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Brush up on your knowledge of astronomy with these classroom-oriented resources. All educators' overviews, including instructions and suggestions for using the resources, have been moved to the Teaching tools section of the site.

Black holes

• Tales of … Key events in the history of Centaurus A

Comets

• Q&A: Comets
• Graphic Organizer: Comparison of comets and asteroids

Electromagnetic spectrum / Light and color

• Q&A: Light, color, and the electromagnetic spectrum

Galaxies

• Fast Facts: Cartwheel Galaxy
• Fast Facts: Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
• Fast Facts: Warped Galaxy
• Fast Facts: Whirlpool Galaxy

• Q&A: Galaxies

• Graphic Organizer: Comparison of spiral, elliptical, and irregular galaxies

• Graphic Organizer: Comparison of the Warped Galaxy and the Whirlpool Galaxy

Gravity

• Q&A: Gravity

Hubble Space Telescope

• Q&A: Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Math: Statistics

• Q&A: Statistics (Sampling section)

• Q&A: Statistics

Solar system

• Fast Facts: The Sun
• Fast Facts: Mercury
• Fast Facts: Venus
• Fast Facts: Earth
• Fast Facts: The Moon
• Fast Facts: Mars
• Fast Facts: Jupiter
• Fast Facts: Saturn
• Fast Facts: Uranus
• Fast Facts: Neptune
• Fast Facts: Pluto

• Q&A: Our solar system

• Tales of … Dust storms seen on Mars

• Graphic Organizer: Comparison of comets and asteroids

Stars and stellar evolution

• Fast Facts: Eagle Nebula
• Fast Facts: Eskimo Nebula
• Fast Facts: Helix Nebula

• Tales of … Key events in the history of Supernova 1987A
• Tales of … A history of the Crab Nebula
• Tales of … The glorious end of stellar life

• Graphic Organizer: Comparison of the Eagle Nebula and the Eskimo Nebula

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