george lodes big bang therory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqD1GnTEPI

The Big Bang

The Big Bang by Amity Parks and Abigail Ferguson.
Enjoy!

The Big Bang Theory

Here is the link to The Big Bang Theory presentation!

Tobey Adams and Mackenzie Irwin

Enjoy!

Here is our project on the Big Bang. PowerPoint created by Adam Suelmann, Jade Thomas, and Mitchell Lukens. Voice over done by Mitchell. To view the project click on the following link. https://youtu.be/HLoBQWcPxvU
Have a great summer!

Big Bang Group Project

Here is the group project on The Big Bang. Power point was created by Conner and the Voice over was done by Benjamin.

Unfortunately you will have to download the PowerPoint in order to view it. The audio is embedded in the slides, simply hover over the gray speaker on each slide and press the play icon.

http://www.screencast.com/t/P5NMKeG5Nl

Here is the presentation on The Big Bang by Drew Silverberg, Christopher Mitchell, and Tejash Patel. https://livemissouristate-my.sharepoint.com/personal/tap1996_live_missouristate_edu/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?guestaccesstoken=SBuDYz3fy%2biR2vhUsH9xJ%2bMBMOfT0ONVeM621XYjZOs%3d&docid=0801b1a05e7394e46b8c98c00c53142a3

Top Places for Stargazing

If anyone is interested, here are some excellent places for stargazing.
https://prezi.com/mkkw2pjorj-6/top-10-places-for-stargazing/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy
I created this Prezi for extra credit and thought I would share it with you all.

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

https://youtu.be/F58q3P3StU8

Dark Matter and Dark Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83z-PbS5hNg

Dark Matter and Dark Energy By Allison Engel and Emily Schmitz

http://screencast.com/t/cohXtnvnOvMg

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVFj1wq8e7Q

Dark Matter and Dark Energy Project

by Rick Raines, Deven Colbert, and David Fryling

http://www.screencast.com/users/RickRaines/folders/Astronomy/media/eb2a854f-103b-49d2-85b8-4c4fbceeea3b

Dark Matter & Dark Energy

http://prezi.com/heyj3igfbpas/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies

https://youtu.be/n_lvIbj7KPA

By Matt Reisner and Austin Huff

Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies

Here is our link! 

https://youtu.be/BOAqUmYB5gw

Emma Rathe, Molly Fowler, Molly Grotha

Our Galaxy and Other Galaxies by Brad Archer, Cole Christensen, and Justin Summers

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AIybaAcESZsj5-ns0C_zGlfp5xmV3HuHijWwIQVdHRk/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000

Our Galaxy & Other Galaxies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vcg1vZjII

Madeline McDonald & Courtney Poppell

White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes By: Caleb Camby, Eddie Scott, and Michael Thompson

Audio Version of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes by Dalton Cole and Katie Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61VwfOC0xo

Here is the audio version of the powerpoint for Dalton Cole and Katie Martin's project on White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Here is the presentation without audio:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pgDJDLVi8TIkIEuaZ3ZNQhVipgQbk5OTg3mBvvEr3v4/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Enjoy!!

White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes - By: Melanie Finster, Tyler Beato, and Jared Danielson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OjfOmcDz7c&feature=youtu.be

White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes -- by Rachel Williams & Mason Gaspard

https://youtu.be/krugypzZMTo

Death of a Low Mass Star - Miriah Fowler, Casey Ratliff, Dylan Collins

http://prezi.com/zpvsgcgelrpq/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Death of a Star by Wes Renfrow and Ryan Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7d1OFZOiw&feature=youtu.be

The Death of A Star - Alyssa Sproul, Ryan Kogut, and Nicole Larkin

Death of A Star

The Death of Low-Mass Stars- Kelli Heineck, Kathryn Milla, Ryleigh Watson

https://youtu.be/XK49jopUU3M

Exoplanets by Elisa Johnson and Jaylen Ray

https://prezi.com/9fbbr6t4h395/exo/

Exoplanets - Grace Oney and Nickolas Morris

Exoplanets - Prezi

Exoplanets By: Alex M., Chris W., & Beau M.

https://prezi.com/ppfy54ozbmgi/exoplanets/

Star Birth- Madeline Wiegers & Will Buford

https://youtu.be/8SJFd4whe6g

Star Birth by Kara Sutton and Keeli White

https://prezi.com/hypj3cdyoull/star-birth/

Star Birth Darian Frost and Trenton Turner with voiceover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyp3TtjVysk

Without audio:

https://prezi.com/oeu2azjjoq6v/star-birth/

Star Birth-Lauren Becker, Ky'Nishia Moss and Alexis Creamer

https://youtu.be/ISirKvqLYG4

Star Births by Haylea Stoker and Diana Bell

Star Birth, Erica Parker & Lindsay Brandt

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=36F2876725AAE9A!106&authkey=!AEAIJLjgw88WPJc&ithint=file%2cpptx

The Sun and the Stars Presentation by Abby Blaes, Frances Boyd, and Tori Leslie

https://youtu.be/MKO4T93gKeE

Sun and Stars- Dinwiddie and Forst

Sun and Stars: by Thomas, Travis and Wilson

"Sun and Stars"
By: Thomas Fischer, Travis Cameron, and Wilson Fulton

https://prezi.com/ezdnrjed1exs/the-sun-and-stars/

The Sun and Stars by Sydney Wilhelm and Allison Kortkamp

Telescopes by Delaney Armstrong and Shelby Whitaker

http://prezi.com/622v5mbu-amh/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Telescopes by Kayla Law, Kiernan Downing, and Morgan Partlow.

https://youtu.be/VnFgolfSyX0

Telescopes by Lindsey Dennis and Chelsey Tipton.

Motion, Gravity, and Einstein- Erin Carleton and Emily Villarreal

Light and Matter - Ashlynn Murray and Evan Rohde

Light and Matter (YouTube Link)

Mallory and Yutang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkAqL8_Acso

Motion, Einstein, and Gravity (The History of Thought on Gravity) - Frank Giddens & Nathan Haskenhoff

Motion, Gravity, and Einstein - Blake Johnson and Lyle Vanfossan

Einstein, Motion, and Gravity-Gavin Hester

The Copernican Revolution - Melissa Buerk and Sydney Bertalott

And here is a link to our video: The Copernican Revolution

The Copernican Revolution Presentation - Raj Patel and Josiah Rose

Here is a youtube link to our presentation!

https://youtu.be/jJBRahaGtOI

The Copernican Revolution

Link to our video below, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f88Nn5nU6E&feature=youtu.be





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f88Nn5nU6E&feature=youtu.be

Tycho Brahe

Since we learned about Tycho Brahe this week in class, I wanted to share this recent article about his life and death:


http://io9.gizmodo.com/5696469/the-crazy-life-and-crazier-death-of-tycho-brahe-historys-strangest-astronomer

Drew Scott and Ryan Devereux

https://youtu.be/pUJgM3uEeO0

Jovian Planets by Morgan Light, Aaliyah Williams, and Brandon Vandiver

New blog post on my research

Hi students - If you want to know a little bit more about my research, I was recently part of a project that had a press release.  You can read more about it here:  http://plavchan.blogspot.com/2016/01/micro-resonator-laser-frequency-combs.html

Terrestrial Planets; Noah Jermain, Braden Boatright, John Dickerson

Click on the link below to view our presentation! 

https://youtu.be/v4OH14a4MHA

Terrestrial Planets; Alex Wollard, Barri Wishne, and Parker Padgett

Click this link to see our project!

Ryan Engert and Brock Yocum Terrestrial Planet Project

Ryan Engert and Brock Yocum Project Link

Planet X in the News

Students, you have have heard about the "discovery" of a new "Planet X" in the news.  I wrote a blog post about it today on my new research blog.  Read it here:

http://plavchan.blogspot.com

Extra Credit idea

My wife passed along this astronomy-themed embroidery idea from Pinterest that you may be interested for extra credit ideas:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/223209725259362309

Also, there is a whole blog devoted to astronomy-themed fashion run by Emily, someone I went to graduate school with at UCLA:

http://www.startorialist.com/

Examples of presentations

AST 113 students:  Today in class at the end I briefly presented a demo on how to post to the class blog, and how to make a presentation with audio to share online.

Here are two examples of video presentations for this class on the Terrestrial Planets (what we will cover next week).   This will give you a good idea of what is expected in the course.

The first is a Powerpoint presentation that was made into a movie with an audio track added:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IyOmY4zek8

The second example is a Prezi presentation with audio added:

https://prezi.com/eqjrmpdrye9g/the-terrestrial/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Here is a Microsoft tutorial on adding audio to a Powerpoint presentation:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Record-a-slide-show-with-narration-ink-and-slide-timings-3dc85001-efab-4f8a-94bf-afdc5b7c1f0b

Here are two FREE tools for adding voiceovers to screen captures of presentations:

https://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
https://screencast-o-matic.com/home

Also, here are some Youtube tutorials on different ways of adding audio to a presentation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1tPMViAc94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJluqvstRcc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdj5Cfe2Hvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npMuCWOvmVE

Finally, here are some tutorials on posting to blogger.com and writing comments too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOaqJmmamzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDcwI2OdcQ

Link to the Course Website

Here is a link to the course website:

http://exo.missouristate.edu/ast/113/

Brightest Shining Supernova

Interesting news on MSN thought you might enjoy this.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/exploding-star-shines-brighter-than-any-supernova-seen/ar-BBod3Rl?ocid=ansmsnnews11

AST 113: Modern Astronomy Class Blog

Welcome to the Spring 2016 class blog for AST 113: Modern Astronomy at Missouri State University. Here we will post the class group projects (links from Prezi, or Google Slides, etc.) and other material, ask and answer questions. Keep the posts respectable for your classmates sake, and I'll moderate. - Prof. Plavchan