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Revision as of 21:01, 5 November 2008
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 lesson 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 Topic: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.
Improvement drive
These pages are in need of expansion and improvement:
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Divisions
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- Amateur_astronomy
- Basic_Astronomy
- Astrophysics - The study of physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature, chemical composition) of astronomical objects.
- Astrobiology - The study of the advent and evolution of biological systems 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.
- Cosmology - The study of the origin of the universe and its evolution. The study of cosmology is theoretical astrophysics at its largest scale.
- Galactic astronomy - The study of the structure and components of our galaxy and of other galaxies.
- Extragalactic astronomy - The study of objects (mainly galaxies) outside our galaxy.
- Stellar astronomy - The study of the stars.
- Planetary sciences - the study of the planets of the Solar System.
- Archaeoastronomy
- Astrochemistry
- Astrosociobiology
- Astrophilosophy
- Astromedicine
- Astronautics
Courses
- Waiting for you to create one. Wikademia is a developing project, and depends on its contributors (anyone can contribute) for its content. Whether you call it a "course" or a "learning project", you can organize it here. Courses/Learning projects can be organised from a new "Topic" page, or directly in the Main namespace (ie without any prefix). We encourage you to take the initiative and add your materials here!
- Follow these links to learn how: Intro to Learning Projects • The Main Learning Projects Page • Credentials, diplomas & provenance • Policies • Learning • Education
All proposed courses can be found at Topic:Astronomy/Courses
Research projects
- Learning project: Astronomy Project - students access public astronomy databases and explore outer space.
- Astrophysics Source Code Library = ASCL
- BoomCode - GPL Type II supernova collapse code
Creating content
Get to work writing courses! Simply make a link to the name of the course and start writing!
See: Wikiversity:Naming conventions
School news
- August 17, 2006 - School founded!
Things to do
Here are some things you can do at this department...
- Cleanup all astronomy related pages and organize them
- Link to information about supernova/asteroid online searches
- Link to data sources
- Link to amateur astronomers societies (and get amateur astronomers to this page)
- 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:Roadrunner
- User:Suto
- User:Mu301
- User:Glenneth
- User:John Dough
- Muhammad - EEE, IUT, Bangladesh
- Dr Xavier del
- User:Jolie
Are you interested in Astronomy? Would you like to create instruction material and help out with people studying this topic? 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.
Resources
Know any good resources for scholars of this topic? Add them here!
Wikiresources
See also
External links
- Microlensing targets - exoplanet searches
- The status of warp drive (faster than light travel)
- 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
- 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
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