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Counting Craters on the Hubble Space Telescope!
In this Hubble Space Telescope worksheet, students are given a photograph of the radiator recovered after being in space on the Hubble Space Telescope since 1993. Students solve 6 problems about the impacts that left craters on the...
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Seeing a Dwarf Planet Clearly: Pluto
In this dwarf planet learning exercise, students use images from the Hubble Space Telescope and they determine the scale of the image, they identify the largest features in the images, they calculate the volume of Pluto and they create a...
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The Oscillation Period of Gaseous Spheres
In this oscillation period worksheet, students read about how the force of gravity effects the oscillation of bodies. Students use two given formulas to identify the oscillation period of the sun, the Earth and a neutron star.
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Hinode Studies Loopy Sunspots!
In this sunspots and magnetic fields worksheet, students read about the satellite images taken showing 'loopy' patterns from solar gases and the magnetic fields on the sun. Students solve 2 problems including finding the volume of a...
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The Heliopause...a question of balance!
In this heliopause learning exercise, students read about the balance between the solar wind pressure and the interstellar medium pressure and the relationship between these two pressures. They are given an inquiry problem and enter the...
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How Many Quasars Are There?
For this quasars worksheet, students read about how astronomers can detect quasars by their luminosity. Students use a given equation to solve 4 problems including finding quasar magnitude, determining the number of quasars with given...
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The Io Plasma Torus
In this plasma torus learning exercise, students solve 5 problems including finding the dimensions of the Io torus, determining the formula for the volume of a torus, finding the actual volume of the Ion torus and finding the amount of...
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Modeling a Planetary Nebula
In this modeling a planetary nebula learning exercise, students use a diagram to calculate the intensity at different radii from the center of the nebula. Students use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the distance between two points...
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Magnetic Storms
In this magnetic storms activity, students use a given formula for the volume of a ring-shaped disk to solve 2 questions about the total atoms present in the disk and the total mass of the Ring Current.
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XZ Tauri and The Super CME!
In this XZ Tauri and coronal mass ejections worksheet, high schoolers use 3 photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to solve 4 problems. They find the scale of the images, they determine the number of kilometers the XZ Tauri...
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Black Hole Power...X
In this power of black holes worksheet, students solve 6 problems including finding the surface area of a black hole, determining the amount of matter in the black hole shell, finding the rest mass energy and determining the time it...
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Introduction to Radiation Shielding
In this radiation shielding worksheet, learners use a graph of the dosage of radiation versus the thickness of aluminum shielding using data from the MIR spacecraft and ISO satellite to solve 3 problems. They determine how thick the...
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Hubble Spies Colliding Asteroids!
In this colliding asteroids instructional activity, students are given the equation to determine the collision time for asteroids. Students use this equation to solve 4 problems including finding the area of a cross-section through the...
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Spitzer Explores a Dying Star
In this dying star worksheet, students read about the Spitzer Space Telescope that detected the dying star-Messier-57. Students solve 6 problems including determining the total power produced by the dying star, they find the total mass...
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Super-Fast Solar Flares!
In this solar flares worksheet, students observe a sequence of figures of a solar flare observed in 2003 from the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager satellite. Students solve 6 problems including finding the scale of each...
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Spitzer Explores a Dusty Young Star
In this stars worksheet, students read about the Spitzer space telescope and they solve 5 problems about the mass, size, and power of dust grains and interstellar mediums detected by the telescope.
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Water on the Moon!
In this moon worksheet, students read about the data collected from the Deep Impact/EPOXI and Cassini missions to the moon that have detected the presence of hydroxyl molecules under the moon's polar craters. Students solve 4 problems...
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Lunar Crater Frequency Distributions
In this lunar crater frequency worksheet, learners use the power-law function to solve 3 problems related to the number of craters in a given area. They integrate the power-law function to determine their answers.
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Black Holes-The Event Horizon
In this black hole worksheet, students read about the three parts to a black hole including the Event horizon, the interior space and the singularity. Students solve five problems which involve using a given formula for the Schwarzschild...
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Are U Nuts?
In this conversion learning exercise, students solve 9 problems where they convert from one unit of measurement to another using a given table with conversion factors.
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Atmospheric Shielding from Radiation II
In this radiation worksheet, students calculate the total shielding along several specific directions defined by the angles. This worksheet has 3 problems to solve.
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The Apollo-11 Landing Area at High-Resolution
In this moon crater activity, students use images of craters taken from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine the size of the craters. This activity has 6 problems to solve.
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LCROSS 'Sees" Water on the Moon!
In this moon activity, students calculate information about the crater that was created by a massive impact. This activity has 3 problems to solve.