astronomy pictures of the year: 2003: news and views for your classroom robert j. nemiroff
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Astronomy Pictures of the Year: 2003:
News and Views for your Classroom
Robert J. Nemiroff
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Top Five NASA Imagesof all Time*
*Yes, it’s subjective!
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STS-1: First Shuttle Launch
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Apollo 17 Lunarscape: A Magnificent Desolation
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A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence
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M16: Stars from Eagle's EGGs
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Earth Rise
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Top Five APOD Imagesof all Time*
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Earth at Night
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M31: The Andromeda Galaxy
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Looking Back on an Eclipsed Earth
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The Big Corona
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Inside the Eagle Nebula
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Image Credits
• Top NASA: All NASA (no joke!)
• Top APOD: – Earth at Night: DMSP Satellites– M31: © Robert Gendler– Eclipsed Earth: © CNES– Big Corona: © Fred Espenak, NASA– Eagle Nebula: © AURA, NOAO, NSF
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Astronomy Pictures of the Year: 2003:
News and Views for your Classroom
Robert J. Nemiroff
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Why great new astronomy images are particularly useful in the classroom
• Great new astronomy images are – a hook to interest potential students in science
and/or Astro 101• Astronomy leads all sciences in cool images
– incite the curiosity of current students• Show a great synergy between beauty and discovery
– show how scientific knowledge evolves– can give overview of topics not covered in class
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Sources for Great New Astronomy Images on the Web
• News pages of major telescopes
– Example: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/
• Image galleries of major telescopes
– Example: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/
– Example: http://heritage.stsci.edu/
• space.com
• Sky & Telescope: http://skyandtelescope.com/news/
• Astronomy Magazine: http://astronomy.com/home.asp
• CNN Space: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/
• APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/
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How the images were chosen
• By APOD Editors from the 2003 APODs – RJN nearly awake, almost coherent– Yes, it’s VERY subjective
• Most likely to be included in a future astronomy textbook
• Most likely to interest students in Astro 101
• Images from this meeting most likely too new
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What is APOD? Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Web site started at NASA in 1995• Written & edited w/ Jerry Bonnell (USRA/NASA)• Features a different astronomy image every day • Mirror sites now translate APOD into most major
languages daily• Hypertext is “best link”, leverages the full web• Archive is encyclopedic and searchable
– Need an astronomy image? Good chance APOD’s got it!
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NOT in the Top 10
(But appeared on APOD in 2003 anyway)
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A New Constellation Takes Hold
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A Chicago Meteorite Fall
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Egging On the Autumnal Equinox
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Cool Amateur Pictures
(But still not in the top 10)
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An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
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Mars Rising Behind Elephant Rock
(One of Time Magazines Pictures of the Year 2003)
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Comet NEAT Approaches the Sun
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Sunrise Analemma
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A Mercury Transit Sequence
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Really Cool(But still not in the top 10)
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The Long Shadow of the Moon
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Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?
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Big Mars from Hubble
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Space Rock SQ222 Noticed After Pass
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The Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Stream
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Canis Major Dwarf: A New Closest Galaxy
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The Sun's Surface in 3D
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Composite Crab
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X-Rays from the Galactic Core
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Light Can Twist as Well as Spin
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Top 10 Astronomy
Pictures of the Year 2003*
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The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX
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Inside the Elephant's Trunk (from the Spitzer Space Telescope)
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The 2MASS Galaxy Sky
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Zooming in on the First Stars
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KamLAND Verifies the Sun
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Abell 1689 Warps Space
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The Andromeda Deep Field
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Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
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V838 Light Echo: The Movie
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WMAP Resolves the Universe
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2003 was another great year for astronomy!
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Image Credits and CopyrightsNot in the Top 10• A New Constellation Takes Hold
– Hugo E. Schwarz (CTIO), NOAO
• A Chicago Meteorite Fall– Ivan and Colby Navarro
• Egging on the Autumnal Equinox– Phil Plait aka “The Bad Astronomer”
Cool Amateur Pictures• An Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse
– Fred Bruenjes
• Mars Rising Behind Elephant Rock– Wally Pacholka
• Sunrise Analemma– Anthony Ayiomamitis
• A Mercury Transit Sequence– Dominique Dierick
Really Cool• The Long Shadow of the Moon
– J. Descloitres, MOTIS, NASA
• Will the Universe End in a Big Rip?– Illustration: Lynette Cook
• Big Mars from Hubble– J. Bell (Cornell) et al., STScI, NASA
• Space Rock SQ222 Notices After Pass– LONEOS Team, Lowell Observatory
• The Sagittarius Dwarf Tital Stream– Drawing: D. Martinez-Delgado (MPIA) etal.
• Canis Major: A New Closest Galaxy– R. Ibata (Strasbourg) et al. 2MASS, NASA
• The Sun’s Surface in 3D– G. Scharmer (ISP, RSAS), Lockheed-Martin
• Composite Crab– J. Hester (ASU) et al., Chandra, HST, NASA
• X-rays from the Galactic Core– F. Baganoff (MIT) et al., Chandra, NASA
• Light Can Twist as Well as Spin– M. J. Padgett et al. (Glasgow), Royal Society
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Image Credits and CopyrightsTop 10
• The Andromeda Galaxy from GALEX– GALEX Team, Caltech, NASA
• Inside the Elephant's Trunk– Spitzer Space Telescope Team, W. Reach (Caltech), JPL, Caltech, NASA
• The 2MASS Galaxy Sky– T. H. Jarrett et al., 2MASS
• Zooming in on the First Stars– Visualization: Ralf Kaehler (ZIB) & Tom Abel (Penn. State); – Simulation: Tom Abel (Penn. State), Greg Bryan (Oxford) & Mike Norman (UCSD)
• KamLAND Verifies the Sun– KamLAND Collaboration
• Abell 1689 Warps Space– N. Benitez (JHU), et al., ACS Science Team, HST, NASA
• The Andromeda Deep Field
– T. M. Brown (STScI) et al., ESA, NASA
• Large Sunspot Groups 10484 and 10486
– Juan Carlos Casado
• WMAP Resolves the Universe– WMAP Science Team, NASA
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Postscripts
• The Astronomy Picture of the Day website is available online at http://apod.nasa.gov/