The Internet

The WWW in internet addresses stands for World Wide Web but some people say should be the World Wide Wait.  If you aren’t the surfing kind and want to go straight to the site of your choice and you’re interested in astronomy courses and getting some education then maybe you would like to try out these internet sites that were given in a recent Sky & Telescope article.

You can try interactive exercises that explore photometry, the inverse-square law of apparent brightness, and others, at the University of Oregon’s Virtual Laboratory.  The address is http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab.  You will need a web browser that runs “applets” to get full use of these facilities.

A good sampling of astronomy courses with online components is at http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/nas/chn/sitescol.html.  Browsing  through these links will give you  a feel for the range of Internet contacts from course information to online homework.

“Beginning Astronomy” http://www.physics.brown.edu/people/bantly/phys22.html  at Brown University features its own Usenet newsgroup.

There is a web site for middle and high school students that offers general astronomy tutorials at  http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/staff/jtroeger/astronomy.html

And one of the most complete sets of online astronomy lecture notes is at Bakersfield College  http://lsnt7.lightspeed.net/~astronomy/lecturenotes.html

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Did you hear ?

US space agency NASA faces a charge of trespass for landing its spacecraft on Mars. Two Yemeni men claiming ownership of the Red Planet have filed a claim with prosecutors in their country. They claim they inherited Mars from ancient ancestors.

Taken from the FINANCIAL MAIL

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