Astronomy Related WWW Pages
Pages!
Starstuff- Articles contributed by astronomers on popular topics.
Mars Global Surveyor Homepage
Mars Pathfinder Homepage
National Geographic's
Star Journey
NASA's
Office of Space Flight
includes the Shuttle schedule,
Shuttle Web
,
Mir naked-eye viewing tables
,
International Space Station Web
, information on space launches worldwide, etc.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
The Sky at Night
Your Sky !!!
an interactive planetarium of the Web.
The University of Texas McDonald Observatory's
Stardate
StarTrak :
monthly viewing tips for the night's sky.
Abrams Planetarium :
SKYWATCHER'S DIARY
Organizations
The
A
merican
A
stronomical
S
ociety
NASA
Information Services
and
Today @ NASA
ESO
On-Line Information System
I
nternational
A
stronomical
U
nion
Information on individual
IAU
members.
The
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
S
pace
T
elescope
Sc
ience
I
nstitute
AIP
- American Institute of Physics
TGSAA
- Task Group on Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
The
Iowa Space Grant Consortium
The
SETI
(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies
(A research department of the National Air and Space Museum)
Time Service Department
(formerly The Directorate of Time) of the U.S. Naval Observatory, has a real-time UTC clock. It also gives updates on important things like the introduction of leap-seconds...
The
Ames Area Amateur Astronomers
have compiled an impressive selection of astronomical web resources
W
hole
E
arth
T
elescope
Professional and Popular Journals
Papers Recently Submitted
to Selected Astronomical Publications
The Astrophysical Journal
Astrophysical Journal Electronic Edition
The Astronomical Journal
BAAS
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
PASP
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- A European Journal
New Astronomy
, a professional astrophysics journal published on the WWW
AIP Journals
(Applied Physics Letters, CHAOS, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, etc.)
Bibliographic Codes, Journal Abbreviations
SKY online
Astronomy Magazine
Telescopes and Observatories
The World's Largest Optical Telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory's website
has more than just resources for observers. Their site includes history, outreach, services, and lots more.
University of Iowa's
Automated Telescope Facility
(ATF)
NASA's
Next Generation Space Telescope
N
ational
O
ptical
A
stronomy
O
bservatories
N
ational
R
adio
A
stronomy
O
bservatory
The
WWW Virtual Library Astronomical Observatories Page
maintains the most complete, up-to-date list of Radio, Optical, Space, Solar, Cosmic Ray, Gamma Ray, and Neutrino Observatories in the World
H
ubble
S
pace
T
elescope
homepage
A
Ground-based Solar and Astrophysical Observatory Guide
is maintained by Gordon Johnston of NASA's Office of Space Access and Technology.
Gordon Johnston's Instrument and Sensing Technology
Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide
Mark Peairs's
Observatory Page
"collects pointers to observatories that provide
public viewing
through telescopes."
Automated Telescopes on the Internet
The
Whole Earth Telescope
The South African Astronomical Observatory.
Resources
The Cambridge University Press online
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
.
Mike Boschat has compiled an
enormous list
of astronomy-related web pages.
Accretion Disk- An Astronomy Internet Directory.
Another site of astronomy-related web pages. Some fun pages too!
AstroWeb
: Astronomical Internet Resources
HEASARC's WebStars
: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
ADS
, the Astrophysics Data System
NED
, the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Simbad
, database.
ADS's Astrophysics
Abstract Service
Los Alamos
Astrophysics E-Print archive
International Astronomy Meetings
The
STScI Digitized Sky Survey
SkyView
Image Retrieval Facility, "The Internet's Virtual Telescope"
IRAF
Support Services
The Hubble Data Archive
, a WWW distribution center for data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the VLA FIRST Survey.
The Astronomy Cafe
, featuring "Ask the Astronomer." This site was designed for the "astronomically disadvantaged"
The Nuclear Astrophysics Data home page
Pretty Pictures
Astronomical Pictures & Animations
. This site houses a vast collection of photographs and motion pictures of astronomy subjects.
This
Atlas of Mars
is browsable, zoomable and scrollable, and shows the locations (footprints) of thousands of high-resolution Viking Orbiter images.
HST Public Images
The Web Nebulae
The
Arp's Catalog of Peculiar Galaxies
Views of The
Solar System
by Calvin J. Hamilton
The NASA
Planetary Photojournal
Other Fun and Informative Sites
The Comet Hale-Bopp homepage
with principal contributors: Alan Hale, Tom Bopp, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Kevin Gill, and Joe Bergeron.
Public Television's
NOVA
program
Chicago's
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
Cosmos in a Computer
NASA's
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards page
will scare you silly!
Messier Objects
, all 103 (+7) of them.
Mount Wilson Observatory's
Education page
includes a neat constellation quiz
Astronomy Notes
Sky & Telescope's
Weekly News Bulletin
AstroNet
includes Astronomy-Mall, AstroNet Digest, and Free Astronomy Classified Adds.
Explore Space
Control Center
has lots of links to all kinds of amateur and professional astronomy info.
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