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Find the Sun

Click on the last game "Find the Sun" to learn about shadows. A very simple but beautifully illustrated site. Unfortunately a subscription site.

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http://www.sparkisland.com/public/activities/find_the_sun/index.html#

Simulation of The Textbook Sunset

The red Sun sets first, leaving the green image for a second or so. Clearly Dietze was right: refraction in the Standard Atmosphere cannot produce a green flash the unaided eye can see.

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http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/simulations/std/stdatmSS.html

Comprehend the Cosmos

Nicely presented site on the sun and its planets, includes a hyperlinked dictionary of terms, games and a teacher area.

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http://library.thinkquest.org/C002416/

Hans Albrecht Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906 - ) work led to the discovery of the reactions which supply the energy in the stars. The most important nuclear reaction in the brilliant stars is the carbon-nitrogen ...

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http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1967/bethe-bio.html

How the Sun Works

An excellent brief description of how the Sun functions which starts at a low level and slowly progresses. Part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. A very good informative site.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/sun.htm

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) In 1930 he showed that a star of a mass greater than 1.4 times that of the Sun had to end its life by collapsing into an object of enormous density unlike any ...

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http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history//Mathematicians/Chandrasekhar.html

Osborne Reynolds

Osborne Reynolds (1841 - 1911) early work was on magnetism and electricity but he soon concentrated on hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He also worked on electromagnetic properties of the sun and of ...

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http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history//Mathematicians/Reynolds.html

BrainPOP - Sun

A very good animated movie and quiz from BrainPOP. Contains good information about the sun but is light on detail. This site allows you to watch two movies a day before subscribing.

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http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/sun/index.weml