Exercises & Activities
Magnitudes Tutorial, in response to Feedback on April 10 [pdf]
Exoplanet Mad Libs, Mar. 18 [pdf]
Results of Feedback, Mar. 4 & 6 [pdf]
Results from Telescope Design Exercise, Feb. 25 [pdf]
Results of Feedback, Feb. 4 [pdf]
Results of Background Survey, Jan. 14 [pdf]
Exercise 1: What do you see in this NASA image of a region in the Small Magellanic Cloud?
(a) Write your name (last name, then first name) and UT EID on a piece of paper.
(b) Carefully examine this image, which color-codes several different kinds of light: purple is X-ray emission (observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory), the blue/green/red colors are optical light seen with the Hubble Space Telescope, and the deeper red is infrared radiation observed by the Spitzer Space Observatory.
(c) Find as many different kinds of astronomical objects and structures as you can, within this image. You need not restrict yourself to only the Cast of Characters as presented in class; a few additional types of structures are defined in the Box on p. 4 of the textbook. You can also suggest new types of structures you may notice and suspect as being another such category.
Turn your paper write-up at the beginning of class on Thursday, Jan. 16 - there will be a box to the left of the entrance door.
The original image, downloadable in various formats, is at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5569-sig13-002-Taken-Under-the-Wing-of-the-Small-Magellanic-Cloud