Site Map

1. Space Weather
2. News about the Sun
3. Cool Videos
4. The Sun's Vital Statistics
5. Exploring the Sun
6. Sunspots
7. Helioseismology and Solar Physics
8. Multicultural Aspects
9. The Sun-Earth Connection
10. Solar Missions and Telescopes
11. Images of Today's Sun
12. Collections of Solar Images and Data
13. Pictures of the Day & Cool Solar Imagery

1. Scientific Images
2. Photography
3. Images by Artists
4. Poetry
5. Literature
6. Music

1. Indigenous American
2. Australian Aborigine
3. Mesopotamia
4. Judaeo-Christian
5. Other Cultures
6. Ancient Astronomers (archaeoastronomy)
   • Includes Newgrange, the Sundagger, the Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Sonehenge, the Aztec Sun Stone calendar, Maya astronomy, Native American astronomy, rock art, building a modern sunwheel, etc.

• Glossary
• The Sun's Vital Statistics

1. Build your own Spectroscope
   • "All About the Sun" Study Guide (grades 5-8)
   • "All About the Sun" Study Guide (grades 2-4)
2. Effects of the Sun on our Planet
   • Detect the Sun's Effect on the Earth's Magnetosphere by AM Radio Reception. (grades 9-12)
   • Build a Greenhouse (grades 5-8)
   • Plant Growth and Evaporation (grades 2-4)
3. What is Ultraviolet Light?
   • UV Beads Experiment, Advanced (Grades 9-12; PDF)
   • Experiments with UV beads, Sunglasses and Sunscreen (grades 5-8)
   • UV Beads Experiment (grades 2-4)
4. Retrieving Solar Images
   • Sunspot Data Recording Worksheet
   • Latitude/Longitude Grids
   • About the Images
   • Solar Magnetograms
   • The MDI Instrument (SOI page)
   • SOHO Daily IMages
   • Sample Images
   • A Completed Sunspot Data Recording Worksheet
   • Information for Teachers
   • Pointers to other sources for images
5. The Spinning Sun
   • Pointer to activity on getting solar data
   • Estimating the Sun's Rotation Rate
   • Calculating the Sun's Angular Velocity
   • Pointer to other web page about solar rotation
   • Galileo's Sunspot Drawings (includes animations)
   • Why Galileo's Sunspots Didn't Always Move Horizontally
6. Sunspot Races
   • Pointer to page on getting data
   • Pointer to other sites with images
7. Observing the Sun
   • Projecting the Sun
   • Eyes on the Skies Remote Solar Telescope
   • Looking at the Sun through a Telescope
   • Observing the Sun in H-Alpha
   • Solar Eclipse Observing Exercizes
   • Solar Eclipse Information
   • Solar Eclipse Paths
   • Daily Sunspot Drawings at Mt. Wilson
   • Galileo's Sunspot Drawings
8. Magnetism and the Sun
   • Introduction
   • Magnetic Force
   • Magnetic Energy
   • Magnetism on the Sun (includes pointers to information about magnetic reconnection, plasma, sunspots, faculae, flares prominences, and coronal mass ejections)
   • Pointers to related web-based material related to magnetism and solar physics
   • Bibliography related to magnetism and solar physics
9. Hidden Pictures
   • Pointers to information about the Sun's photosphere, granulation
   • Solar Oscillations Video
   • Optical Illusions on Mars
   • Pointer to another lesson on Convection
10. Interview Mr. Sol
    • A sample Interview with Mr. Sol by Robert J. Nemiroff
11. A Sun-Centered Physics collection of activities from Goddard Space Flight Center.
12. Are Sunspots Really on the Sun?
    • Sunspot Speed Graph
    • How Galileo Proved those Spots were on the Sun
    • Galileo's Mathematical Proof
    • How Wilson Proved those Spots were on the Sun
    • Pointer to Sunspot Perspective Experiment
    • Pointers to information on Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner
13. Solar Music (an NOAO activity)
    • Pointer to Solar Music -- Using helioseismology to see inside our Sun (an updated version of this activity, in PDF)
14. The Singing Sun
    • Solar sounds website where one can listen to various formats of the sounds of the Sun
    • Introduction to Helioseismology
    • Helioseismology Beginner's Bibliography
    • Heleio- and Asteroseismology (Aarhus University)
    • Helioseismology Introduction (GONG)
    • Solar Music activity from NOAO
15. Quick Quizzes
    • Size & Temperature Comparison Quiz
    • Galileo Challenge
    • Solar Granulation Quiz
    • Sunspot Quiz
    • All quizzes include pointers to various definitions and explanations
16. The Sun on Earth
    • Description of the Sun-Earth Connection, includes many references to other sites
    • Auroras
    • Rainbows
    • Sunrise, Sunset
    • Global Warming
    • Sun in Nature (flowers, animals, etc.)
17. Building a Simple Sundial (Exploratorium)
18. Art Based on Science
19. Solar Art, Music, Literature, Poetry
    See "Solar Art" above
20. Multicultural Interpretations
    See "Solar Folklore" above
21. Global Warming (includes many pointers to other resources)