Astronomy 101 (Basic Astronomy), Spring 2009
Right Ascension and Declination of the Sun for 2009
Solar eclipses from 1901 through 2051
Right Ascension and Declination of the Moon for 2009
Lunar eclipses from 1901 through 2051
The Moon's motion in the horizon coordinate system
How can we determine properties of dust in other galaxies?
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
Type Ia supernovae and the ESSENCE supernova survey
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 24 June 2009.
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