Session 2: Cosmic Survey
Links: (all external links will open up a new browser window)
Quizlet flashcard sets:
- Cosmic Survey: Flashcards | Scatter Game
- Large Numbers: Learn | Scatter Game
- Powers of Ten Names: Learn | Scatter Game
Really Large Numbers
- Interactive: Learn the names of really large numbers
- Names of large and small numbers with exponents
- The MegaPenny Project: Visualizing Large Numbers
Travel the Universe
- From Earth to the Hubble Deep Field from NASA and the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- The farthest we can see: The Hubble Deep Field Galaxies (zoomable)
- WMAP: The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) – also known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP), and Explorer 80 – is a spacecraft which measures differences in the temperature of the Big Bang's remnant radiant heat – the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation – across the full sky. 3D Model of WMAP
- Scale of the Universe 2!
Instructor: Alfia Wallace - Upcoming Sessions - About the Instructor