Astronomy Subject Guide

General | News | Archive Data, Images and Galleries | Comets and Meteors | Eclipses | Galaxies | History | Meteorology | Nebula | Observatories | Occultation | Organizations | Planets and Solar Systems | Space | Stars, Clusters and Constellations | Teaching Astronomy | Miscellaneous

General

• Aboriginal Star Knowledge: Native American Astronomy
• Antimatter: Mirror of the Universe (CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research)
• Astrobiology Web
• Astronomy Thesaurus
• AstroWeb: Astronomy / Astrophysics on the Internet
• EINet Galaxy Science - Astronomy
• PAMNET Resources List for Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics (Special Library Association & Yale University)
• Yahoo: Astronomy
• Yahoo: Space Science

  News

• Earth and Sky (Radio Series)
• Sky and Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin

  Archive Data, Images and Galleries

• Astronomical Data Center
• Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA Pictures)
• Johnson Space Center History Portal
  Official histories, chronologies of manned space programs.
• JPL's Horizons System
  Key solar systems data.
• NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
  NASA's online image and photo collection.
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal
• Planetary Rings Node
  Archives, catalogs, and distribution of scientific data relevant to planetary ring systems.
• Sky View
• Views of the Solar System

  Comets and Meteors

• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards
  Search for near earth objects that could impact the earth.
• Comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake
• Comet P/ Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision With Jupiter
• International Meteor Organization
  Meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust.
• Near Live Comet Watching System.
  Uploaded images of comet Hale-Bopp.

  Eclipses

• Eclipse Home Page
• Old Farmer's Almanac -- Eclipses
• Solar Eclipse Information
• Solar Eclipse (hermit.org)

  Galaxies

• The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter
• Milky Way Galaxy (University of Arizonia)
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (Cal Tech)

  History

• Astronomiae Historia/History of Astronomy
• Greek Astronomy: revival of an Ancient Science (University of North Carolina)
• Women in Astronomy (Committee on the Status of Women, AAS)

  Meteorology

• Vortex 100 Storm Chase Page
• Wind and Sea: the Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator (NOAA)

  Nebula

• The Web Nebulae (University of Arizona)

  Observatories

• Big Bear Observatory (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Infrared Space Observatory (European Space Agency)
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories: NOAO
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF)
• U. S. Naval Observatory
• Yahoo: Astronomy Research Observatories

  Occultation

• Asteroids Introduction
• Buie: Lowell Occultation Program
  Observations from Lowell Observatory of occultations of stars by solar system objects.
• Neptune (Northwestern University)
• Pluto (NASA)
• Uranian Ring System (NASA)

  Organizations

• American Association of Variable Star Observers
  Includes variable star charts and links.
• American Astronomical Society
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• International Astronomical Union
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
• NASA Astrophysics Data System (NASA's Online Research Facility, Harvard University)
• National Science Foundation
• Royal Astronomical Society of London
• Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo)

  Planets and Solar Systems

• Center for Mars Exploration International

• Solar Terrestrial Physics

• Mars Web

• Planetary Society
  Exploration of the cosmos and search for extraterristrial life.

• Planets
• Solar System Simulator
• The Sun: Nine Planets (University of Arizona)
  Overview of history, mythology, and scientific knowledge of each planet and moons in the solar system.
• Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
  View phase of the moon from dates 1800-2199 A.D.

  Space

• NASA Homepage
• NASA Technical Reports Server
• Russian SpaceWeb
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Yahoo: Space

  Stars, Clusters and Constellations

• Constellations and Their Stars (University of Wisconsin)
  Explains constellations, lists stars and myths about them.
• StarDate Online (University of Texas)
  Excellent educational astronomical site.
• Star Pages (University of Strasbourg)
  Directories, dictionaries, and databases related to astronomy and space science.

  Teaching

• Cyber Astronomy
  Interactive 3D tour of the solar system.
• Lunar Phases Web Tool (Calvin College)
• Views of the Solar System
• Windows to the Universe (University of Michigan)

  Miscellaneous

• Rise and Set Times for the Sun and Moon and Other Astronomical Applications (U. S. Naval Observatory)
• WWW Tide and Currrent Predictor
  Ocean tide predictions.