Hints for researching your topic:
1. First read the Zeilek and Gregory textbook on your topic to
get a general background
2. Go to the library and read other introductory astronomy books
on your topic to broaden
your overview. The text "The Cosmic
Perspective" by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider
& Voit is a good one
3. Go to Wikipedia, which gives you the original papers from
which it has extracted its
information. Try to look up and
read these papers. Do not give Wikipedia as a reference.
4. Go to the websites for Sky and Telescope Magazine, Science
News and Scientific
American. You may give the articles
in these journals as references but you need to
cite the author and date as you would for
any journal.
Avoid giving a link to a website as a sole
reference. Instead, give the author and
date within the body of your paper.
Under the References section of your paper
also given the website sponsor, such as NASA
etc. and then the link.
Topics for Writing
01. Accretion Theory for Formation of Planets
02. Exoplanets
03. Stellar Winds
04. Star Formation
05. Brown Dwarfs
06. White Dwarfs
07. Black Holes
08. Dwarf Novae
09. Novae
10. Supernovae
11. Pulsating Variable Stars
12. Active Galactic Nuclei and Quasars
13. Radio Galaxies
14. Dark Matter
15. Dark Energy and the Accelerated Expansion of the Universe
16 Nucleogenesis of the Elements
17. Grand Unified Theories (GUTs)
18. Inflation Theory
19. The Interstellar Medium
20. The Distribution of Galaxies
21. Interacting Galaxies
22. Neutrinoes
23. T Tauri Stars
24. Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)