AST 10: Introductory Astronomy II

NASA Universe Website

LINKS ("V"=Video) General Astronomy Picture of the Day Measuring distances in the Universe (V) The Milky Way Galactic center animation (UCLA galactic center group) (V) Stellar Energy and Nucleosynthesis Bethe Nobel award Energy production in stars (Bethe Nobel Prize Lecture) Supernovae Might Betelgeuse "go supernova"? Supernove 1987a can't be ignored Supernova Einstein Cross (New York Times) Supernova Einstein Cross (Hubble site) Scientific Paper (just browse) Black Holes Who came up with the name "black hole"? (More information here.) Smallest black hole (2008) Smallest black hole (2011) Biggest black holes Gravitational Radiation First detection Second detection Third detection Fourth detection Nobel prize Current list of detected events Distribution of Galaxies Sloan Digital Sky Survey People Joceyln Bell Burnell: "What is That?" (V) (On her discovery of pulsars as a graduate student.) Stephen Hawking: career start (V)