Breadcrumb Home Demos Astronomy Astronomy Support Equipment8 - 00.00 - Support Equipment used for Astronomy8-00.01 - Astronomy Simulations and Animations from the University of Nebraska at LincolnMeasurement1A10.41/8A10.80 - Geochron/Analemma1A60.10 - Powers of 10Orbits1L20.10/8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole1L20.30 - Escape Velocity (Escape from a Gravity Well)1L20.40 - Conical Sections1L20.50 - Ellipse Maker1L20.60/8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws1L20.66/7D30.90 - Orbits on the Overhead/Mass Spectrometer ModelRotational Dynamics1Q30.40 - Fluctuating Magnetic Fields/Cons. of Angular MomentumStatics of Fluids2B40.55 - Particle Diffusion In Stellar Medium - Percolation & Convection CellsWave Motion2C40.90 - Shock Wave Fronts: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability3B25.67 - Culvert Whistlers3B45.13 - Shock Wave Fronts - Hydraulic JumpHeat and the First Law4B50.60/8A70.40 - The Greenhouse EffectPhotometry6B10.25 - Wein's Law - Planetary Sunlight Intensity6B40.10 - Variac and Light Bulb6B40.30 - Black Body RadiationKirchoff's Law and Spectroscopy7B10.10 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Emission Lines7B10.11 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Flame Salts7B10.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Gas Discharge7B10.20 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Mercury Emission Lines7B11.15 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Sodium Absorption7B11.60 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - "Glo-doodler"7B11.65 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Rare Earths, Didymium Glass7B11.75 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Chlorophyll7B11.80 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Food Coloring7B11.85 - Spectral Lines/Spectroscopy - Copper Compounds - "Vanish"Radioactivity7D10.80 - Cosmic RaysSuperstring Theory8-Mani - 4 Manifold, Calabi - Yau, Gosset 421 PolytopePlanetary AstronomyHistorical Astronomy8A05.05 - Historical Astronomy8A05.10 - Calendar Wheels8A05.15 - Stonehenge - Megaliths8A05.20 - Constellations8A05.25 - Sky Atlas - Sky Charts8A05.30 - Eratosthenes' Measurement of Earth's Radius8A05.35 - Ptolemaic and Copernican Models of the Solar System8A05.40 - Kepler's Laws8A05.50 - Circular Sundial8A05.60 - Cross-Staff8A05.65 - Meridian Transit - Theodolite8A05.70 - Celestial Navigation Instruments - Sextants - Astro-compass8A05.75 - Quadrant / Astrolabe8A05.80 - Artificial Horizon8A05.85 - Chronometer8A05.90 - HeliostatSolar System Mechanics8A10.05 - Origin of the Solar System8A10.10 - Orrery Model8A10.15 - Scale Model Demos of the Solar System8A10.20 - Locating Stars8A10.22 - Tracking Stars, Sun, and Moon8A10.25 - Diurnal Astronomy8A10.30 - Planispheric Planetarium8A10.40 - Sidereal Time8A10.50 - Procession of the Equinox8A10.70 - Sunrise - Sunset/Refracted Sun8A10.75 - Distortion Due to Refraction by Earth's Atmosphere8A10.80 - Analemma8A10.90 - Apparent Motion of the SunEarth-Moon Mechanics8A20.05 - Earth's Seasons8A20.15 - Lunar Phases - Terminator Line Demo8A20.19 - Phases of the Planets8A20.20 - Albedo8A20.22 - Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit8A20.25 - Eclipse - Eclipse Model8A20.30 - Eclipse - Solar Eclipse8A20.35 - Eclipse - Lunar8A20.37 - Eclipse Models and Umbra/Penumbra Demos8A20.40 - Transit - Mercury & Venus8A20.45 - Occultation8A20.50 - Earth/Moon System - Center of Mass8A20.55 - Earth/Moon System - Communications8A20.60 - Earth/Moon Distance - Lunar Retro-reflector8A20.65 - Earth/Moon/Sun Demo - Tellurium8A20.70 - Scale of the Earth/Sun/Moon System8A20.80 - Tides - Moon or Spacecraft8A20.90 - Tidal HeatingViews From Earth - 18A30.10 - The Horizon - Estimating the Distance to the Horizon8A30.30 - Retrograde Motion of Inner Planets Demo8A30.32 - Retrograde Motion8A30.45 - Distortion due to Refraction8A30.50 - Synodic Period8A30.70 - Parallax8A30.80 - Auto-resonance8A30.90 - Roche LimitViews From Earth - 28A35.10 - Celestial Sphere8A35.20 - Armillary Sphere8A35.30 - Satellite OrbitsPlanetary Properties 1: Subheading - Globes, Hemispheres, & Maps8A40.05 - Maps8A40.10 - Globes, Planets, and SatellitesPlanetary Properties 2: Subheading - The Planets8A50.10 - Mercury8A50.12 - Mercury's Orbit8A50.15 - Perihelion of Mercury8A50.20 - Venus8A50.30 - Earth8A50.34 - Geological Timeline and Fossils - Earth8A50.35 - The Moon8A50.36 - The Moon's Orbit8A50.37 - Lunar Missions8A50.38 - Moonquakes8A50.39 - The Moon's Offset Center-of-Mass8A50.40 - Mars8A50.41 - Mars Missions, Orbital Timing8A50.42 - Aerobraking at Mars8A50.45 - Mars' Moons8A50.50 - Jupiter8A50.55 - Jupiter's Moons/Galilean Satellites8A50.60 - Saturn8A50.65 - Saturn's Moons8A50.70 - Uranus8A50.75 - Uranus' Moons8A50.80 - Neptune8A50.85 - Neptune's Moons & Triton's Liq. N2 GeysersPlanetary Properties 3: Subheading - Planetoids, Minor Objects8A60.10 - Minor Planets and Pluto/Charon8A60.25 - Asteroids8A60.30 - Meteorites8A60.33 - Tektites8A60.35 - Meteors8A60.40 - Outer Solar System Objects8A60.50 - The Kuiper Belt8A60.60 - Extrasolar Planets8A60.65 - Habitable Zone8A60.70 - Matter from Outside Our Solar SystemPlanetary Properties 4: Subheading - Planetary Characteristics4B70.23 - Cloud Formation by Cooling4B70.25 - Cloud in a Bottle6A40.47 - Refraction - Twinkling Planets and Stars6F40.10 - Distortion due to Atmospheric Scattering - Reddening Due to Atmospheric Scattering or Interstellar Dust8A70.05 - Geological Samples8A70.06 - Refractory Minerals8A70.10 - Planetary Magnetism8A70.20 - Earth's Atmosphere8A70.22 - Sounding Balloon Experiment8A70.25 - Earth - Climate Change8A70.30 - Transient Luminous Emissions - Sprites, Jets, and Elves8A70.35 - Lightening Whistlers8A70.40 - The Greenhouse Effect8A70.45 - Cloud Formation - Smog8A70.52 - Planetary Atmosphere Models8A70.55 - Rotational Banding/Planetary Atmospheres8A70.60 - Precipitation in the Solar System8A70.65 - Aurora8A70.75 - Gaseous Planets - Atmospheres8A70.77 - Planetary Cores8A70.78 - Planetary Gravities8A70.80 - Red Hot Ball - Planetary Temperatures8A70.82 - Protoplanets and Planetshine8A70.85 - Earthquake Model8A70.87 - Tectonic Plates8A70.90 - Crater FormationPlanetary Properties 5: Subheading - Comets and the Search for Life8A80.10 - Make a Comet8A80.15 - Comets8A80.30 - Halley's Comet8A80.40 - Comet Hale-Bopp8A80.90 - The Creating of Life in the Classroom8A80.92 - Pond Scum8A80.95 - Life On Other PlanetsStellar AstronomyThe Sun8B10.10 - The Sun8B10.20 - Solar Constant8B10.22 - Solar Energy8B10.24 - Solar Luminosity8B10.30 - Sun - Surface Temperature8B10.35 - The Sun's Size8B10.40 - Convection Cells or Rayleigh-Benard Cell8B10.50 - Sunspots8B10.55 - Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections8B10.60 - Random Walk8B10.70 - Solar Oscillations8B10.80 - Stellar Fusion - Nuclear Fusion Model8B10.90 - The Poynting-Robertson EffectStellar Spectra8B20.10 - Stellar Spectra8B20.20 - Doppler Effect and Stellar Spectra8B20.40 - Gamma RaysStellar Evolution1Q40.22 - Conservation of Angular Momentum - Hoberman Sphere8B30.10 - Stellar Magnitude8B30.20 - HR Diagram8B30.30 - Stellar Lifecycle8B30.35 - Binary Star System - Eclipsing Binary or Trinary8B30.40 - Variable Stars - Cepheid Variable Stars8B30.45 - Supernova and Novae8B30.50 - Supernova Core Bounce8B30.60 - Neutron Stars8B30.65 - Pulsar Demo8B30.70 - Sounds of Pulsars8B30.72 - X-Ray Pulsars8B30.75 - White Dwarfs8B30.80 - Brown Dwarf8B30.85 - Red Giants8B30.90 - Nebula8B30.95 - Forward, Backward, and Side Scattering - Zodiacal LightBlack Holes8B40.10 - Black Holes8B40.11 - Black Hole "Earth"8B40.20 - Black Hole Surface - Fiberglass or Plastic8B40.30 - Membrane Table8B40.40 - Gravity Well - Black Hole8B40.50 - Magnetic Field Coupling8B40.60 - Galactic JetsStellar Miscellaneous8B50.10 - Local Star Map - Cosmic Neighborhood8B50.15 - Fast Moving Stars8B50.30 - Interferometry8B50.45 - Hydrostatic Equilibrium8B50.60 - Lookback Time8B50.70 - Olber's Paradox8B50.80 - Gamma Ray BurstsCosmologyModels of the Universe8C10.05 - Cosmological Models8C10.10 - The Big Bang8C10.20 - Cosmic Microwave Background8C10.25 - Steady State, Expanding, Contracting Universe8C10.30 - Expanding Universe8C10.39 - Expanding Universe8C10.50 - Galaxies - 1000 Megaparsecs8C10.52 - Milky Way Galaxy8C10.55 - View of the Galactic Center from a Spiral Arm8C10.60 - Galaxy Model/Spiral Galaxies8C10.70 - Radio Galaxies8C10.75 - AGN - Active Galactic Nuclei8C10.76 - Galaxy Halo8C10.80 - One Million Galaxies8C10.90 - Globular ClustersGravitational Effects8C20.10 - Klein Bottle8C20.20 - Moebius Strip8C20.25 - Lagrange Point - Lagrangian Location8C20.30 - Saddle Shape8C20.35 - Non-Euclidean Geometry8C20.40 - Gravitational Lens8C20.50 - Cosmic Web, Gravitational Waves - LIGO8C20.53 - Gravity Sandbox8C20.55 - Gravitational Waves - Spiraling Black Holes8C20.60 - Quasars8C20.70 - Cosmic Strings8C20.80 - Dark Matter8C20.90 - Dark EnergyMiscellaneousMiscellaneous Astronomy8D10.10 - Astrophotography8D10.20 - Daytime Observations8D10.30 - Tossing on a Rotating Space Station - ISS Gravity8D10.50 - Astronaut Training8D10.80 - Space DebrisTelescopes8D20.10 - Radio Telescopes8D20.20 - Microwave Telescopes8D20.30 - Infrared Telescopes8D20.40 - Optical Telescopes8D20.45 - Solar Telescope8D20.47 - Hubble Space Telescope - HST, and James Webb Space Telescope8D20.50 - UV Telescopes8D20.60 - X-Ray Telescopes8D20.70 - Gamma Ray TelescopesAstronomical Instruments8D30.10 - Satellite Models - Van Allen Satellite Model8D30.20 - Spacecraft Models8D30.50 - Satellites8D30.55 - Space Shuttle Tiles - Space Shuttle8D30.57 - Aerogel8D30.60 - Spacecraft8D30.70 - Slingshot Effect - Gravity AssistAstronomy Teaching TechniquesTechniques and Projects8E30.05 - Two Films - Astronomy Knowledge8E30.10 - Teaching Astronomy With Games8E30.20 - Build an Observational Astronomy Program8E30.30 - Teaching with Astronomical Catalogues8E30.40 - Using Space to Teach Physics