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Lesson Plan

National Optical Astronomy Observatory: Jewels of the Night

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Using the Jewelbox Cluster, students determine the cluster's age based on measurements of its color and brightness.

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Concepts
luminosity
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Additional Tags
age, apparent brightness, color-brightness diagram, hetzsprung-russel diagram, property star, star brightness, star clusters, jewelbox cluster, national optical astronomy observatory: jewels of the night, cluster, properties of a star
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
NGSS
HS-ESS1-3