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Instructor:
  • Prof. Paul Schechter
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  • 8.902
Departments:
  • Physics
As Taught In: Fall 2004
Level: Graduate

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    Astrophysics

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Astrophysics II
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Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Web

The following links will take you to Web sites which are especially useful, informative, and entertaining.

The Great Shapley-Curtis Debate of 1920 on the Scale of the Universe

Astronomy Picture of the Day Index

Hubble Space Telescope Images

Color Photographs from the Anglo-Australian Observatory

STScI Digitized Sky Survey: The Whole Sky, gif or fits

Falling into a Black Hole (GIF movies)

The Milky Way Collides with the Andromeda Galaxy 3 Gyr from Now (MPEG Movies)

Very Useful but Less Entertaining

Preprint Archive (“astro-ph”)

NASA Astrophysics Data System ABSTRACT SERVICE

Prof. Bill Press’ Introduction to Astrophysics Course at Harvard U

Astronomical Coordinate Systems

Less Useful but More Entertaining

MIThenge

The Milky Way at 7 Different Wavelengths (Free Poster!)

Course Info

Instructor:
  • Prof. Paul Schechter
Course Number:
  • 8.902
Departments:
  • Physics
As Taught In: Fall 2004
Level: Graduate

Topics

  • Science
    Physics
    Astrophysics

Learning Resource Types

notes Lecture Notes
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