If a picture is worth a thousand words, then an interactive figure is worth even more. I have worked with a series of UC Davis undergraduates to produce these interactive tools for understanding a variety of astronomy concepts.
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Orbits Around a Spinning Black Hole by Luis Luna |
Spiral Galaxy Rotation Curve
Builder by Bethany Baldwin-Pulcini and Steven Hyatt |
Active Galactic Nucleus Explorer
by Alejandro Angulo, Sharon Morgan, and Jennifer Chen |
The Universe Is Expanding Everywhere, Not Just
Around Us by Rudy Huezo (Flash), Isabelle Ye (Javascript) |
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around a Schwarzschild black hole by Raihana Yarzada |
Ages of Stars and the HR Diagram by Melissa Loomis |
Elements Produced by Stars by Brandon Stewart, Margareta Borcic, Peter Lai, and Omar Peralta |
How We Know Objects Are Compact: The
Variability Argument by Alejandro Angulo, Taylor Goolsby, and Rudy Huezo |
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Special Relativity Graph Paper by David Wittman |
The Power of Compact Objects by Evan Angelico and Stella Sun |
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