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Study Aids
Sample Tests
- Test 1, October 2, 2019
- Test 2, November 6, 2019
- Final Exam 2019
- Test 1, October 13, 2010
- Test 2, November 17, 2010
- Final Exam, December 2010
- Test 1, October 8, 2009
- Test 2, November 12, 2009
- Final Exam, December 14, 2009
Links on Archaeoastronomy
Links on History of Astronomy
Gravity
Links on Telescopes
Links on Properties of Stars
Links on Sun
- Solar Physics (NASA's Marshall Space Flight Cente)
- These
Images Show the Sun’s Surface in Greater Detail Than Ever Before (The New York Times)
- Fall in Love With the Sun Again
(The Atlantic)
- The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
- Neutrino Reactions in the Heavy Water (SNO)
- Helioseismology (NASA's Marshall Space Flight Cente)
- Aurora Gallery
- When the sun erupts: How solar disturbances affect us on Earth
(Interactive) (CBC)
- The Northern and Southern Lights Are Asymmetric
Dancers in the Dark (The New York Times)
- The Wonder of
the Northern Lights (CBC)
- Heads up: Northern lights could be visible this weekend
(March 22-24, 2019) (CBC)
- NASA’s
Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun. (The New York Times)
- It’s Easier to Leave the Solar System
Than to Reach the Sun (The Atlantic)
- Pulsating aurora spotted in Canada helps explain northern
lights' origin (CBC)
- Canadian Amateurs
Discovered a New Type of Aurora (The Atlantic)
- Scientists slowly cast light on celestial
mystery known as Steve (CBC)
- Why Auroras Are Red on Mars (The
Atlantic)
- Steve,
a Famous Northern Light, Stays Mysterious (and Keeps His Name) (The New York Times)
- Hubble telescope spots 'northern lights' on
Saturn (CBC)
- Prominence (SOHO Consortium, EIT, ESA, NASA)
- The Sun is unleashing powerful solar flares from a sunspot the size of
Jupiter, Oct. 23, 2014 (sciencealert.com)
- Powerful Solar Flare, Nov. 19, 2013(space.com)
- Sun comes alive in HD images (BBC)
- SDO: Three Years of Sun in Three Minutes (NASA)
- Solving
the Scorching Mystery of the Sun’s Erupting Plasma Jets (The New York Times)
- Why
is the Sun’s corona so hot? Why are prominences so cool? (Physics Today)
- Unlocking
Mysteries in the Sun’s 11-Year Cycle (The New York Times)
- BIG NEWS: The Sun's Magnetic Field is About to Flip
(science.nasa.gov)
- Northern lights linked to North Sea whale strandings (BBC)
- The Strange Influence
the Sun Has on Whales (The Atlantic)
- New Satellite Provides
Weather Forecasts For The Final Frontier (NPR)
- Has the Sun gone to
sleep? (BBC)
- The sun is quieter than normal, but don't panic (CBC)
- The violent solar storms that threaten Earth (BBC)
- Solar storm: Evidence found of huge eruption from Sun (BBC)
- Scientists find another clue to some of the most powerful solar storms
to hit Earth (CBC)
- When
our magnetic field flips, say goodbye to modern life (CBC)
- Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age (Science)
- Celestial driver of Phanerozoic climate? (GSA TODAY)
- Recent results from the CLOUD experiment (EP Newsletter)
- How Ice Ages Happen: The Milankovitch Cycles (It's Just Astronomical!)
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