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A Walk Through Time
How do you measure time? A guided tour of the history of the measurement of time from ancient calendars and sun dials to modern day atomic clocks.
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Comprehend the Cosmos
Nicely presented site on the sun and its planets, includes a hyperlinked dictionary of terms, games and a teacher area.
Hits: 1247
How the Sun Works
An excellent brief description of how the Sun functions which starts at a low level and slowly progresses. Part of HowStuffWorks.com.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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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Polarizing Filter
An applet showing the effect of applying a filter to sun light reflected from water
Hits: 955
The Sun - a multimedia tour
The science of the sun and the influence it has on the solar system
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Upcoming and recent eclipses of the Sun and Moon
U.S. naval Observatory web page that lists details of recent and future solar and lunar eclipses, including maps and data sheets.
Hits: 1703
IPS - The Australian Space Weather Agency
Site containing a great deal of information about the sun and its effect on the earth.
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Haze-SPAN
These pages detail how to construct an electronic detector that can be pointed at the sun to quantify the amount of haze. A spreadsheet is also supplied to analyse the data.
Hits: 754
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