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Frontiers: New Horizons in Space
Recommended
for
Upper Elementary Grades thru College
This program is a three-part exploration of current topics in astronomy. The program begins with a brief look at the sky as the ultimate frontier. We then move to our solar system where you see a recap of planetary probes and descriptions of the latest satellite missions such as Magellan to Venus, the Mars Orbiter, Cassini to Saturn and Titan, and the Comet Rendezvous Flyby. Finally, you look at a future lunar observatory and move on to part two of the program with a review of different star types that can be seen in the constellation Orion. From here, the program proceeds to the properties of light that make discoveries about distant celestial objects possible. You will see both early and recent space-based observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, the Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility, and the Gamma Ray Observatory. You will look at what these new observatories will explore such as star birth, planetary systems beyond our own solar system, star death, missing mass, and galactic evolution. Finally you will discover that galaxies are receding from each other. In part three, we will explore the Doppler shift and the implications of the expanding universe. You will also discover the hiss of background radiation which supported many astronomical theories.
SC-04-2.3.4 – The Sun appears to move across our sky.
SC-05-2.3.5 – The Earth, Sun, planets, moons, and other smaller bodies make up our solar system.
SC-06-2.3.1 - Objects in the solar system move in regular and predictable motions.
SC-HS-2.3.2 – The universe was formed by the Big Bang. Hydrogen clumps grew into stars.
SC-HS-2.3.3 – Stars that explode at the end of their lives send out heavy elements.
SC-HS-2.3.4 – Stars have life cycles and generate more complex elements.
SC-HS-4.6.2 – Changes in the frequency of starlight can indicate its relative motion.