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ASSOCIATIONS
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)
Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes (GNAT) small telescopes, non-profit catalyst & education
Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deep Sky Atlas, Links, Views of the Solar System
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA)

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Use It!

(SEDS)
• Guides - Software, Orbital Telescopes
• Astronomy
º Astromaps
º Best of the Hubble Space Telescope
º Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Archive collision with Jupiter
º Constellations
º Interactive NGC Catalog
º Messier Catalog
º Nine Planets Solar System Tour
º Web Nebulae

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• Guides - Software, Orbital Telescopes
• Astronomy
º Nine Planets Solar System Tour

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BLACK HOLES
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center: Imagine the Universe
• Black Holes
• First Black Holes Kept to a Strict Diet, Study Shows

New Scientist
• Black hole theory suggests light is slowing

Utrecht U Physics, Introduction to the Theory of Black Hole (pdf) by Gerard 't Hooft

Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars

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CONSTANTS
Welcome to the Astro-Physical Calculator programs & tables of constants: U Wisconsin

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CONSTELLATIONS & MYTHOLOGY
Dome of the Sky, Planetarium from St Cloud State U
• Constellation List
The Mythology of the Constellations from Cathy Bell
Salopian Web. Astronomy, Space, Radio and Computing Use It!

• Guide to The Constellations of the Night Sky Mythology, Legend & Facts

U Wisconsin, Astronomy
• The Constellations and their Stars by Chris Dolan
º Argo Navis

Windows to the Universe ( from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ), Search
• Myths about the Sky, Constellations, and Stars Use It!

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COORDINATES
AST A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy : U St Andrews

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DATABASES, STAR CATALOGS
Aladin Interactive Sky Atlas, France
Astronomical Data Center (ADC), NASA Links
Astronomical Data Center, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Subaru Telescope, Hawaii

Astronomy Section, Rochester Academy of Science, Links
• Latest Supernovae

Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy, Paul W. Hodge
Bester Tracking Systems, Inc.: Satellite Tracking
Centre de Donnees astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), France

European Southern Observatory (ESO), Archive
• HST Guide Star Catalogue

Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Search
• MAST Web Tutorial
• Run SpecView
• STScI Archive Manual

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS @Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophsics), Browse, Search Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation
• Mirrors: U Nottingham

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, Links

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), Help
• Images from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey

Naval Oceanography Portal: Astronomy
• Astronomical Almanac Online, Glossary ( pdf )
• Data Services Sun and Moon rise & set times, Moon phases, eclipses, seasons, positions of solar system objects, ( Alt )
• Software Products
• Washington Double Star Catalog

Open SkyQuery from the US National Virtual Observatory
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) with Links to other NASA data centers

SIMBAD
• Aladin Sky Atlas Download or Applet
• Bibliographic Service
• Catalogues
• Developer's Corner “source packages are protected”... “rightholders authorize software usage for research purposes outside any lucrative use”
• Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
• Tutorials on CDS main services
• VizieR Service access catalogues from name or designation, or browse

Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Sky Server, About, Search
• Download software
• How To Tutorials
• Teachers lesson plans using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Visual Tools

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS.org) Spider
• Constellations
• Guide to the Deepsky Astronomy Resources at SEDS
• Interactive NGC Catalog Online
• Messier Catalog
• NGC 5272 = M3

UK Astronomical Data Centre
VIM: Visual Integration and Mining research multiple sky positions simultaneously

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DISTANCE
Drew Olbrich A collection of personal projects
• Earth and Moon how the Earth and Moon would appear from an observer in space

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EARTH
also see.. Planets

Robert L. Nowack Professor of Geophysics, Purdue U: EAS 105, The Planets, Links
• Lecture 5 Newton's Laws and Earth's density

Wikipedia
• Cavendish experiment
• Cavendish, Henry
• Earth mass
• History of astronomy
• Michell, John
• Planetary mass
• Schiehallion experiment

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EDUCATION
Lectures Notes: Global Change Project: U Michigan
NASA - Digital Learning Network DLiNfo Channel
The Space Educator publication download: National Space Society (NSS)
Space Educator's Handbook

StarDate.org U Texas, McDonald Observatory outreach, SiteMap
• Lesson Plans don't miss the Enrichment Activities
º Build a Spectroscope
º Mirror Mirror
º Super Gelatin find the index of refraction

St. Louis Area Physics Teachers (SLAPT)
• Teaching Resources
• Relative Sizes of Planets Stars (ppt)

Northwestern U Dept Physics & Astronomy

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE
SETI@home connect your home computer to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

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FIND
DIRECTORIES-Astronomy
dmoz.org Open Directory | Google.com | WikiPedia | Yahoo.com

AbsoluteAstronomy.com, News, Q&A (Ask an astronomy question)
• select from Constellations, Galaxies, Messier Objects, Moons, Nebulas, Planets, Stars
• Reference

Ardan Scientific Programming, L.L.C. - Links
The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The Astronomy Net articles, Forum, News, products, pubs...

AstroWeb ( Space Telescope Science Institiute ): Astronomical Internet Resources, Links
• AstroWeb Consortium:
º CDS, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
º Institute of Astronomy, UK
º VILSPA, Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station, Spain, European Space Agency
º NARO, Charlottsville National Radio Astronomy Observatory

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet Links: MSSSO
dmoz.org astronomy Links: Open Directory Project
Earth & Sky

Michigan Electronic Library
• Space & Astronomy

Niel Brandt (a.k.a. William Nielsen Brandt) Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• from Penn State U, Dept Astronomy & Astrophysics

PSIgate Physical Science Information Gateway
• Astronomy Gateway

Qozi.com - Astronomy (Links)
SEM: Science, Engineering, & Math Links: U Delaware

TCAEP.co.uk Constants and Equations Pages, About, Site Download
• sponsored by the Institute of Physics
• Astronomy
• Math
• Science
º Constants, interactive Conversions , Equations

U Southampton, Astronomy Group Links
• Databases, Institutes and Observatories, Journals

Space Subject Page
WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace Portal: NASA HEASARC
WWW Virtual Library Astronomy, Astrophysics & AstroWeb Links

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GEOSPACE, SUN-EARTH INTERACTION
also see.. §Earth Sciences§, §Weather§

High Frequency Auroral Research Program - Links
• Glossary of Solar Terrestrial Terms
• Ionosphere - About

NASA
• Earth Observatory analyze climatic & environmental change using satellite data
• Mission to Geospace
• Visible Earth

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - Public Outreach
• About the Sun
• Windows to the Universe

Wikipedia
• Sun

Windows to the Universe from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
• Search
• Space Weather Today - Effects, Solar Storms, Storm Displays, Sun-Earth

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HUBBLE TELESCOPE
also see.. Telescopes

HubbleSite.org from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), About, SiteMap
• Future Cosmic Collision of our Milky Way & Andromeda galaxies
• Education and Museums
• Explore Astronomy
• Gallery
• gSky view the Universe through Google Earth
• Hubble's Universe Unfiltered Videos
• Image Tours
• Piercing the Sky historical perspective on telescopes
• Tonight's Sky monthly presentations on current views of constellations, deep sky objects, planets & events

Space Telescope Science Institute (Hubble) data, education, events, News, pictures, science, software

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INFRARED
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) data archive, events, gallery, Links, publications, software
NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, from U Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy

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IMAGES
Image Gallery Dearborn Observatory

Images of the Universe A Journey Through Time Astrophotography by Dave Jurasevich, Links Use It!

• Equipment
• Gallery

Burnell, Jim
Caligiuri, Michael
Cannistra, Steve
Catterall, Adrian
Celestial Images Astral Photography
Cohen, Gilles
Croman, Russell

NASA
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Archive, Index, Search
• Earth
• Earth from Space
• NSSDC Photo Gallery, planetary, astronomical objects, project indices
• Photo Gallery

Ricks Astro Photography
• WhatsUp – An Astronomy/Astrophotography Planning Tool

StarryScapes.com, Loke Kun Tan's Astrophotography

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INSTRUMENTS
Ultraviolet Coronograph Spectrometer SOHO UVCS Experiment Handbook

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
Life in the Universe NASA Exobiology
Seti@Home

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MICROWAVES
Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis from NASA

NASA's data center for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) research
• Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
º Software

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NASA & SPACE TRAVEL
Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Archive, Index, Search
Earth Fly By Photos from Galileo
Kennedy Space Center Science and Technology Home Page: NASA
NASA Spacelink Electronic Library Image Files Map
NASA Timeline
Planetary Photojournal NASA
Project Galileo - Jupitor
Space Biology an Educator's Resource, Glossary, Links, Modules
universetoday.com - Links

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NEWS
LiveScience.com
• Space

Sky and Telescope Magazine books, imaging, News, resources, tips
Space.com
UniverseToday.com

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OBSERVATORIES

Anglo-Australian Observatory, SiteMap
• Databases and Catalogues
• Images
• Library - Journals Online

Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (CASU)
• UK Astronomical Data Centre
• INT Wide Field Survey
º Data Access, Release

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Links

European Southern Observatory, Search, SiteMap
• Archive - Digitized Sky Survey, HST Guide Star Catalogue, Public Datasets
• Gallery
• Software, Support & Tools

Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) data archive, events, gallery, Links, publications, software

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), Tuscon, AZ
• part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
• Image Gallery

Lick Observatory U California
MIT Haystack Observatory
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Subaru Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
• Archive, Links
• jMAISON Multi-wavelength Astronomical Image Service ON-line
National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Links

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OPTICS/TELESCOPES
also see.. Hubble

400 Years of the Telescope a journey of science, technology & thought from PBS.org

Aberrator freeware: common telescope defects; Point-Spread & Modulation Transfer functions (Win95/98)
ATM Mirror Mathematics
Cell freeware floatation mirror cell design program for reflecting telescopes

Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes (GNAT) for small telescope users, Links
• Archives
• Gallery
• Information: Specs, White Papers

Internet Encyclopedia of Science by David Darling
• Telescope Equipment and Techniques

Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, About
• Astronomy
• Engineering
• Public Information

MicroObservatory
• Image Directory, Archive
• Select Telescope Site
• Observing with NASA

MIT
• MIT researchers create a 'perfect mirror'

Mount Wilson Observatory
• request an observing session
• Virtual Tour

Rating Mirrors article with Links by Mel Bartels
SkyAndTelescope.com
Sky and Telescope Magazine books, imaging, News, resources, tips

Skyview virtual telescope from NASA
• Interfaces:
º Basic, Advanced
º Custom
º Java all functions plus color tables change, image overlays & rescaling, zooming..
º Non-Astronomer

Stellafane ATM Pages (Amateur Telescope Making)
The Telescope historical article
Telescopes & Astronomy Sales and astronomy information, Contents, SiteMap & Search, Astralia

Wikipedia
• Category:Telescope types
• Cassegrain reflector
• History of the telescope
• Klevtsov-Cassegrain telescope
• Liquid mirror
• List of largest optical telescopes historically
• List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
• List of largest optical refracting telescopes
• Mauna Kea Observatory
• Maksutov telescope
• Newtonian telescope
• Radio astronomy
• Radio telescope
• Reflecting telescope
• Refracting telescope
• Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
• Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology
• Timeline of telescope technology
• W. M. Keck Observatory

WorldWideTelescope.org Use It!

(WWT) virtual telescope Web 2.0 visualization software, view some of highest resolution imagery About

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PARALLAX

Wikipedia
• Aberration of light
• Astronomical constant
• Astronomical unit
• Cosmic distance ladder
• Luminosity
• Parallax
• Parsec

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PLANETS

Robert L. Nowack Professor of Geophysics, Purdue U: EAS 105, The Planets, Links

Wikipedia
• Category:Planets
• Category:Types of planet
• Heliocentrism
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
• Planet

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PLANETARIUMS
also see.. Sky Maps
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
NASA's Observatorium
Planetarium.net books, education, Links, Forum, News

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PROJECT GALILEO
Project Galileo (JPL)

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RADIO ASTRONOMY
European Radio Astronomy Club, Links to ( Observations, Radio Telescopes )

MIT Haystack Observatory
• 37-meter Radio Telescope, Links
• Radio Astornomy at Haystack
• Small Radio Telescope (SRT) radio astronomy with a satellite TV dish

Millimetre-wave Radio Astronomy Institute ( El Instituto de Radioastronomía Milimétrica, IRAM ) in France

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NARO)
• Sites: Charlottesville, VA, Green Bank, WV, Socorro, NM, Tuscon, AZ
• Image Gallery
• Library

NRAO Very Large Array Socorro, NM

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SATELLITES

N2yo.com real time satellite tracking

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SKYMAPS & VIRTUAL SPACE TRAVEL
also see.. Planetariums

AJ's Cosmic Thing stationary or moving plots, time, date, longitude, latitude, position (Java)
Aladin Java: An Interactive Sky Atlas: Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
GrandTour Voyager/Giotto Mission Simulator (Windows/Dos freeware)
Sky3D entire sky, interactive 3-d views (Win95/98/NT shareware)
ExInEd Home Page picture books, reports, tutorials: Space Telescope Science Institute

Fourmilab Switzerlandby John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc., SiteMap
• Earth and Moon Viewer Solar System Live
º Inner Planets
º Entire Solar System
• Your Sky interactive planetarium

Solar System Live by John Walker from fourmilab
• Inner Planets
• Entire Solar System

StarStrider 3D planetarium (Win 9x shareware)
Free Virtual Galaxy Project 3D virtual reality Solar System, fly to Milky Way stars (DOS freeware)
ChView 3-d view near stars, stellar information (Win3.x/95 freeware)

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SOFTWARE/APPLETS
also see.., §SOFTWARE§

AASTeX Package for Manuscript Preparation (LaTeX-based) macros, About, FAQ
Andromeda Software, Inc.: Science CD-ROMs for IBM & Mac
Astronomical Information Processing System: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Astronomy software servers: NRAO/Charlottesville

Celestia free Open Source Software from SourceForge.net
• real-time 3D space simulation, views of the universe from throughout the universe

CelestiaMotherlode.net Addon Repository for Celestia
CLEA Project: Overview of Available Software
• from Gettysburg College, Physics
• Current Versions of the CLEA software Download: (Excel) list: latest version numbers
• General Technical User's Manual (pdf) REQUIRED
• Astrometry of Asteroids
• Flow of Energy Out of the Sun
• Height of Lunar Mountains from an associated Non-CLEA developer
• Hubble RedShift-Distance Relation
• Large Scale Structure of the Universe
• Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades
• Radio Astronomy of Pulsars
• Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter
• Spectral Classification of Stars
• Rotation of Mercury by Doppler Effect

Dan's Astronomy Software Collection Use It!

dmoz.org astronomy software Links: Open Directory Project
manymoons some odd assumptions when close
MyStars! Shareware: Relative Data Products
The sky in your computer computer science & astronomy shareware & freeware software
StarChart free, Open Source, Unix star mapping software at SourceForge.net, Manual

StarLink Project Use It!

About, FAQ, Links, News, Search, SiteMap
• Documentation, Download info, Software Store (GPL License Downloads, Unix)
• Getting Started
• Software, Java Software (data access, reduction and analysis)

Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time with OpenGL
• display stars, constellations, planets, nebulas; ground, landscape, atmosphere...
• free Open Source software from sourceforge.net (language: C, C++)

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SOLAR SYSTEM & SIMULATION

Celestia free Open Source Software from SourceForge.net
• real-time 3D space simulation, travel through solar system and to over 100,000 near stars

Galileo Project
• Education and Public Outreach Website
º Glossary

Planetary Photojournal NASA

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• Our Planets Use It!

A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System

Solar System Coloring Book Index facts, images & links: U Mich
Solar System Visualization online solar system objects & spacecraft animations/movies: NASA
U Tennessee, Knoxville , Physics & Astronomy: Astronomy 161
• The Solar System

Views Of The Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton
Virtual Solar System Use It!

nationalgeographic.com
Welcome to the Planets best images from NASA's planetary exploration program

Wikipedia
• Solar nebula
• Sun
• Plasma
º Solar wind
• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
º Earth's magnetic field
• Mars
• Asteroid belt
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• Comets, Dust, Meteoroids

N-BODY & SOLAR SYSTEM SIMULATIONS

Central Force Motion with Java newtonian gravity, relativistic, 1/r⁴...
Gravel N-Body Newtonian physics simulation (freeware)
Gravitation Home Page 2-d applet, no source code
Kepler's Laws Java source - orbit (hyperboloid) drawn from chosen position and velocity
Let's make a solar system Java (4th order Runge-Kutta) applet - sun, earth, moon orbits
NASA's java solar system displays planet orbits
N-Body Java application with source code for RK-4
NBody simulates evolution of planets from dust cloud, bodies join when close
OpenUniverse Open Source 3D Solar System (& beyond) simulation
Solar System Applet 3-d solar system applet - rotate, zoom; Links
Unit 1 Simulations physics applets
Xstar N-body Solver with N-body problem introductory text (open source Unix)

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SUPERNOVAS

Brookhaven National Laboratory: SNEWS: SuperNova Early Warning System
• Supernovas: Making Astronomical History
Wikipedia: Supernova

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TUTORIALS

Amazing Space from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI), Links, SiteMap
• Capture the Cosmos
º Black Holes, Comets, Galaxies, Solar system, Stars & stellar evolution
º Gravity, Light and color
º History of science
• Online Explorations
º Comets, Planet Impact!, Solar System Trading Cards
º Galaxies Galore, Galaxy Hunter
º From Galileo to HST
º Hubble Deep Field Academy
º Mission Mastermind
º Star Light, Star Bright
º The Truth About Black Holes
• For educators and developers

Ask an Astronomer Use It!

( Ask ) About, Links
• from Cornell U, Astonomy ( Resources ) additional Links within each site below
• Observational Astronomy: Eclipses, Telescopes, Timekeeping, Stargazing
• Solar System: Comets, Meters, Asteroids, Earth, Moon, Planets, Sun
• Universe: Black Holes, Quasars, Cosmology, Big Bang, Galaxies, Milky Way, Planets, Stars, Supernovae
• Miscellaneous:
º Careers
º History of Astronomy
º Physics, Relativity
º SETI,Extra-Terrestrial Life, Space Exploration, Astronauts

Ask Dr. Universe from Washington State U

Ask a Scientist Archive - Search: NEWTON/ANL, Argonne National Lab
• (bad link?) Astronomy

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• An Ancient Universe: How Astronomers Know the Vast Scale of Cosmic Time

Bad Astronomy Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.

Cool Cosmos Heat, Temperature & Multiwave Astronomy, About, SiteMap

Imagine the Universe Use It!

from NASA, Dictionary, Links, SiteMap
• Cosmic Objects
º Active Galaxies & Quasars, Black Holes
º Cosmic Rays, Gamma-Ray Bursts, X-ray Binary Systems, X-ray Transients
º Dark Matter, Diffuse Background
º Neutron Stars and Pulsars
º Stars, Sun, Supernovae, White Dwarfs
• Special Exhibit, multimedia
• Teachers Corner Lesson Plans
• Stallites & Data to study the high-energy universe
• Science & Advanced Science with Search, black holes, galaxies & other objects
º Electromagnetic Spectrum - Intro: Radio, Micro-, Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet, X- & Gamma- Ray

Liftoff to Space Exploration StarChild Astronomical Data Services
Messier Catalog from the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

MIT Open Courseware Use It!

All Courses Index, Audio/Video Courses
• Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Physics

Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial: UCLA

OpenCourse.info: Introduction to Astronomy
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space Use It!

(SEDS)
• Guides - Software, Orbital Telescopes
• Astronomy
º Astromaps
º Best of the Hubble Space Telescope
º Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Archive collision with Jupiter
º Constellations
º Interactive NGC Catalog
º Messier Catalog
º Nine Planets Solar System Tour
º Web Nebulae

Windows to the Universe ( from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ), Search
• Ask A Scientist
• Earth
• Geology
• Myths about the Sky, Constellations, and Stars
• Solar System
• Universe

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UNIVERSE
Planetary Sciences at the NSSDC
Space History Time Line

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