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Current Topics Recent Topics Research Institutions
Research Project Pages Societies/Organizations Astronomy Archives
Resource Collections Misc Astronomy Links Related Areas

________Current Topics________

  • Sky & Telescope
    Astronomy news from the online version of the magazine Sky & Telescope
  • Astronomy.com
    Astronomy news from the online version of the magazine Astronomy
  • Astronomy Now Online
    Astronomy news from the online version of the British magazine Astronomy Now
  • Universe Today
    Space Exploration News from Around the Internet
  • Space.com News
    News from & about numerous space-related fields
  • Astronomy Digest
    Astronomy news and links to resources on the net
  • NASA JPL's Space Calendar
    Space events and anniversaries in the coming year
  • SpaceBuffs.com
    Astronomy news, astrophoto gallery and discussion forums
    (commercial with substantial free content)

    ________Recent Topics________

  • Comet Hale-Bopp Info Page
    (maintained by Charles S. Morris of NASA JPL, who is an MSU Astrophysics alumnus)
  • Comet Hale-Bopp Page (JPL)
  • Comet Hyakutake Page (JPL)
  • Comet Shoemaker-Levy Page (JPL)

    ________Research Institutions____________

  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Center for Advanced Space Studies, Universities Space Research Association & NASA's Johnson Space Center, home of the Lunar & Planetary Institute (with planetary databases)
  • NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center
  • Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
  • Arecibo Radio Telescope

    ________Research Project Pages___________

  • The Hubble Deep Field
  • The MaCHO Project
  • Project Galileo: (probe to Jupiter and its moons)
  • The International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) page
    (hosted by Anomalies, makers of Asteroid PRO occultation prediction software for Mac and MS DOS & Windows environments)
  • APS Project Home Page (Automated Plate Scanner)
  • A VLA FIRST Survey Home Page at STScI
  • MSAM/TopHat Collaboration
    studying the cosmic microwave background radiation's medium-scale anisotropy
  • SETI@home distributed computing project
    (a Windows screensaver program which does useful analysis on a chunk of radio telescope data)

    ________Societies/Organizations_____

  • American Astronomical Society
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • British Astronomical Association
  • Isle of Man Astronomical Society (in the United Kingdom)
  • International Planetarium Association
  • Great Lakes Planetarium Association

    ________Astronomy Archives__________

  • Astrophysics eprints at LANL
  • High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (X-ray & Gamma Ray Astrophysics data and analysis tools)
  • NASA's ADS at Colorado (Astrophysics Data System) and another mirror at ADS at Harvard
  • Catalogues at Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center (CDS)
  • STELAR Project, (NASA Goddard)
    Refereed scientific literature available on line

    ________Astronomy Resource Collections___

  • AstroWeb: Astronomy resources on the Internet listing at NRAO
  • Star*s Resources (astronomy, space sciences)
  • Robert Lentz's Astronomy Resources
  • FITS archive at NRAO, info about the FITS data format and implementation
  • The-Science-Lab.com Astronomy, the Astronomy section of a commercial science resource directory, with categorized links to many astronomy resources
  • The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • NASA Information Services via World Wide Web
  • Cosmic Link: Links to the Cosmos
  • AstroNet Search Engine Portal
  • The Yahoo! Science: Astronomy section
    (Yahoo! was formerly run for fun by some students at Stanford; it went commercial in a big way, making the aforementioned Stanford students millionaires)

    ________Misc Astronomy Links_____________

  • NASA JPL's Comet Observation Home Page
    (where information resides even for comets which haven't hit The Big Time yet and need to be moved to other web servers to handle the extra traffic)
  • Guide to Stars and Galaxies from Bradford University. Educational.
  • Icarus, the International Journal of Solar System Studies
  • Astronomy Today (online magazine)
  • The Space Educators' Handbook from NASA
  • Weaving the Astronomy Web Conference, Strasbourg, France, 6-7 April 1995 (just before the Third International World-Wide Web Conference)
  • Solar System News by Dave Kropp of the Michigan Science Teachers Association.
  • The Amateur Astronomer's Notebook from some folks at the Vermont State College system.
  • Woodstock Products, vendor of astronomical photographs, posters, books, etc.
  • Space Images, vendor of astronomical & space travel-related photographs and posters.
  • Portable Planetariums Home, Argentinian/Russian manufacturor of "portable planetariums" (inflatable opaque plastic domes with projection equipment).

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