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Gale Interactive Science: Astronomy

Mars Model
3-dimensional 3-dimensional views of the planet. Click into the frame to move the layers around for a better look inside!
Sun Model
3-dimensional views of the Sun. Click into the frame to move the layers around for a better look inside!
Solar System Model
3-dimensional rendering of the Sun, planets & moons, and rocky bodies that orbit them.

Science (Gale Interactive)
Visual online learning tool for biology, chemistry, earth science, and human anatomy. Digital content is selected from authoritative resources and paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience.

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Films on Demand
Content: Educational videos, including documentaries and feature films.
Useful Feature: The ability to share a short segment from a video.
Contains documentaries, educational videos and news footage from a variety of producers such as A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, and Bill Moyers.
Android app | iOS app
For faculty course support
Adding a Films on Demand film to your Canvas site is easy, because Canvas "talks" to FOD. You can find your film in the FOD database while editing a Canvas page. To do this:
Click on Tools / Apps / View All / Films on Demand
Search for the perfect film. When you find it, click Embed. Try size medium first.
Public Performance Rights
Any film from this collection may be shown in classes, both in-person and online, and at campus events.

Just the Facts Astronomy Essentials Series by Cerebellum Corporation
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2013
Sky Candy by Trader Multimedia Open a window to the real universe in Sky Candy, a unique 18 part series that explores topics ranging from globular clusters to dark energy, Andromeda to Mars, and star birth to star death.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2020
Telescope: Hunting the Edge of Space by NOVA In this two-part special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope, has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. What began as a curiosity—two spectacle lenses held a foot apart—ultimately revolutionized human thought across science, philosophy, and religion.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2010
Seven Ages of Starlight by BBC Worldwide Learning Stars are at the heart of all life. Humans and all other life forms on our planet—from bacteria in the top of our atmosphere to the creatures in the darkest depths of our oceans—depend on our very own star, the Sun.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2012
PBS Space Time by Knowledgemotion Have you ever asked “what is beyond the edge of the universe?” PBS Space Time explores the outer reaches of space, the craziness of astrophysics, the possibilities of sci-fi, and anything else you can think of beyond Planet Earth with our astrophysicist host: Matthew O’Dowd.
Call Number: Streaming Video
Publication Date: 2018

Youtube & Other Free Streaming Video Platforms

The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made from TED Talks
Humans have been studying the stars for thousands of years, but astrophysicist Juna Kollmeier is on a special mission: creating the most detailed 3-D maps of the universe ever made. Journey across the cosmos as she shares her team's work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, imaging millions of stars, black holes and galaxies in unprecedented detail. If we maintain our pace, she says, we can map every large galaxy in the observable universe by 2060. "We've gone from arranging clamshells to general relativity in a few thousand years," she says. "If we hang on 40 more, we can map all the galaxies."
Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell from Big Think
In a profoundly informative and deeply optimistic discussion, Professor Michio Kaku delivers a glimpse of where science will take us in the next hundred years, as warp drives, teleportation, inter-dimensional wormholes, and even time travel converge with our scientific understanding of physical reality. While firing up our imaginations about the future, he also presents a succinct history of physics to the present.
A stellar history of modern astronomy from TED Talks
Astronomers once gazed upon the night sky and counted every star in the galaxy by hand. The process has evolved since then, but the thirst for celestial knowledge remains the same. Join astrophysicist Emily Levesque for an anecdote-rich jaunt through the technological history of photographing the cosmos and learn about the one constant that makes it all work: human curiosity.
Origins of the Universe 101 from National Geographic
How old is the universe, and how did it begin? Throughout history, countless myths and scientific theories have tried to explain the universe's origins. The most widely accepted explanation is the big bang theory. Learn about the explosion that started it all and how the universe grew from the size of an atom to encompass everything in existence today.

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PHYS - Astronomy: Videos & Interactives

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Map of Space from Domain of Science