See Also:
Science
- Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum - Chicago.
- American Astronomical Society - Publishers of The Astrophysical Journal
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- American Meteor Society - Geneseo, NY. Non-profit scientific organization established to encourage and support the research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are interested in the fascinating field of Meteor Astronomy. Offers a Fireball Sightings Log, Weekly Meteor Activty Outlook, Meteor Studies at Majden Observatory (Courtenay, B.C. Canada), Audio Gallery of Radiometeor Events and Meteor Showers.
- Ames Research Center - Located in Moffett Field, California, the Center is part of NASA.
- Antique Telescope Society - Glenn Oclassen
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc (AURA)
- Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards - NASA. See also Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission page.
- Astrobiology Magazine
- Astrobiology Web - Keith Cowing
- Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy - Wolfgang R. Dick.
- Astronomical Museum | Museo della Specola - Universitą di Bologna.
- Astronomię instauratę mechanica (1602) - Tycho Brahe. Digital Edition. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 1999. (Another Digital Editions is Systema Saturnium (1659) by Christiaan Huygens.)
- Astronomy Center - "Collection of digital resources for college-level introductory astronomy faculty and students" Created by the American Astronomical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the NSF-NSDL.
- Astronomy Magazine - Kalmbach publication is "the world's largest English-language magazine for Astronomy hobbyists".
- Astronomy Picture of the Day - NASA
- Astronomy Thesaurus - Compiled by Robyn M. Shobbrook & Robert R. Shobbrook, Sydney University, with web interface by David Fullagar
- AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources - Bob Jackson's massive collection of astronomy resources. (Also available here.)
- Aurora Page - Information, links and images about the Northern Lights
- Australia Telescope National Facility
- Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait ("astronomer, teacher, lecturer and all-around science junkie") devotes this site to "airing out myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics".
- Berkeley Lab Science Beat
- Blast from the Past - "Convincing new evidence of an asteroid impact 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs went extinct." Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
- Bologna Astrophysical Preprints
- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit - Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
- Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne
- Catalog of Infrared Observations - "Database of over 374,000 published infrared observations of more than 62,000 individual astronomical sources over the wavelength range from 1 to 1000 microns."
- Center for Earth & Planetary Studies - National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center - With Cyycle 1 Chandra Science Images. (See June 9, 2000 story Chandra Images Unveiled This Week Wow Astronomers in Unisci: Daily University Science News.)
- Ciel et Terre - Online exhibition from the Bibliothčque Nationale de France includes images from the Catalan Atlas (1375-1380) and offers a wealth of information on the history of astronomy with biographies, a glossary, a chronology, bibliography, maps and a quantity of images from the library's manuscript collection. Elegant and beautifully designed - worth a visit even if you don't read French.
- Comet Observation - Charles S. Morris, NASA
- Constellations Index - Kerry Magruder, Librarian, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma. (Magruder is also responsible for two other astronomy-related pages: Basic Celestial Phenomena and Nota a Medieval Woodcut.)
- Constellations - Richard Dibon-Smith
- Deep Sky Database - "Tool for amateur astronomers who love to pursue deep sky objects. It employs a web-based version of the Saguaro Astronomy Club's database (ver 7.2), consisting of over 10,000 records. This online version of the SAC database allows amateur astronomers to compile detailed and customized observing lists."
- Earth and Sky - Award winning daily science radio series.
- EarthRise - Database of photos taken by astronauts out of the windows of the space shuttle. (Maintained by Paige Elliott, San Diego Supercomputing Center.)
- The Elegant Universe - NOVA. (Produced by WGBH for PBS). See also archive of space-related programs.
- Elementary Astronomy Notes - These notes were created by Nick Strobel for the introductory astronomy courses he teaches at Bakersfield College.
- Encyclopedia Astronautica - Mark Wade
- ERAU Virtual Libraries - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
- European Space Agency
- Expanding Universe: A Classified Search Tool for Amateur Astronomy - Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
- Galileo Project Information - National Space Science Data Center
- Gateway to Astronaut Photography
- Geophysical Institute Auroral Activity Forecasts - University of Alaska
- Goddard Space Flight Center - Site highlights include a Library section with access to the catalog and electronic journals, a Photo and Movie Gallery, Hot Topics, and daily and Weekly newletters. David Stern's The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere, From Stargazers to Starships and The Great Magnet, the Earth: 400 Years of "De Magnete" are useful K-12 resources.
- Google Earth - Software allows you to view satellite and aerial photographs of anywhere on earth
- Great Images in NASA (GRIN) - Over 1,000 images of significant historical interest.
- Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Online version of the second edition of Martin V. Zombeck's technical reference book published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - Cambridge, Massachusetts. Offers Current Sky Information and CfA Preprint Abstracts.
- Heavens-Above - Resource for obtaining the longitude and latitude for over 2 million locations. Provides detailed predictions of the Earth-orbiting satellites, generated in real-time and customized for your location and time zone.
- Hubble Space Telescope News - Space Science Telescope Institute
- Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures - Jonathan Eisenhamer, Space Telescope Science Institute
- IMAGE Science Center - IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration), a NASA project to study space weather, solar winds and magnetic fields, was launched March 25, 2000. The POETRY section (Public Outeach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth), provides images, live data and facts.
- Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton, New Jersey. Astrophysics
page has a list of Natural Sciences electronic journals with full-text access
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- International Planetarium Society - Has links to its Affiliates and to Planetaria Around the World organized geographically.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory - National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), California Institute of Technology.
Provides a site directory, a description of their missions, and Recent News.
- Kennedy Space Center - They also have a Scientific, Technical and Engineering page.
- Kopernik Astronomical Society
- Liftoff to Space Exploration - Marshall Space Flight Center site enables users to find the precise location of the Mir space station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other orbiting satellites and any of the shuttles when they are in orbit.
- Lunar and Planetary Institute - Their Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon "is a reproduction of the 675 plates contained in Bowker and Hughes. The digital archive, however, offers many improvements upon its original hardbound predecessor."
- Major Facility Inventory - "Data on major government aerospace facilities which were prepared by the individual installations, who are responsible for the content." Search for facilities by location, type, keyword, parameters, or program supported.
- Mars Global Surveyor - Real time updates
- Mars Pathfinder Home Page - Jet Propulsion Laboratory. See also Mars Missions.
- Marshall Space Flight Center - Huntsville, Alabama. (NASA)
- Mir Space Station
- Mount Wilson Observatory - Pasadena, California
- NASA - Homepage of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958.
- NASA Astrophysics Data System - Provides access to 4 searchable databases (Astronomy, Physics, Instrumentation, and Preprints) with a total of over 1.25 million references. The Journal Query Page provides access to over 800,000 scanned journal article pages form over 20 astronomical journals. The ADS Digital Library has online books relating to astronomy and astrophysics. (Mirror Site.)
- NASA Center Libraries
- NASA Human Space Flight - Provides live tracking during missions
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Technical Report Server - Database of Abstracts, Citations and full text Technical Reports written by and for the scientific and technical community.
- NASA's Planetry Photojournal - Provide easy access to over 2,000 publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs.
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
- National Air & Space Museum - Washington, D.C. With access to Air & Space Magazine which has an Online Article List.
- National Space Science Data Center - Their
Photo Gallery includes images of Mars.
- National Space Society
- Near Earth Object Program - With information on Asteroid 2000 SG344, which has a remote 1 in 500 chance of impacting the Earth in 2030.
- Near Live Comet Watching System - NASA
- New Mexico Skies Guest Observatory - Located on 7,300-foot Mount Joy in the Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico, this bed and breakfast is "dedicated to providing sophisticated astronomy aficionados memorable experiences of the night sky." See also the Star Hill Inn in Sapello, New Mexico.
- New Yorker Magazine
- The Dark Side: Making war on light pollution
by David Owen, New Yorker, August 20, 2007. "Excessive, poorly designed outdoor lighting wastes electricity, imperils human health and safety, disturbs natural habitats, and, increasingly, deprives many of us of a direct relationship with the nighttime sky, which throughout human history has been a powerful source of reflection, inspiration, discovery, and plain old jaw-dropping wonder."
- Nicholas Copernicus: "De revolutionibus" - Manuscript from the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Krakow, Poland
- Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System - Bill Arnett
- Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe - An exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford on the sixteenth-century Danish astronomer
- Observatorium - "Public access site for Earth and space data" includes headlines, weekly observation, games, data, images; NASA Remote Sensing Public Access Center
- Planetary Society - "The Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by Drs. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman to encourage the exploration of our solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life." It provides "over 550 pages of information about space exploration and more than 480 images, artwork and other graphics. It is an on-going labor of love on the part of volunteers and dedicated professionals." Site highlights include an
Site Map,
Learning Center,
Hot Topics,
Publications and
Space Links.
- Princeton Observatory Preprints (POPS)
- Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
- NASA site offers "just-released images and data from Jupiter" as well as Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases
- Royal Astronomical Society - London
- ScienceDaily Magazine - Science news. Has search engine. Other news sites include Science News Online, which is searchable and provides selected full-text articles, ABC News: Science, Eurekalert, also searchable, Scientific American, with search engine, and Unisci: Daily University Science News, (searchable).
- Sky & Telescope Magazine - Highlights:
- Astronomy Online - Column by Stuart Goldman
- Community Photo Gallery
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale
- Magazine Archive Search
- SkyView: Virtual Observatory - NASA
- SOHO Summary Database - NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, an observational satellite providing researchers with the first long-term and uninterrupted look at the Sun
- Sojourner Rover Home Page - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Solar System Simulator - Create a color image of your favorite planet or satellite. (From NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.)
- Space.com - News, information, education and entertainment.
- Space Calendar - "Space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 1,000 links to related home pages"; maintained by Ron Baalke, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Space Telescope Science Institute - Carries out the scientific mission of the Hubble Space Telescope. Has Preprints.
- StarChild Project - NASA's "learning center for young astronomers"
- Stephen Hawking's Universe - PBS
- Today@NASA
- Understanding the Universe - Discovery Channel's exploratory guide of the galaxy for kids in grades K-8.
- Universities Space Research Association
- University of California Observatories & Lick Observatory - Santa Cruz
- United States Naval Observatory
- U.S. Space Camp - Huntsville, Alabama
- Views of the Solar System - Calvin J. Hamilton, Los Alamos National Laboratories. (Also available in Spanish and Portuguese.)
- Virtual Sun - Michiel Berger, the Netherlands
- Virtual Tours of Astronomical Observatories - Douglas J. Mink, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars - Robert Nemiroff, Michigan Technological University
- WWW-VL: Astronomy and Astrophysics & AstroWeb - Sergio Paoli
- Welcome to Mars! - Information on the Mars Pathfinder Mission from the American Museum of Natural History