CHIPS Education and Public Outreach



The Origins Education Forum	Universe! - An Educational Forum

Useful Links:

The Interstellar Medium (ISM):

The Interstellar Medium: An Online Tutorial - The University of New Hampshire's Experimental Space Plasma Group - (http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/tof/Outreach/Interstellar/who.html)
The Interstellar Medium - University of Texas - (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/milkyway/ism.html)
Astronomy Hypertext book: Interstellar Medium - The Electronic Universe - (http://zebu.uoregon.edu/textbook/ism.html)
Ghostly Reflection in Pleiades Star Cluster (photos & animation - 1.6 MB mpeg) - Space Telescope Science Institute - (http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2000/36/animation.html)
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi - APOD - (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000521.html)

The Sun's Environment:

120 parsec Map - Rice University - (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://spacsun.rice.edu/~twg/pc120.html)

The Local Bubble and the Galactic Neighborhood - APOD - (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020217.html)

The Local Interstellar Cloud - APOD - (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020210.html)

Close Encounter with an Interstellar Cloud - University of Chicago - (http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/96/960609.solar.sytem.crash.shtml)

The Galactic Environment of the Sun - American Scientist - (http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/21173;jsessionid=baahGCykSxJeMC?fulltext=true )

Gas Attack - The Why Files - (http://whyfiles.org/017planet/gas_cloud2.html)

Supernovas Near the Sun:

A Provocative Theory on Ozone and Stars - The Augusta Chronicle - (http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/011202/tec_124-4053.shtml)
Recent Nearby Supernovae May Have Left Their Marks on Earth - Physics Today - (http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-5/p19.html)
Supernova poised to go off near Earth - New Scientist - (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2311)
Life Safe from Supernovas? - Daily InScight - (http://web.archive.org/web/20021214154124/http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/11262002/grapha.htm)