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- AbsoluteAstronomy.com
- Facts and statistical information about planets, moons, constellations, stars,
galaxies, and Messier objects.
- Astronomical
Applications Department, U.S. Naval Observatory - Computes the position, brightness,
and other observable characteristics of celestial bodies, as well as the circumstances
of astronomical phenomena. Site has extensive information on astronomical phenomena,
calendars, and related topics.
- Astronomical
Optical Interferometry - The use of multiple telescopes to produce high resolution
images - commonly used at most modern observatories. A literature review article.
- Astronomical
Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List - List of resources for those who
want to examine with a skeptical eye some of the claims at the fringes of science
that seem connected to astronomy.
- Astronomy
Archive - Largest astronomy-related mailing list database with full-text searchable
archive.
- Astronomy
Campfire Chat - Forum and chat for discussing astronomy.
- Astronomy
Education and Outreach - General astronomy tutorial, education links, web
courses, documents at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
- Astronomy
Facts and Trivia - Fun facts and trivia relating to astronomy, space, science
fiction movies. Most trivia items are submitted by users.
- Astronomy
for All - Extensive index full of graphics and illustrations about stars,
the Solar System, cosmology and Galileo.
- Astronomy
Net - Resources, searchable forums and searchable lists of organizations providing
astronomy services.
- Astronomy
Today - Articles on astronomy, cosmology and space exploration, with a regularly
updated sky guide and the latest space news.
- AstroWeb
- Astronomical Internet resources by the Space Telescope Science Institute.
- An
Atlas of the Universe - Contains 3D maps of the universe zooming out from
the nearest stars to the scale of the galaxy and out to the surrounding superclusters
and finally to the scale of the known universe.
- Australia
Astro Site - Extensive resources for astronomy.
- Beyond
Earth - Everything Not on Earth - We provide info about the beginning of universe
and solar system. About the planets, quasars, the Milky Way, black holes. Life
of a star, etc. Travel in space and extraterrestrial beings.
- Can
I Buy a Star, or Have One Named? - No.
- Eric
Weisstein's World of Astronomy - A web encyclopedia. Over 500 entries, ranging
from definitions to full articles.
- Guidelines
For Star Naming - From International Planetarium Society.
- Infrared
Astronomy - All about infrared astronomy from NASA's infrared astronomy center:
Discovery of infrared, what is infrared and infrared astronomy, history, the infrared
universe, gallery, activities, discoveries, missions and a lot of links to IR
astronomy sites.
- An
Introduction to Astronomy - Learn about astronomy; goes into lots of details,
and also has lots of astro-clip art.
- Magnetic
Astronomy - Cosmic Magnetism - Starting from Earth, a voyage on a rocket to
the edge of the Universe will show on the way different magnetic fields in different
objects.
- The
Naming of Stars - Leaflet from Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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