Astronomy Exam Videos

The following YouTube videos should be helpful as you prepare for the 2nd Astronomy exam, scheduled for the week of Monday, December 13, 2010.

* NEW *

• NASAKids: Time Zones
• NASA Connect: Ancient Observations

• Simple video: tilt of the Earth and Seasons.
• Old Video explaining Latitude, Longitude and Time Zones
• Helpful Sing-Along: "Longitude and Latitude are easy if..."
• Why do we have Time Zones?

• Latitude and Polaris, using a paper plate
• The height (attitude) of the noon Sun, using a paper plate

How does Foucault's Pendulum show earth's rotation?

• Earth's Rotation: Focault's Pendulum (Coreolis Effect) Explained and demonstrated
• Focault's Pendulum at the South Pole
• Why does the Earth Spin?
• NOAA Video showing tilt of the Earth and Temperatures
• Boring but helpful video about the tilt of the Earth, The length of the day Solstices, Equinoxes, the Topics of Capricorn and Cancer, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles and how this is all related to the Seasons
• Amazingly slow but interesting story of longitude and logszzzzzzzZZZZZZZ...

* * How the Earth Formed==> Heat from the Core drives Plate Tectonics ==> Volcanoes * *

Origin of the Universe / The Big Bang

Formation of the Solar System (Neil deGrasse Tyson) (includes How Earth Got its Moon)
Size and Structure of the Solar System

Why does the Sun shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)

Phases of the Moon, a kids funky version

Bill Nye the Science Guy: Moon Phases and Baseball
Phases of the Moon, from New to Full to New (No descriptions)

Eclipses

July 1969: Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Land on the Moon

To Infinity, and Beyond!

Links for your Astronomy projects

Basic Info on the Planets, comets, asteroids, the sun, Pluto, Moons, Galaxies and more from NASA.gov

Happy B-Earthday!
This is the year of the Solar System, and this month we look at the Birth of Worlds

Individual Project Links: (More links coming)

• NASA's Solar System Exploration site: Most projects can find everything here, including Jupiter's Moon Europa, Saturn's moon Titan,
• Astronomy vs. Astrology:
  - Basic Astrology, Constellations and The Plane of the Ecliptic
  - PseudoScience
• Asteroids and other things that might hit the Earth
  - NASA's NEO (Near Earth Object) Program
  - Apophis - Scary Video (Dark Side of the Moon - HD), with pop-up notes,
  - Another Scary Video
  - Comet Shoemaker-Levy
  - Impact Craters - Chicxulub (Yucatan Peninsula) - NASA analysis
  - Is this related to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs? - BBC Article - K-T Extinction
• Black Holes
• Polaris & How to Use It - Make a sextant! - Youtube: How to Find Polaris
• Constellations
• Kepler
• Hubble
• 2012: NASA Q&A, Sky & Telescope,
  - Neil deGrasse Tyson on 2012
  - debunking Dec 21, 2012
• NOVA: Pluto Files - Why Pluto isn't a Planet
• NASA's Exoplanets site: 490 and counting
• Project Mogul (July 7, 1947, Roswell, New Mexico)