Hot Astro Links
Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum
Overview of Chicago Space Museum
http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/history/
75th Anniversary Astronomical Debate
Scientific Discussions on the Universe
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Astronomy & Astrophysics on the Web
Scores of Space Sites
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/astroweb.html
The Astronomy Cafe
Beginner's Guide to Astronomy
http://www.theastronomycafe.net/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Photos of the univese
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Ganymede Images
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo
Exploratorium, California
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
National Air and Space Museum
http://www.nasm.edu
Planetariums
http://www.astronomy.org/chaco/index.html
http://www.chabotspace.org/
Science On-Line; virtual museums
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SII/
Discovery Channel On-Line
http://www.discovery.com/guides/space/space.html
Galaxies
The
Galaxy Catalog
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~frei/galaxy_catalog.html
The
Shapley-Curtis Debate in 1920
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate20.html
Transcript of the well-publicized debate between Harlow Shapley and Eber Curtis,
regarding whether or not the Universe is one big galaxy. Extensive background
information available at the site.
Galaxy
Collisions on a CD-ROM
http://www.virtualstar.fsbusiness.co.uk/
Galaxy Collider from Virtual Star, Ltd. allows you to design simulations
of colliding galaxies and watch from any angle.
Big Bang
Ned
Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
History
of the Universe Timeline
http://www.pbs.org/deepspace/timeline/index.html
An interactive timeline of the Universe; from a split second after the Big
Bang, until trillions of years in our future.
Hot
Big Bang - Cambridge
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bb_home.html
This tour introduces the Big Bang cosmology and its successes, while
emphasizing its incompleteness and the areas in which Cambridge Relativity
group members are working.
Dark Matter
Mysterious
Dark Matter
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/MystDarkMatter.html
Prof.
Martin White: Dark Matter
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/dm.html
An essay on dark matter with links to further resources.
Jonathan
Dursi's Tutorial Page
http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~dursi/tutorials.html
A tutorial on dark matter written by a graduate student.
The
Particle Adventure
http://particleadventure.org/
The fundamentals of matter and force are presented as a particle adventure. An
award-winning interactive tour of quarks, neutrinos, antimatter, extra
dimensions, dark matter, accelerators and particle detectors.
History
Astronomiae
Historia
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html
Currently contains more than 400 files (Web pages), which would give several
thousand pages on paper if printed out. Designed as a general history of
astronomy, it is especially strong on biographical information for famous
astronomers.
Starry
Messenger
http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/
A site which covers the science and people of early astronomy: from the ancient
greek period until Galileo and the 17th century astronomical renaissance.
Speed
of Light
http://www.what-is-the-speed-of-light.com/
A historical timeline of attempts to measure the speed of light, beginning with
Galileo's lantern experiment.
Apollo
- Expeditions to the Moon
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/cover.html
A book about the Apollo program written by those who took part in it. Fully
online, it includes chapters from Wernher von Braun, a prominent figure in post-WWII
rocketry, and lunar explorer Alan B. Shepard.
Encyclopedia
Astronomica
http://www.astronautix.com/
Further resources about the history of space flight.
Observatories
Large
Telescopes
http://www.seds.org/billa/bigeyes.html
A hyperlinked list of the world's largest telescopes; from here you can access
the homepages of over 50 observatories.
National
Optical Astronomy Observatory
http://www.noao.edu/
Responsible for several observatories including Kitt Peak.
National
Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/
Responsible for the VLA, VLBA, and Green Bank.
The
Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
Since its launch on July 23, 1999, Chandra has been NASA's flagship mission for
X-ray astronomy. Now you can see computer-enhanced pictures and read the latest
discoveries made with this orbital observatory.
Q & A
The
Astronomy Cafè
http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/cafe.html
The Astronomy Cafè was a book based on the Q & A format. This site offers
thousands of questions and answers.
The
Cosmology FAQ
http://arcturus.mit.edu/ask/faq.html
This "Ask an MIT Cosmologist" series provides answers to questions
about time, the universe, black holes, and more.
Stephen
Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Hawking is an award-winning Cambridge physicist and travelling lecturer who came up with the
idea of tiny black holes. Some of his lectures have been published at his
website, with titles such as "The Beginning of Time" and "The
Nature of Space and Time."
Image Galleries
NASA
- Visible Earth
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
A searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the Earth.
NASA
- Planetary Photojournal
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
JPL's image database consists mainly of solar system images - planets, moons,
and space debris. There are also some sections on space exploration, and the
universe at large.
The
Messier Catalog
http://www.seds.org/messier/
A guide to the 110 objects recognized as the standard Messier catalog. For each
object, an image is presented together with a short description; click on the
image to get a larger-format version.
HubbleSite
http://hubble.stsci.edu/
Made to celebrate the telescope's 10th year in space, this site is a collection
of some of Hubble's top photos and discoveries.
William
Keel's Gallery
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/agn/
Quasars and active galaxies.
Astronomy Publications
Astronomy
Magazine
http://www.astronomy.com/
Sky
& Telescope Magazine
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/
Star
Gazer
http://www.jackstargazer.com/
Star Gazer is billed as the world's only weekly television series on
naked-eye astronomy. Each episode features selected objects for observing over
the following week. The episodes are between 1 and 5 minutes long and can be
downloaded in streaming video (RealPlayer) if you missed the PBS broadcast.
InfoTrac College Edition
http://infotrac.thomsonlearning.com/
Thomson Learning brings you over 14 million online articles from a variety of
magazines and newspapers.
News
NOVA
- PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
These companion sites offer some of the latest in feature stories, in an
accessible and graphically rich way. Based on the weekly science series NOVA.
Marshall Space Flight Ctr. News
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/
The press release headquarters for NASA's Marshall Center focuses on space flight and orbital
experiments.
Science@NASA
http://science.nasa.gov/
This site has a double goal: to help the public understand how exciting NASA
research is and to help NASA scientists fulfill their outreach
responsibilities.
StarStuff
http://www.starstuff.org/
This site is designed to allow the experimenters themselves to write about
astronomical discoveries in a public forum. Supported in part by the Space
Telescope Science Institute.
Organizations
International
Astronomical Union
http://www.iau.org/
Founded in 1919, this organization defined the modern constellations and today
names celestial objects.
Astronomical
Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/
Founded in 1889 by a group of professional and amateur astronomers who met to
view a rare total solar eclipse, they publish Mercury magazine, aimed at
a similar audience of pros and hobbyists. The ASP also organizes educational
shows and events, some of which are online and some of which require live
participation.
Sidewalk
Astronomers
http://www.sidewalkastronomers.com/
A network of West Coast amateur astronomers. They organize night-time field
trips, and demonstrations on how to build your own telescope.