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Astronomy 263/264
Lecture Related Links

Below are some links that are related to the topics covered in the lecture. This list will be updated as more topics are covered, and more interesting areas are discussed. If you have a topic or website that you would like to see included, please email the webmaster.

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Exam Answers     Exam 1     Exam 2

General Interest Links

• The Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA's Homepage
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal Website
• Current Hydrogen-Alpha Solar Image
• The Jet Propulsion Laboratory site
• Purdue SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)
• Chicago's Adler Planetarium
• The National Space Society
• The Planetary Society

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Related Articles

• "The Ultimate Vanishing" , Stephen Hawking
• "We Were Not Alone" , Ian Tattersall
• "Negative Energy, Wormholes and Warp Drive" , Lawrence H. Ford and Thomas A. Roman
• "Snowball Earth" , Paul F. Hoffman and Daniel P. Schrag
• "Forecasting the Storms and Showers of Space" , Gary Taubes
• "The Unexpected Science to Come" , Sir John Maddox
• "A Unified Physics by 2050?" , Steven Weinberg
• "The Evolution of the Universe" , P. James E. Peebles et. al.
• "Exploring Our Universe and Others" , Martin Rees
• "Deciphering the Code of Life" , Francis S. Collins and Karin G. Jegalian
• "Is there Life Elsewhere in the Universe" , Jill C. Tarter and Christopher F. Chyba
• "The Earth's Elements" , Robert P. Kirshner
• "Galileo Catches Lava Fountain on Io" , Robert Irion
• "Life in the Universe" , Steven Weinberg
• "The Evolutioin of the Earth" , Claude J. Allegre and Stephen H. Schneider
• "The Origin of Life on the Earth" , Leslie E. Orgel
• "The Evolution of Life on the Earth" , Stephen Jay Gould
• "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life" , Carl Sagan
• "The Emergence of Intelligence" , William H. Calvin
• blackhole, bigblast, starcrossing
• "Two Views of a Star's Life" , Clark R. Chapman
• "A Light Universe"
• "Brane-Worlds" , Gary Gibbons
• "Looking back to early Mars, deep into Earth" , Richard Kerr
• "The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and it's moons" , Torrence Johnson
• "Supernova pumps out iron in inside-out blast" , Robert Irdon
• "Heretical Idea Faces its Sternest Test" , Mark Sincell
• "Faulty Gyroscope Threatens To Doom Science Satellite" , John Noble Wilford
• "Particle Physicists Getting Closer to the Bang that Started It All" , James Glanz
• "The Discovery of Brown Dawrfs" , Gibor Basri
• "Astronomy and the Degrading Environment" , Johannes Anderson
• "An Infrared Look Behind Stars" , Craig J. Hogan
• "LIGO's Mission of Gravity" , Robert Irion

Last Updated: January 19, 2004