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University of Minnesota Astronomy Department

University of Minnesota Astronomy Department Home Page

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Welcome to the University of Minnesota Astronomy Department World Wide Web (WWW) Server located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota (USA). Here you will find information about the Department of Astronomy as well as links to various sites on the Internet. Enjoy.

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  • An Astronomy Deparment Directory is available here.
  • The Undergraduate degree requirements for this department are available for potential majors.
  • Potential Graduate Students and others may be interested in reading the Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Annual Report of this Department. This document lists ongoing research in the department and provides links to many abstracts of publications by department members.
  • The first-ever Astronomy class homepage. The Astronomy 8481 Homepage, presenting student's projects on Stellar Wind-Blown Bubbles, is online!
    Other astronomical WWW servers here at the U of MN include:

  • The Automated Plate Scanner (APS) group operates a WWW server. They provide an on-line catalog of objects taken from the digitized Palomar Sky Survey (POSS I) plates, with data such as positions, colors, type (star or galaxy), magnitudes to 22nd, and so forth.

  • The Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) has several movies on the supercomputing work done by members of this department.

  • You can also look at the work done by Tom Jones at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute (MSI). This movie (421244 bytes) shows a simulation of the destruction of a supersonic gas cloud, or "cosmic bullet". It starts out moving at Mach 10 and is 100 times denser than the surroundings. It is intended to help understand the behavior of ejected clumps inside supernova remnants.

    Other Information Maintained by this Site

    Here are some links to the other information we maintain at this site. Note: If you notice something that needs improvement, contact the Web Manager.

    Last update: Wed Mar 29 17:44:47 CST 1995

    This WWW Site maintained by Juan E. Cabanela / juan@ast1.spa.umn.edu