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Old 30-December-2005, 12:57 AM
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Skepticism on all sorts of topics:

The SkepticWiki http://www.skepticwiki.org/wiki

Account creation: send an e-mail with real name and requested moniker to skepticwiki AT gmail.com
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Greenwich Royal Observatory has an online beginners course.
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Let's not forget the basics:

http://www.lightandmatter.com/area1book1.html
Clearest textbook I have seen to date and it's free for the downloading.

This one, or Thompson's original version, can be had at little cost in used book shops:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/cus...views.start=11

As an incorrigible tilter at windmills and kicker of sacred cows I am compelled to reccommend this text. On the other hand, it probably should be read in conjunction with a standard calculus textbook, many good ones of which are available from vendors of used books.
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I definitely appreciate the lists posted recently on the forum on web resources.

For newbies just getting back into astronomy/related sciences and browsing online, does anyone have any suggestions on criteria these web resources should meet? How could someone know what is reliable from what is edited/spinned?
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Hello,i am a high school student doing a projcet on how the universe was created and i need someone who knows about it to interview,C an anyone help me out?

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Amazing thread, this will keep me busy for months. Thanks very much.
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An e-zine specialized on the news of new breakthroughs and discoveries in the field of extrasolar planets XSM #3 is now online.

http://www.xsmagazine.co.nr

Also, if anyone would like to contribute a story to the MyWorld section of XSM, feel free to contact me at xsmagazine@gmail.com

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Visit XSM site and join our mailing list, for the latest news on exoplanets. There weren't any spectacular news for the last couple of weeks, as you might've noticed with a lack of stories on ESPs in Universe Today.. but the field itself is of course very exciting and ever-changing, so - stay tuned for the great discoveries and breakthroughs that are basically quite frequent in this relativelly new field of astrophysics.

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Default Popular misconceptions
I received this from the moderator of this forum, not a site, but both PDF-files are very to the point, with explanations accompanied by formulas to prove things and let you find out yourselves.

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"However, this paper, by Davis and Lineweaver, provides a good, succinct account of some popular misconceptions of modern cosmology.

Davis and Lineweaver have also written a less technical account. It was published in the magazine Scientific American, in March 2005. However, you can get a (PDF) copy from Charles Lineweaver's webpage - click on the link to it (it's at the bottom of the webpage).

If you don't understand anything in either, please just ask.

I think that you should first understand the basics of the "Big Bang" theory, before trying to understand how Dark Energy fits into the concordance model
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Spaceman Spiff recently posted an article describing Caltech cosmologist Sean Carroll's Preposterous Universe site and its Cosmology Primer and FAQ pages.

Current FAQ questions:

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What is the universe expanding into?
Are distant galaxies moving faster than the speed of light? Wouldn't that violate relativity?
Does the universe have a center?
Could we detect the expansion of the universe by trying to measure the expansion of the solar system?
Is the universe finite or infinite? Will it recollapse or expand forever?
Is space flat or curved? I've heard both.
Is energy conserved in an expanding universe?
What is the difference between dark matter and dark energy?
Will we ever be able to detect dark matter or dark energy directly?
Isn't "dark energy" just like the older concept of the "ether"?
How do you know that dark matter isn't just ordinary matter that we can't see?
Could the inferred existence of dark matter and dark energy be due to a modified behavior of gravity?
Is inflation testable?
What came before the Big Bang?
Is our universe the only one, or are there others?
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Just thought I'd add a link here to the Lineweaver "misconceptions" article mentioned above:
Scientific American: Misconceptions about the Big Bang

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Baffled by the expansion of the universe? You're not alone. Even astronomers frequently get it wrong
Version from Charles Lineweaver's site (PDF half-megabyte)

Charles H Lineweaver publications
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This has become a daily favorite of mine:

http://www.lpod.org/

The Lunar Photo of the Day.

(I didn't see this one listed, yet.)
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I don't know if I posted this already but
www.nasaspaceflight.com
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Is SETI at home (?) still going, or is that ATM.

Kidding.

I didn't see it listed so it may not fit the criteria.
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I hope you'll consider the two sites in my signature line. Science news, daily sky charts, podcasts featuring interviews with scientists, blogs, great community ...

Come on over!
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I suspect this will be useful next time someone asks about how the moon moves, and looks: Lunar Phase Simulator (Flash animation)

A product of the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project, NAAP. The project appears to be ongoing, with more animations and exercise modules to come.

Some current animations:

Good stuff.
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Why didn't someone tell me this was available on the Web?

Cliffs Notes: Astronomy

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Need help with your astronomy homework and tests? We have lots of articles for you. Just browse the list of topics below, or search for something specific within our astronomy articles.
  • A Brief History of Astronomy
  • The Science of Astronomy
  • Observing the Sky
  • The Solar System
  • Earth and its Moon
  • Other Planets of the Solar System
  • The Sun, a Representative Star
  • Observational Properties of Stars
  • The Hertzsprung‐Russell Diagram
  • The Structure of Stars
  • Formation and Evolution of Stars
  • Final End States of Stars
  • The Milky Way Galaxy
  • Galaxies
  • The Universe
  • Life in the Universe
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Seen on Planetary Society Weblog: Solar systems in motion:

Solar Systems Visualizer (Flash)

Zoom in and out on our system. Investigate a particular planet's system of moons. Do the same for other systems (with less detail, of course).

It's part of the University of Maryland Astronomy Workshop, itself worth a visit.

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Astronomy Classroom
Explore the Possibilities
Solar System Calculators
Solar System Viewers
Working With Orbits
Orbital Integrators
Index of all Tools
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If you know of a particularly good site on a subject that we haven't listed , or you have or know of a personal site that may not be listed on a search engine, feel free to bring it to our attention so we can add it, if appropriate.

We would appreciate any feedback, good or bad, so we can update this list and try to make it more user friendly.

Hopefully this will be something we can all benefit from

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I'm loving the thread, but I'm wondering... is it okay also if we list good software we find that is very informative with pretty much foreseen quality information and methology behind it?
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Pinemarten inquired about SETI@home but didn't post a link.

SETI@home is indeed still ongoing; it is now part of the BOINC Project, which includes several distributed computing projects, SETI@home being only one of them.

The BOINC main page is here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

The page listing BOINC projects is here:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php
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An Atlas of the Universe has some great links
New address: An Atlas of the Universe

(The author hasn't posted lately; I'll email and ask for an update to the original.)
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Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center, Physics, Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrobiology

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Calculators, Applets, Spreadsheets,
and where Applicable includes: Courses, Manuals,
Handbooks, Simulations, Animations, Videos, etc.

Currently the Calculators On-Line Center contains
over "23,785" Calculators & Spreadsheets,
over "3,710" Courses, Lectures, Manuals, Handbooks,
& "1,000's" of Movies, Videos, Simulations & Animations
Martindale's site seems to be operated by an individual -- Jim Martindale -- who likes providing helpful references. One of many sections listed on the front page:

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Science Overview
Time, Measurement
Fundamental Particles
Chemicals/Biochemical Databases
Periodic Tables & Physics Databases
Lab Manuals, Guidelines, MSDS
Radiation, Radioactivity
Climatology, Meteorology, Weather
Geeky goodness. Mmm.

For physics:

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Physics Center
Examples: Fundamentals, 1st & 2nd Year
Accelerators, Chaos, Electromagnetics
Fields, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Groups,
...Quantum Condensed Matter Field Theory, etc.
Magnetics, Neutrons, Phy. of Music
Atomic, Molecular & Optical, Geophysics
High Energy, Mathematical, Nuclear, Plasma
Solid State, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity
Sports Physics, Statistical Mechanics
Thermodynamics, Physics Databases
Did someone say "astronomy"?

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Astronomy, Astrophysics
& Astrobiology Center
Examples: Picture of the Day, 1st-4th Year
Asteroids/Comets, Earth, Extrasolar Planets
Space Missions, Stars, Nebulae & Galaxies
Space Weather, Solar Activity, Catalogues,
Telescopes, Observatories & HST, Sky Charts
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www.liftport.com has a rather good FAQ and a very extensive archive of forum about the space elevator and related topics. Some of the details are likely wrong, but that likely is true of all sources of information.
www.spacesolarpower.wordpress.com has a mostly correct forum about solar power satellites and related topics. Neil
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Black Holes FAQ
also
The Usenet Physics FAQ
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Virtual trips to black holes and neutron stars
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