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1. General Education Astronomy Source

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Byline:: N. Vogt

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This website provides an extensive set of resources for both traditional and distance-learning undergraduate introductory astronomy courses. These materials cover topics from…

http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/geas/oview/geas.shtml

2. ASPIRE: Star Life Cycle

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Byline:: High Resolution Fly's Eye: Physics at the University of Utah

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This website provides a tutorial on the evolution of stars. It begins with proto-stars, then provides information about main-sequence stars, hydrostatic equilibrium, helium burning,…

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/Labs/StarLife/

3. Science, Optics & You: Secret Worlds - The Universe Within

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Byline:: M. Davidson

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This web page provides a discussion of the different speeds with which someone on Earth is moving in the universe and how astronomers measure such speeds. It includes background…

http://web.archive.org/web/20150717032503/http://www.astrosociety.org/ed...

5. Distance to the Center of the Milky Way

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Byline:: Publisher: University of Washington Astronomy Department

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In this exercise, students use the locations of globular clusters in the galactic halo to estimate the distance of the Sun from the center of the Milky Way.

http://physics.weber.edu/palen/Clearinghouse/homeworks/mwcenter.html