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Enlightened

A site from the ThinkQuest competition about light giving brief descriptions of electromagnetic radiation from radio waves and microwaves to x rays and gamma rays.

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http://library.thinkquest.org/C002213/

COBE Satellite

NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite was launched to explore the cosmic microwave background radiation. It has discovered fluctuations in that radiation which are important to big bang ...

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/bkg3k.html#c6

X-rays

Part of the Physics 2000 site which uses JAVA applets in a section called Einstein's Legacy to simply explain what X-rays are. This is a useful site for school students with simple well written ...

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http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/xray/index.html

Gamma-rays

A simple introduction to gamma rays and their uses in space science.

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http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/12_gammarays.html

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

The site explains the basic of the electromagnetic spectrum and the various wavelengths of which it is composed (Radio Waves, Microwaves , Infrared, the Visible Spectrum, Ultraviolet, Gamma Rays, ...

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http://www.purchon.com/physics/electromagnetic.htm

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

NASA page about electromagnetic waves with descriptions of such waves and their uses.Covers radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet (UV), x-rays and gamma rays.

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http://missionscience.nasa.gov/ems/index.html
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Compton Scattering

Arthur H. Compton observed the scattering of x-rays from electrons in a carbon target and found scattered x-rays with a longer wavelength than those incident upon the target.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/comptint.html#c1

NASA | What Are Gamma Rays?

A short video from NASA explaining gamma rays.

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http://www.youtube.com/embed/PPlrtgilgK8?rel=0

Philipp von Lenard

Philipp von Lenard (1861 - 1947) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his important work on cathode rays. Lenard's work on cathode rays served as a basis for the development of the ...

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1905/lenard-bio.html

Cosmic Microwave Background

Detailed information on this topic and why it is important.

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http://cmb.physics.wisc.edu/tutorial/cmb.html
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