Mirror, Mirror on the Universe

Books

Abbot, Edwin A.: Flatland. Dover Publications, Inc., NY. 1952.

Branley, Franklyn M.: Space Telescope. New York: Harper Collins Children’s Books., 1985.

Burger, Dionys: Sphereland. Barnes and Noble Books, NY., 1965.

Fix, John D.: Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier. (2) Ch. 26. McGraw Hill, Boston, MA, 1999.

Freeman, Wendy: The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe. Scientific American, November 1992.

Kaufman III, William and Freedman, Roger: Universe. (28).W. H. Freeman and Company, NY, 1999.

Peebles, James E.; Schramm, David N.; Turner, Edwin L.; and Kron, Richard G.: The Evolution of the Universe, Scientific American, October 1994.

Scott, Elaine: Close Encounters: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1998.

Schaaf, Fred: Seeing the Sky: 100 Projects, Activities and Explorations in Astronomy. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc., 1990.

Stephens, Sally: Hubble Warrior. Astronomy, March 2000.

Voyage Through the Universe. Time-Life Books, Inc., Richmond, VA, 1998.

Web Sites

NASA SpaceLink: Hubble Space Telescope
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Space.Science/Origins/Hubble.Space.Telescope/

Exploratorium Observatory - Project Serendip; The Search for Life
http://www.exploratorium.edu/observatory/index.html

The NASA CERES Project - The Expanding Universe activity
http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/uni1.html

Space Kids - Participate in making astronomical observations. Take an interactive tour of the solar system.
http://spacekids.hq.nasa.gov/

Space Telescope Science Institute - Current Hubble Statistics, images, and activities
http://www.stsci.edu

Discovery Channel - Hubble Lesson Plans
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/hubble/index.html

PBS Teachersource™ Mathline - Activity on calculating a light year
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/space2/activity1.shtm