The stars
A Question of
Scale
From Quarks to Quasars
An interactive site. Choose 1m to start with and
then work up in powers of ten
The Life Cycle of Stars
Let Stellar Sam take you through the cycle of low
and high mass stars
The
Sun
The following 'Trip through the Sun' takes about 20 minutes. It contains
several MPEG movies
RADIOACTIVITY
Half-Life
Half-Life Simulation
You'll need a bag of 'atoms' for this
Carbon-14 Dating
Click here
for a research activity on radiocarbon dating
Virtual Dating
Sorry! You won't meet your perfect
partner while tackling this test but you will be challenged. It's hard
Radioactivity
Everything you wanted to know
The Infra-red Zoo
Enter the cool cosmos!
Electromagnetic Spectrum
X-rays and Gamma Rays: Uses and Dangers, Quiz
Scientists and the Atomic Bomb
Issues raised about the role of
scientists in the Manhattan Project
The Rutherford Experiment
The Classic Diffraction Experiment
Digital or Analogue
A quick guide
The Expanding Universe
Animation of the Doppler Shift and a picture of a real Sonic Boom
Your guide to the night sky
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Vital information on the waves that make up the em spectrum
Alternative summary
sheet for above task
Learn about different types of telescopes, the discoveries made with them and how they work.
The Scale of the Universe
Build a Solar System
Set
the size of the sun and see how the planets and their orbits compare
The Solar System
Eclipse
Movie
Fred's excellent Eclipse
Interactive Solar
System
Model created by Nick Bramhall
and Tom Pickard using
Visual Basic
Explore
the Solar System
Our solar system consists of
the sun, the nine planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. The applet
below shows the orbits and positions of the planets right now