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Dark Matter Demos

The focus of this exhibit is on an important, but invisible, part of our universe called dark matter. The exhibit develops background material on galaxies leading up to an understanding of the gravitational effects of dark matter on a visible galaxy.

Two sample lessons are available:

Middle school earth science
High school astronomy/physics

  Department of Physics and Astronomy Last modified on Thursday, 10 June 2004 08:34 AM -0500 by Matthew Craig, mcraig@mnstate.edu
  Funding for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-0120960.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.