194BC)
  • Claudius Ptolemy (c.85-c.165)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
  • Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
  • Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
  • Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
  • John Flamsteed (1646-1719)
  • Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827)
  • James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
  • Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (1832-1928)
  • Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909)
  • Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
  • Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916)
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  • Arthur Eddington (1882-1944)
  • Aleksandr Friedmann (1888-1925)
  • Edwin Hubble (1889-1953)
  • Stephen Hawking (1942- )
• Current and Upcoming Major Space Missions for High Energy Astronomy
  • Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (launched 30 Dec 1995)
  • Chandra X-ray Observatory (launched 23 Jul 1999)
  • X-ray Multimirror Mission (launched 10 Dec 1999)
  • Suzaku (launched 10 July 2005)
  • Fermi Gamma-Ray Observatory (launched 11 June 2008)
  • A compendium of NASA space science missions.

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The address of this page is http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/110/supp.html

Please send any comments to Jack Hughes, jph "at" physics.rutgers.edu.

Revised January 20, 2015