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Government Sites

  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • NASA Home Page
    • Planet Quest: the search for another earth
      Descriptions of NASA missions to take place over the next 15 years to discover other new worlds.
    • Eclipse Bulletins
      Contains tables of predictions maps, photographs, and weather predictions. Available for eclipses in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999 and predictions to 2005. Includes links to other eclipse sites.
    • Eclipse Home Page
      From the Planetary Systems Branch of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, this site includes dates of forthcoming solar and lunar eclipses, as well as a 5,000 year catalog of solar eclipses (-1900 to +3000). There are also links to other eclipse sites.
    • Space Station and Shuttle News
      Includes real-time data on space stations and the shuttle, as well as info on exploration of Mars, the history of space exploration, and a gallery of images of various space flights. Daily space facts and sighting opportunities are also included.
  • Jet Propulsion Lab's Solar System Dynamics Group.

Contains detailed planetary information. Includes an On-Line Solar System Data and Ephemeris Computation Service.

Space Exploration

  • Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars
  • Lunar and Planetary Institute
    The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a focus for academic participation in studies of the current state, evolution, and formation of the solar system. The Institute is housed in the USRA Center for Advanced Space Studies (CASS), and includes a computing center, extensive collections of lunar and planetary data, an image-processing facility, a scientific visualization facility, an extensive library, publishing services, and facilities for workshops and conferences.
  • Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon.
    This is a digital edition of David E. Bowker and J. Kenrick Hughes' Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon with all 675 plates from their 1971 book. Searchable in many ways, including feature name, photo number, and coordinate. You can also browse in the Consolidated Lunar Atlas.

The Solar System

  • Deep Sky Database
    For amateur astronomers, users this database allows users to compile detailed and customized observing lists. There are over 10,000 records.
  • Exploratorium
    From the Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception, this is a very interesting and educational site. Find out how much you weigh or how old you would be on different planets. You can also use the provided calculator to build an accurate scale model of the solar system. Includes links to other web sites. Very interactive.
  • Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
    Subdivided into easily navigated sections -- Latest News, Overview of Detection Methods and Tutorials, Search for Life, Extrasolar Planets Bibliography and Reports, Meetings, Extrasolar Planets Catalog, and other web sites.
  • NASA Planetary Scence Research Discoveries
    Archive of full-length articles. Original articles that are peer reviewed by the advisory board. Articles arranged under broad topics (see the archive) and include bibliographic referencees and Internet links to primary sources and supplemental material.
  • The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
  • Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources - the StarPages
    International in scope, there is a searchable database containing over 6,000 entries, including links to about 5,000 other Web pages. Besides astronomy and space science, it includes fields such as remote sensing, engineering, and physics.
  • Views of the Solar System
    By Calvin J. Hamilton. Besides planetary images, there are sections on the history of space exploration, space crafts, early astronauts and space missions.
  • NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
  • NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
    NED is a database of about 750,000 objects with bibliographic references and basic data.
  • Messier Catalog
    This version of Charles Messier's Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters contains photographic records of the 110 different deep sky objects along with the history of each discovery and the origin of the object's name.
  • Your Sky
    This is an interactive planetarium of the Web. You can produce maps in the forms described below for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location.
  • Skymaps.com
    Features include a free monthly sky map for northern and southern hemispheres. You can sign up for email notification of when new sky maps are available.
  • Space Weather
    Explains space weather, space storms, and the role of the sun. Presents images of storms in the atmosphere and from space. Can get images of current conditions taken from various points.
  • Space Weather
    SpaceWeather.com is an excellent source for monitoring the sun-earth relationship using current space weather conditions and NASA news headlines. The topics include solar storms, solar flares, auroras, solar winds, sunspots, and interplanetary magnetic fields. There are also forecasts.

Space Policy

  • Space Policy Project Sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists.
    Sponsored by the Federation of American Scientists, this site "promotes American national security and international stability by providing the public and decision-makers with information and analysis on civil and military space issues, policies and programs."

Reference Tools

  • AAS Membership Directory (Updated weekly).
  • ARIBIB
    From the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg, this bibliographic service provides citations to literature from "the remote past until the middle of the year 2000." Very good for historical astronomy research.
  • Astronomy Tools Access to many useful resources including the following:
  • Astronomy Thesaurus
  • Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (2nd ed.) by Martin V. Zombeck.
  • History of Astronomy
    Begun in 1995, this resource was created on behalf of the working group for the history of astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft. Since March 1998 this site is also maintained on behalf of Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union. There are many useful links, including Astronomer Obituaries. You can also subscribe to an electronic newsletter on the history of astronomy.


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