Night Sky Research Project

• Explora - Scholarly database. Access encyclopedia articles, journal and newspaper articles, and media related to your topic.
  💡 Try searching for constellations, stargazing, light pollution, or another term related to your topic.  You can also try combining terms together, like night myth.
      To open a result, click "Read more," "Access options," or "Access now."
  📝 Create a citation: In any article or media, click the quotation marks button at the top right ❝ and change the Style dropdown to MLA.

• Britannica School - Encyclopedia articles, videos, images, and primary source documents.
  💡 Try searching for constellations, light pollution, or another subject related to your topic.
  💡 The link defaults to middle school.  To access the high school level, click on the Britannica School logo and select High.  Try the same searches.  The high school level has articles on more topics, and more information in the articles.
  📝 Create a citation: For any article, image, video, or other media, look for the checkbox to create a citation to copy. ☑    

• List of the Constellations - A list of constellations with their mythological associations, with links to other information, from a research associate at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy.
  📝 Create a citation: From any web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.

• The Constellations - A great source of images and other information from the International Astronomical Union.
  📝 Create a citation: From the web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.

• The Night Sky by Any Other Name: Myths - A prepared document from the Center for History of Physics on several myths.
  📝 Copy this citation into your bibliography:

The Center for History of Physics.  "The Night Sky by Another Name: Myths." AIP.org, https://www.aip.org/sites/default/files/history/teaching-guides/night-sky-another-name/The%20Night%20Sky%20by%20Another%20Name_Myths%20Handout.pdf

• Star Art - An Introduction to Myths of Different Cultures - A list of astronomical myths prepared by NASA.
  📝 Create a citation: From the web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.

• The Myths and Lore of the Milky Way - An article from a professor of Astrophysics at the University of Portsmouth.
  📝 Create a citation: From the web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.

• Light Pollution Atlas - Maps of light pollution in 2006, 2016, 2020, and 2022 from a member of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
  💡 Click the layers icon on the top left to change the map or view trends by clicking the check boxes. Click the names of the layers to see descriptive information.
  📝 Copy this citation into your bibliography:

Lorenz, David J. “Light Pollution Atlas 2006, 2016, 2020 and 2022.” djlorenz.github.io, 2016, djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2006/overlay/dark.html.

• Light Pollution Resources - Information from DarkSky.org on what light pollution is, its causes and effects, and possible solutions.
  📝 Create a citation: From any web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.

• ‌Lights Out: Recovering the Night Sky - An exhibit about light pollution from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
  📝 Create a citation: From the web page, click the MyBib Chrome extension and make sure MLA is selected.