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Sky Server: About Astronomy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from SkyServer provides the history of astronomy as well as links to mapping the sky, galaxies, cosmic structures and much more. Several pictures are given, and the article is medium in length.
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Milky Way

For Students 9th - 10th
Using light as our measuring stick in space, science site provides all types of fun facts using light years and seconds as a reference.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Molecular Expressions: Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

For Students 9th - 10th
Animation going from the Milky Way all the way down to inside an atom by powers of ten. This animation helps illustrate and quantify the powers of ten.
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Florida State University

Florida State University: Powers of Ten

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage from the Florida State University offers an applet with succeeding images, each "10 times bigger or smaller than the one preceding or following it," as a demonstration of exponential notation.
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NASA

Nasa: The Space Place

For Students 3rd - 5th
This site from NASA's Space Place is geared towards early elementary learners. It offers detailed instructions for crafts and activities related to space, games and a teacher resource area. Students can also ask an expert at this site.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (B. 1909)

For Students 9th - 10th
Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory and had just discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way when this photograph was taken, March 1936
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Astro Lab: Space, a Contemporary Vision of the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how our contemporary understanding of the universe came to be. This overview looks at the history of three main areas of study, namely space, time, and the arrangement of matter.

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