MIRA: Exploring the Universe from the Central Coast homepage

Introduction	The Birth of Stars	Naked Eye Astronomy
The MIRA Story	Life and Death of a Photon	Why a Telescope in Monterey County if There's One in Space?
Friends of MIRA	Stellar Classification	Light Pollution
Research at MIRA	Gravitational Lenses	The Hamming Astronomy Center
MIRA Education Programs	Field Trips to the Stars	Weaver Student Observatory
The Tassajara Fire	Field Trips to the Stars	Weaver Student Observatory

Welcome to the on-line sampler of
MIRA: Exploring the Universe
from the Central Coast

The following pages were adapted from an exhibit that ran from
1 July through 24 September 2000 at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.