AST 10: Introductory Astronomy II
Arvind Borde
arvind dot borde at liu dot edu
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"?
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More information here
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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)