Astronomy Internet Library

Here are a list of astronomy links around the Internet. If you're doing research, these links provided should be just the starting points.

In The News

• Space Science News: from NASA
• Space Daily: News about commercial and government spacecraft.
• CNN Space News
• Science Daily
• LA Times Science News
• Space Weather: sunspots, solar flares, auroras, and other related "space weather"

Observing

• Weather Underground: Weather forcasts so you can find out if you can go stargazing tonight
• Your Sky gives a customized map of the sky tonight for your location.
• Track your favorite satellites in real time using J-Track Satellite Tracking.

Space Agencies/Professional Organizations

NASA Headquarters Here's where they direct the entire US civilian space program.
• The NASA Space Science Office has a complete list of currently operating space science missions (both Earth orbiting and elsewhere) associated with NASA.
• National Space Development Agency of Japan
• The Canadian Space Agency
• Russia's Space Research Institute (IKI)
• The European Space Agency
• China National Space Administration
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific The premier organization linking astronomy researchers and educators
• American Astronomical Society The main professional organization for astronomers in the US.
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

Observatories

• US Naval Observatory Astronomical Application Department and Timeservice(if you want to know what time it REALLY is).
• Griffith Park Observatory Both an observatory and LA's big planetarium.
• Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mtn's right above Pasadena.
• Mt Palomar Observatory in San Diego Cty. For decades, this was the largest telescope in the world.
• Keck Observatory on top of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Astronomy Clubs

• A list of Southern California Astronomy Clubs
• The Pomona Valley Amateur Astronomers meet in Galileo Hall at Harvey Mudd College.
• The Riverside Astronomical Society meets at La Sierra Univeristy.

Textbook and Magazines

• Addison Wesley - Astronomy The folks who publish your textbook
• Sky and Telescope Magazine -- Home Page
• Astronomy Magazine.
• Earth and Sky Homepage a astronomy radio show.

Multimedia Sites

• Various Animations compiled by Ed Stephan at Western Washington University
• Educational Space Simulations Project isn't an interactive site itself, but it has listings of several that are.
• Phases of the Moon form Chris Dolan
• Potential Energy from UOregon Virtual Laboratory.
• Asteroid Simulator from Chris Dolan.

Astronomy Classes and Departments

• Astronomy 1 (Bakersfield)
• Astronomy 121 at U. Oregon
• Physics, Math, and Astronomy at Caltech.
• Space Physics and Astronomy at Rice University
• Physics and Astronomy from UC Santa Barbara
• Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCLA.

General Astronomy Sites

• AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
• Got a question? Just Ask the Space Scientist from NASA!
• Johnson Space Center Digital Image Collection Human space exploration and earth observation images.
• Spacelink NASA resource for educators.
• Space Educators Handbook includes NASA Space Mathematics for all of those computations.
• Project Astro-New Mexico Student astronomy projects.
• The Ultimate Spaceplace has lots of stuff on space exploration and related collectables.
• Starry Skies
• Windows to the Universe is a basic tutorial on space and our solar system.
• General Astronomy Links has a lot more general astronomy links gathered by the folks at Miami University of Ohio.

Stars and Constellations

• Stars and Constellations
• Star Names
• StarsInt
• Myths about the Sky, Constellations, and Stars
• The Mythology of the Constellations

History of Astronomy

• Ptolemy, the Man
• Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy is a listing of many more history of astronomy web sites.
• A brief paper on Early Greek Astronomy
• Groundhog Day and Chinese Astronomy have more in common than you think!
• Introduction to the Scientific Method
• Caltech Image Archives includes images of numerous observatories and astronomers.

Physics

• Physical Science Resource Center
• A Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Laser Stars - History of Astronomical Spectroscopy
• Physics demonstrations, Science Exhibits (Bill B's Homepages)

The Solar System

• The Nine (or Eight?) Planets Everything you always wanted to know about the solar system.
• Solar System Simulator Incredible views of the solar system from anywhere!
• Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access Home Page
• Solar System Live gives the current position of the planets in our solar system. Inner Planets gives real time postions of the inner planets.
• USGS Flagstaff Solar System Browser
• Exploring the Planets with hands on activities.

The Moon

• The Clementine mission to the Moon.
• StarDate Online | Solar System Guide | Moon
• The Earth-Moon Viewer courtesy of Fourmilab

The Sun

• National Solar Observatory/Sacramento Peak Sunspot Numbers
• The Ulysses spacecraft has studied the Sun's poles.
• The SOHO mission is watching the activity on the Sun's surface.
• A great tutorial on the Earth-Sun connection

The Earth

• NASA's Mission to Planet Earth
• Earth's Geographical Atlas from Cornell University.
• Earth From Space: An Astronaut's Views from NASA.
• Great satellite images of Earth from Space Science and Engineering Center
• Maps of natural resources in urban environments from GreenMap.
• Biogeochemical cycles
• PSC Meteorology Program Cloud Boutique
• CLASSIFICATION OF CLOUDS
• The National Weather Service
• The Warming of the Earth from the Woods Hole Research Center.
• UCSB Geology - Freeware has animations of plate motions along the West Coast of North America
• Crustal Ages of the Sea Floor has images showing the ages of different parts of the Earth's ocean floor.
• The Story of Plate Tectonics from the US Geological Survey.
• All matters geological from Geology Link.
• Ask Geoman
• Find out about earthquakes at the US Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.
• Yes, the Earth has craters, too. Learn about them at Impact Structures on the Earth from the Geological Survey of Canada.
• All about volcanoes at North Dakota University's Volcano World.
• The Smithsonian Institute has a reports on volcanos at the Global Volcanism Program.
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere from NASA - Goddard

Planets

• Center for Mars Exploration from NASA-Ames.
• Mars Exploration from JPL
• The Galileo spacecraft mission to Jupiter from NASA
• The Cassini mission to Saturn
• A great discussion of magnetic fields by UCLA's Margaret Kivelson

Small Bodies in the Solar System (asteroids, comets, etc.)

• Plot of the Outer Solar System Shows the locations of some of the comets and other objects at the edge of our planetary system.
• The Canadian Space Agency's Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee has lots of information and links on the stuff that hits the Earth.
• Is the sky falling? The folks at the Near Earth Objects program at JPL are keeping track of potential impactors.

Planets Around Other Stars/Life on Other Worlds

• An introduction to Extrasolar Planets from some of the most prolific planet finders around!
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia is the directory for all known and suspected planets outside our solar system.
• Terrestrial Planet Finder, a project to detect Earth-like worlds in our universe from JPL.
• The SETI Page
• An On-Line Biology Book
• Astrobiology Web

Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

• The Cosmic Background Explorer gathered data and created this map of our universe in themicrowave region.
• High-energy Astrophysics Animations and Movies
• Animations on colliding galaxies and objects in different wavelengths.
• SEDS has a great site on the Messier Objects.
• The Chandra X-Ray Telescope is finding some of the hottest things in the universe.
• The Space Infrared Telescope Facility program.
• A survey of the entire sky in the infrared: The 2MASS Survey

Space Careers

• Space Careers
• How to be an astronaut.

Space Art

• Space Screen Savers
• William K. Hartmann - Space Art - Planetary Science, Mars, Moon
• Cosmographica: Don Dixon Space and Science Fiction Art
• Space Art on the Web - IAAA
• Spaceart.org
• Lynette Cook ~ Space

Other Fun Stuff

• The Bad Astronomy Page The best place to check up on rumors and "TV" astronomy
• Astrology test
• Skeptic's Dictionary: astrology
• CSICOP On-line
• Science and the Art of Skeptical Thought
• SLO Files: Home Page
• The Circlemakers: A site put together by some of the folks who make crop circles.
• The Science of Star Trek