ISP 205

VISIONS OF THE UNIVERSE

Some handy links

These include most of the animated graphics that I show in class. Try them yourself!

General

Astronomy courses on the web

Laws of Motion, Light

Ptolemy’s Epicycles

Solar System Simulator …fun! See if you can make the death star Nemisis take out the Earth!

Other gravity simulations

Kepler’s first law

Kepler 2^nd law

Newton’s Canon

Propagating Electromagenetic Wave (Chinese font not needed)

Quantum Mechanical Representation of Electron Orbits

Doppler shift demo

The Solar System

The Nine Planets …lots and lots of solar system info.

Global Warming Info

NASA Space Missions

Calculate your weight on other planets

Formation of the Moon--- computer simulations"

Formation of the Moon--- Paintings

Rotating Venus

Rotating Mars

Rotating Cloud Patterns on Jupiter

Rotating Io with Erupting Volcanos

Rotating Pluto

Stars

Solar granules

Solar spicules

Sunspot movie

X-ray vs. optical images of Sun

Optical fading into X-Ray view of Sun

X-ray view of rotating Sun

Interactive HR Diagram

HR Diagram - The Movie

The Pulsar Lighthouse

Catalogue of Planets Outside the Solar System

Binary Star Simulation

Galaxies, General Relativity, Cosmology

The Spiral Arms of M81 in different colors

Orbits: General Relativistic vs. Newtonian

Orbits in Strongly Curved Spacetime

Approaching a Black Hole

Stars rotating around black hole at center of our galaxy

The Cosmic Web

Time Evolution of Cosmic Web

Milky Way colliding with M31