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Additional Resources

Below are some resources related to the galaxies beyond the Milky Way:

  1. Hubblesite has an online exploration called "Galaxies Galore [1]."
  2. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has produced an "Active Galaxy Education Unit [2]."
  3. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (that is, GALEX) has a few activities for teachers [3].
  4. You and your students can contribute to a project to classify galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with Galaxy Zoo [4].  This has been incorporated into a newer resource from the SDSS team called Voyages [5], and there is a Voyages activity on galaxy shapes [6].
  5. Phil Plait's Crash Course Astronomy has "Galaxies, Part 1 [7]" and "Galaxies, Part 2 [8]".

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Links
[1] http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/galaxies-galore/
[2] http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/agn.php
[3] http://www.galex.caltech.edu/education/teachers.html
[4] http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
[5] http://voyages.sdss.org/
[6] http://voyages.sdss.org/galaxy-shapes/
[7] https://youtu.be/I82ADyJC7wE
[8] https://youtu.be/_O2sg-PGhEg