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Close Approaches: Astronomy Links for Asteroid Research & Halley's Comet

Explore web resources on asteroids & Halley's Comet for in-depth astronomy study. Dive into NASA's wide-field survey & learn about the massive stars in NGC3603 nebula.

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Close Approaches: Astronomy Links for Asteroid Research & Halley's Comet

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  1. Asteroid Close Approaches Written for Astronomy 360

  2. Web Links for asteroid research and Halley’s Comet • http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/close.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet#Orbit_and_origin

  3. NASA

  4. NASA

  5. NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer is now active

  6. M31

  7. A nebula containing young, massive stars is located 20,000 light-years away in the Carina spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. It contains a central cluster of huge, hot stars, called NGC3603 The cluster contains some of the most massive stars known.

  8. Halley is generally pronounced /ˈhæli/, rhyming with valley, or /ˈheɪli/ rhyming with daily,[15] but Edmond Halley himself probably pronounced his name /ˈhɔːli/ "Hawley", as in the word "hall".[16]

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