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Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics 	http://oyc.yale.edu/astronomy/frontiers-and-controversies-in-astrophysics/content/class-sessions 	Yale University 	non-degree 	Professor Charles Bailyn	Browser 	3 particularly interesting areas of astronomy: Extra-Solar Planets, Black Holes, and Dark Energy	English 	
Hands-On Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-409-hands-on-astronomy-observing-stars-and-planets-spring-2002/	MIT 	non-degree 	James Elliot 	Browser 	Start anytime 	English 	Undergraduate
Introduction to Astronomy 	http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-282j-introduction-to-astronomy-spring-2006/ 	MIT 	non-degree 	Prof. Saul Rappaport 	Browser 	Start anytime 	English 	Undergraduate
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Illustris Project. 2014. Illustris Project. (We hope that the Illustris simulation will be of interest to scientists of all disciplines as well as to the broader non-scientific community. Below we describe the 'what', 'why', and 'how' of the project at a level accessible to those without any expertise in physics, astronomy, or computer science). Cambridge, MA: illustris-project.org.
Matussek, Dirk. 2010. Your night sky map in the internet AstroViewer.
Sawicki, Alan. 2010. ASTRONOMY - FREE SOFTWARE.
Worldwide Telescope. 2010. Worldwide Telescope. (Enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky). Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research.
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gerddie. 2011. Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve. July 23. science.slashdot.org.
Hipschman, Ron. 2012. How to View an Eclipse. San Francisco, CA: Exploratorium.
Chandra X-ray Center. 2013. M60-UCD1: NASA's Hubble and Chandra Find Evidence for Densest Nearby Galaxy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Powell, Alvin. 2013. [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/02/astronomically-close/ Astronomically close
CfA scientists say Earth-like planets are galactic neighbors]. February 6. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Gazette.
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Doherty, Paul. 2012. Dark Matter. (a talk given on February 11, 2012 by Paul Doherty, Senior Scientist at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, also known as Patio Plasma in SL, and director of The Splo Museum (in SL). A brief overview of what we know about dark matter, some history of when the idea arose, and current experiments designed to detect or otherwise figure out what dark matter is. "I gave a lecture this morning in the virtual world of Second Life for the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics on Dark Matter. I used images as well as constructing 3D interactive objects. At the beginning of the presentation I am referring to 3 boxlike objects one black representing dust in visible light, one red representing dust glowing in the infrared. And one transparent representing Dark Matter, which is't actually dark, it is transparent. I'll upload an image of the boxes.") San Francisco, CA: The Exploratorium.
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Astro Pic Of The Day. 2013. Astro Pic Of The Day. twitter.com/apod
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Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe. 2014. Astronomers create first realistic virtual universe: Computer simulation Illustris can re-create 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. Cambridge, MA: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/05/astronomers-create-first-realistic-virtual-universe/.
The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus. 2012. The Rarest Eclipse: Transit of Venus. (Venus Transit Live Webcast from San Francisco's Exploratorium). June 5. San Francisco, CA: The Exploratorium.
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Chandra X-ray Center. 2013. Chandra X-ray Center. (Operated for NASA by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory). Cambridge, MA: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Galaxy Zoo. 2013. Galaxy Zoo. (Experience a privileged glimpse of the distant universe, observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Hubble Space Telescope. Classify Galaxies: To understand how galaxies formed we need your help to classify them according to their shapes. If you're quick, you may even be the first person to see the galaxies you're asked to classify.). galaxyzoo.org.
Venus Crosses the Sun. 2012. Venus Crosses the Sun. spaceplace.nasa.gov/venus-transit/.
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