Portal:Astronomy
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Welcome to the Department of Astronomy!
This is a relatively new Department at Wikiversity, and its growth depends on the participation of everyone who seeks to learn about astronomy. The basic philosophy of Wikiversity is to learn by doing. This is reflected in the content of lessons and activities. However, "learning by doing" means more than just reading a lesson and following the directions; hopefully you will participate in the process of creating lessons and sharing your experiences.
To get started try the lecture on Stellar evolution or the activity on Observational astronomy.
For a glimpse of some of the topics that we hope to cover in the future see the Portal:Astronomy/Courses.
If you have any questions about astronomy or requests for topics that you would like to learn, post them to the astronomy help desk.
Astronomy keynote lecture
Divisions
- Amateur astronomy - The study and observation of objects in space by non-professionals.
- Astrobiology - The study of the advent and evolution of biological systems in the universe.
- Astrochemistry - The detection, occurrence and explanation for atoms, molecules, ions, and compounds in the universe.
- Astrometry - The study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. Defines the system of coordinates used and the kinematics of objects in our galaxy.
- Astrophysics - The study of physics of the universe. Indepth discussion of the concepts and objects in the universe to someone who has a basic background in physics and mathematics.
- Basic astronomy - Basic Description and properties (luminosity, density, temperature, chemical composition) of the universe. Description of astronomical concepts without alot of required background in physics or mathematics.
- Cosmology - The study of the origin of the universe and its evolution. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at its largest scale.
- Extragalactic astronomy - The study of objects (mainly galaxies) outside our galaxy.
- Galactic astronomy - The study of the structure and components of our galaxy and of other galaxies.
- Radiation astronomy - Nearly all observationally obtained information in astronomy comes from performing observational astronomy by receiving and analyzing various forms of radiation with telescopes.
- Stellar astronomy - The study of the stars.
- Undeveloped Astronomy Departments - These are waiting for your input.
Courses
All proposed courses can be found at Astronomy/Courses
Only Course Material that is well developed is included below; please sign by the course if you are willing to teach or assist someone in learning this material
- Astrochemistry
- Introduction to the Planets
- Principles of radiation astronomy
- Radiation astronomy courses
- Solar astronomy
- Stars
- X-ray astronomy course
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Research projects
- Learning project: Astronomy Project - students access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.
- Astrophysics Source Code Library = ASCL
- Early telescopes - an original research effort to find and evaluate evidence that telescopes in some form have been in use well before 1609 (391 b2k).
Creating content
Get to work writing courses! Simply make a link to the name of the course and start writing!
See: Wikiversity:Naming conventions
Check the Stars/Courses, you can put a course together that meets your interests!
School news
- August 17, 2006 - School founded!
Things to do
Here are some things you can do at this department...
- Clean up Astrogeology and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
- Cleanup all astronomy related pages and organize them
- Link to information about supernova/asteroid online searches
- Portal:Radiation astronomy
- Link to data sources
- Link to amateur astronomers societies (and get amateur astronomers to this page)
- Clean up Astrohistory and move it to become a subpage of a supporting main page learning project.
- Load in the astrophysics source code library
- Create links at Wikipedia to related pages here
Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this school, you can list your name here (this can help small schools grow and the participants communicate better; for large schools it is not needed).
- User:Marshallsumter - since 14 October 2011 with Astronomy.
Are you interested in Astronomy? Would you like to create instructional material and help out with people studying this subject? Then be bold and start doing so! Play around; others will try not to bite. Sign up to be a participant by adding your username to this list, or just start editing Wikiversity anyway.
Inactive participants
- User:Mu301
- User:Roadrunner
- User:Suto
- User:Glenneth
- User:John Dough
- Muhammad - EEE, IUT, Bangladesh
- Dr Xavier del
- User:DeniseK
- User:Jolie
- User:Alphakristjan
- User:JessLance
- User:Kdreyer
- Tarun-Science 15:37, 21 December 2013(GMT) India
- Quinjica18:37, 06 February 2016 (GMT) Angola
Resources
{{Radiation astronomy resources}}
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!
Wikiresources
See also
External links
- Microlensing targets - exoplanet searches
- Warp Drive, When? - NASA research on Breakthrough Propulsion Physics
- Mars Simulation Project
- NASA Astrobiology Institute
- Journal article database
- Preprints database
- Astrophysics source code library
- Dick McCray's Astronomy Hypertext
- Introduction to General Astronomy - webcast from Berkeley
- Amateur Astronomy - wiki journal
- Google Sky Online
- Help NASA categorize pictures taken of Mars
Careers
Papers
Related news
- 6 July 2015 NASA Satellite Camera Provides “EPIC” View of Earth
- June 2008 Arecibo Joins Global Network to Create 6,000-Mile Telescope
- March 2008 Alpha Centauri May Have Earth-like, Habitable Planets
- September 2007 Scientists model hypothetical extrasolar planets
- April 2007 - Mexico may get its own space agency...
- April 2007 - Researchers find another potentially habitable planet...
- March 2007 - EU plans to explore Mercury.
- March 2007 - New study produces mathematical rules of galaxy formation.
- February 2007 - Astronomers are finally able to analyze the atmosphere of exoplanets