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Interpretations of cosmic expansion: anchoring conceptions and misconceptions
Markus Pössel
Teaching cosmology at the undergraduate or high school level requires simplifications and analogies, and inevitably brings the teacher into contact with at least one of the pedagog…
Deriving the Schwarzschild solution from a local Newtonian limit
Markus Pössel
The Schwarzschild metric is derived in a manner that does not require familiarity with the formalism of differential geometry beyond the ability to interpret a general spacetime me…
Simple demonstration experiments for astronomical parallax
Markus Pössel
Parallax is the most important astronomical method for determining the distances from the Earth to nearby stars. We present two hands-on activities that explore the concepts and pr…
Street lights as standard candles: A student activity for understanding astronomical distance measurements
Markus Pössel
Astronomers measure cosmic distances to objects beyond our own galaxy using standard candles: objects of known intrinsic brightness, whose apparent brightnesses in the sky are then…