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• Fellows of the Royal Society
• Astronomers
• Uranus
• William Herschel
• Comet
• Caroline Herschel
• Meteor shower
• Herschel Space Observatory
• Meteorite
• Astronomy
• Science
• Space

Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland Observatory Open House Schedule Spring 2015 Our Open House program will continue this spring just as it has for the last 45+ years. Come see local astronomers give a short

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right33020 00 Supernova Chemistry Lab procedure Summary You are going to be observing the spectra of several different light sources and learning how this type of spectroscopy can be used to help astronomers tell what el

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• Gas discharge lamps
• Lighting
• Luminescence
• Signage
• Fluorescent lamp
• Color
• Incandescent light bulb
• Compact fluorescent lamp
• Light-emitting diode
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Spectroscopy

Exploring Volcanos and Geysers Across the Solar System For decades, astronomers thought that the only geologically active object in our entire solar system was Earth. During the last 50 years of spacecraft studies, we no

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• Volcanology
• Geyser
• Enceladus
• Volcano
• Io
• Cryovolcano
• Saturn
• Cassini–Huygens
• Geology
• Planetary science
• Planemos

53 Star Cluster Math Astronomers classify stars so that they can study their similarities and differences. A very common way to classify stars is by their temperature.

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• Stellar astronomy
• Universe
• Dark matter
• Star
• Stellar classification
• White dwarf
• Globular cluster
• Astronomy
• Matter
• Star types

Groups, Clusters and Individuals Astronomers study many different kinds of objects in space. Sometimes these objects contain many individuals that need to be tallied separately. The cluster of galaxies called Abell2218 i

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• Baryons
• Chemical elements
• Star
• Stellar astronomy
• Galaxy
• Neutron
• Milky Way
• Proton
• Hydrogen
• Physics
• Matter
• Chemistry

8 Name ________________________________ Objects in space move. To figure out how fast they move, astronomers use many different techniques depending on what they are investigating. In this activity, you will measure the

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• Plasma physics
• Astronomy
• Light sources
• Sun
• Corona
• Solar flare
• SN 1987A
• Supernova
• Speed
• Space plasmas
• Physics
• Astrophysics

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field – Counting Galaxies The eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) image was created by astronomers by combining thousands of images of the same spot in the sky. When the data from 2,000 images were careful

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• Physics
• Galaxy
• Hubble Deep Field
• Universe
• Big Bang
• Physical cosmology
• Space
• Astronomy

Cryo-testing the Webb Space Telescope ISIM The Webb Space Telescope, to be launched in 2014, will allow astronomers to see the first generations of stars that formed in the universe. The ISIM, or the Integrated

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• IP Multimedia Services Identity Module
• Dimensional analysis
• Measurement
• Mass
• Technology
• Physics
• European Space Agency
• James Webb Space Telescope

14 Name ________________________________ Astronomers can often make an estimate of what the interior of a planet looks like by carefully measuring the mass of the planet and its radius. They then create a model of the i

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• Structure of the Earth
• Moons of Jupiter
• Planemos
• Plate tectonics
• Crust
• Io
• Solar System
• Planet
• Mantle
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Space