Sunastronomy
External Web sites
This topic is discussed at the following external Web sites.
- Montana State University - Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
- Stanford SOLAR Center
- Collection of fun educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data. Encourages student exploration of the sun’s magnetic field, surface motions, sunspot cycle, and solar interior. Information on helioseismology is presented in age-appropriate lesson plans (K-3, high school, and college). Offers a collection of links to videos, solar images, solar folklore, and many other sun facts. Quick Quizzes and Ask a Solar Physicist round out this excellent site.
- Surfing For Sunbeams - A Hypermedia Tour of Our Sun
- Illustrated information on the sun. Includes a virtual tour and brief notes on activities.
- Solar Physics
- Information on the Sun and its research by the Solar Physics Group of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Contains detailed analysis of the projects undertaken.
- Exploratorium - Sunspots
- Resource for information on the dark spots found on the surface of the sun. Provides a history of their study, details of modern research activities. Also includes an interactive section, a glossary, and a bibliography.
- Yohkoh Public Outreach Project - The Sun
- Astronomy Magazine
- The New York Times - Exploring the Solar System
- Sun, Planet and Satellite Data
- Resource providing historical, orbital, and physical data on the Sun, the nine planets, and the planets’ satellites.
- Enchanted Learning - Zoom Astronomy
- Illustrated educational resource on the solar system, asteroids, stars, and comets. Includes classroom activities, tutorials, an astronomy glossary, quizzes, and information on related topics.
- The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
- Windows to the Universe - Our Solar System
- Views of the Solar System - Sun
- KidsAstronomy.com
- NASA - Solar Physics - The Solar Interior
- NASA - The Sun
- FusEdWeb | Fusion Energy Education - Layers of the Sun
- Montana State University Solar Physics - Layer of the Sun
- National Aeronautics And Space Association - Layers of the Sun
- NMSU Board of Regents - The Sun
- AstronomyOnline.org - The Sun
- Office of Naval Research - Naval Research: The Sun - Inflows
- NASA - Our Sun
- Public Service Projects - How the Sun Works in Making Light and Heat
- University of Washington - The Sun, a Model Star
- Brooklyn College - The Sun’s Energy
Citations
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- Figure 1: The internal rotation of the Sun as a function of depth and latitude, as derived from …[Credits : Big Bear Solar Observatory, California Institute of Technology]
- Figure 9: The gravitational force FG exerted by the Sun on the …
- Monthly satellite measurements of total solar irradiance since 1980 comparing NASA’s ACRIMSAT data …
- The trend shown in the longer reconstruction was inferred by Lean (2000) from modeling the changes …
- The eight planets of the solar system and Pluto, in a montage of images scaled to show the …[Credits : NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory]
- Twelve solar X-ray images obtained by Yohkoh between 1991 and 1995. The solar coronal brightness …[Credits : G.L. Slater and G.A. Linford; S.L. Freeland; the Yohkoh Project]
- Venus crossing the face of the Sun, in a telescopic image recorded on a photographic plate on Dec. …[Credits : U.S. Naval Observatory Library]
- The Sun as imaged in extreme ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar and Heliospheric …[Credits : NASA]
- The Sun, photographed by astronauts on NASA’s Skylab 4 mission (Nov. 16, 1973–Feb. 8, 1974). …[Credits : NASA]
- This time-lapse film shows the formation and dissolution of granules, updrafts of gas that form …[Credits : NASA]
- The solar corona is a veil of plasma surrounding the Sun. This film shows what the corona looks …[Credits : NASA]
- The sun is a star, but it looks bigger and brighter than the others because it is the closest to us.[Credits : Acquired from Vast Video]
- Air behaves in many different ways and impacts the weather accordingly.[Credits : Acquired from Vast Video]
- Learn how the land, the air, the oceans, and the sun power the Earth’s weather.[Credits : Acquired from Vast Video]
- Learn what influences the Sun has on terrestrial weather, including the winds and oceans.[Credits : Acquired from Vast Video]
- Prominences are clouds of incandescent, ionized gas ejected from the Sun’s surface. They are also …[Credits : NASA]
- Total solar eclipse.[Credits : Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]
- Using their telescope, the brother and sister team of William and Caroline Herschel discovered the …[Credits : Acquired from Vast Video]
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