Physics 306 (Basic Astronomy), Spring 2008
Right Ascension and Declination of the Sun for 2008
Right Ascension and Declination of the Moon for 2008
The Moon's motion in the horizon coordinate system
Meeting in Cairo, plus images from there and Paris (April 2008)
Some reasons why climate changes on Earth
The cosmological distance ladder
Look-back time, the age of the universe, and the case for a positive cosmological constant (an article published in 1993 in the Journal of the RAS of Canada).
Astronomy research at Texas A&M
Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae
This is an image of the burn-up of a Space Shuttle fuel tank, just south of the Big Island. It was taken at the 9200-ft level of Mauna Kea by William Albrecht in April of 1984. The view is to the southeast.
Last modified on 02 June 2008.
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