The newest Starry Night College OpenStax™ Edition integrates our hands-on desktop planetarium application, engaging simulations, labs, lessons, interactions, images and assignable exercises with the most complete digital space science learning environment available.
The Starry Night College OpenStax™ Edition is modern, flexible and compatible. It works with conventional PC/Mac computers, iPads, Android Tablets, Chromebooks and Surface Tablets. Starry Night College syncs with most every Learning Management System for easy assessment, assignment provisioning and grading.
What Makes Starry Night College OpenStax™ So Effective:
Easy-to-use, accurate and customizable tools for proper visualization
More than 75 assignable exercises
13 comprehensive Labs
A powerful simulator with complete time, distance & location control
Thousands of interactions, images and simulations
More than one thousand multiple-choice questions
Browser-accessibility on any type of computer, tablet or Chromebook
Auto updates - new discoveries, latest science, topical events
Free instructor access with student and classroom acquisition
Low-cost student access
Fast and easy login protocols
Free support, updates and training
Compatible with Canvas, BlackBoard, Moodle, Gsuite, D2L, others
LMS syncing for grading, assessment, quizzes and assignments
Topics
Science & Universe, Birth of Astronomy, Orbits & Gravity
Earth-Moon-Sky, Radiation & Spectra, Instruments, Other Worlds
Earth as a Planet, Cratered Worlds, Earth-like Planets, Giants
Rings-Moons-Pluto, Comets-Asteroids-Solar System
Origin of the Solar System, The Sun, Analyzing Starlight, the Stars
Celestial Distances, Between the Stars - Gas and Dust
Birth of Stars, Age of Stars, Death of Stars, Black Holes
Milky Way Galaxies, Active Galaxies and Quasars
Evolution of Galaxies, Big Bang, Life in the Universe, and More!
Labs Moon & Tides, Properties of Light, Planetary Interiors, Cratered Worlds, Analyzing Starlight, Hubble's Law, Distance with Parallax, Exoplanets, General Relativity & Black Holes, Distances with Parallax, General Relativity & Black Holes, The Search for Exoplanets.
License
Instructor’s Edition free with student/classroom adoption
School bookstore orders accepted (B&N, Follett, Others)
Purchase orders accepted
Student licenses only $29.95 (required referral code)
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