Six Explorations of Modern Research in
Astronomy
This site contains six explorations into current
research being conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
For each project, you will be given the fundamental questions being
explored in the research. To understand how the project is being
pursued, you will need to piece together many scientific techniques and
theories.
For each project, you will be presented with the
fundamental science, current theories and models, and some of the data
and results currently available from HST. It will be your task to
put all the pieces together to understand how the research in being
pursued, what the results imply, and what remaining questions need to be
answered.
Each group of students will choose one topic to
explore. You will need to answer all questions posed in the
exploration, and consolidate your results in a PowerPoint
presentation. This presentation will need to:
| 1. Clearly explain the
objective of the research and the fundamental questions it seeks
to address.
2. Detail all the relevant science
necessary to understand the investigation.
3. Give a logical map for how the data will
be used to help answer the fundamental questions.
4. Summarize the current results and
data, posing new questions for the future. |
Your presentations should be brief (20 minutes),
clearly organized, and at a level appropriate for your peers.
