Astroweb
A complete resource for amateur and professional astronomy
Dictionary, NASA
A dictionary of the terms of astronomy, minus the definitions for opposition and conjunction (2005)
A multimedia solar system tour and more
provided by www.anu.edu.au/Physics
With space exploration and the tremendous impact it has had on our societies over the past centuries and especially this century, have also come schools of thought contrary to progress. The BadAstronomy web site is dedicated to compiling and exposing contemporary astronomical misinformation. This kind of effort is essential to combat the forces of mass media in their endless need to sell advertisements and to "entertain" the general populations.
NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database
Operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The STScI Digitized Sky Survey at:
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/dss_form.html
Use this link to enter a R.A. (Radial Ascension) and Decl. (Declination), to view a FITS or GIF image of that region of the deep sky.
Riding with Robots
Astronomy Picture of the Day
This is one of the largest archives of astro images on line.
The archived images are here.
Alex Mellinger's Astrophotography Web Site
Alex has assembled a complete mosaic of the Milky Way Galaxy, the first, full color mosaic I've seen published. Good work, Alex.
Prior to this color mosaic, there was the black and white mosaic published mid-nineteenth century by the Swiss astronomers, Martin and Tatjana Keskula.
http://spacescience.nasa.gov/
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RussianSpaceWeb, a history of space exploration in the former USSR
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center Operated for NASA by SAO
Using processed data (images) from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory satellite, the authors of this web site have gracefully made plain some of the methods now used by astronomers to understand the nature of deep sky objects and the universe around us.
I highly recommend this web site for new and intermediate astronomers
Lund Observatory, Sweden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars orbiter probes, Pathfinder, and other information regarding past and current Mars research, at:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov
The best Mars site I've found online so far, at:
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/mars.html
This site, as the address reveals, offers abundant information on the other planets as well.
Our own pebble deserves some attention on this site, since it is where we view from.
The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) offers a good view of Earth's topography
EarthBrowser by Lunar Software is an economical and fantastic virtual Earth viewer, designed to monitor storms, earthquakes, fires and more.
From the radio, Earth and Sky
Earth Observatory, a NASA web site.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Satellite observations at www.sel.noaa.gov/pmap/ depict aurora events.
Auroral activity extrapolated from the NOAA/POES satellites.
The Stargazer, Jack Horkheimer, a man who enjoys his work and bringing current, accurate information to us. 'Keep looking up!'
Night Sky Magazine
Night Sky Magazine is intended for amateur astronomers, but even for more advanced observers, this publication offers great visual presentation and high standards for information accuracy.
Sky and Telescope Magazine
Sky and Telescope has my vote over Astronomy for a better astronomy publication AND web site.
"Astronomy Throughout the Net"
a Free Monthly Astronomy e-zine with current Astronomy News, Product Review, and more.
http://members.tripod.com/~adver/index.html
the BBC Science and Nature, Space index
an excellent source for current and upcoming information as well as basic maps
Space.com
More of a store and advertising center now days, but still worth a link.
Astronomy of Islam, philosophy and science
Traditional Astronomy of Japan (English)
Native American Astronomy - traditional Lakota (English)
Astrobiology
Life in outer space?
If life is abundant on Earth, who could believe that up there, in the atmosphere above the ocean we live in, that there isn't life?
Only a geocentric.
Edge on galaxy photograph, Eva Koosman
Other photographs by Erik Lichtenberg
Original art works by Alan Dikkers. Please view the Light Matter Arts Gallery
Last updated manually: October 2007
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