ASTRONOMY LINKS

GENERAL ASTRONOMY

• Astronomy Picture of the Day - APOD
• NASA JPL
• APOD: 2002 February 12 - Methane Earth
• Astronomy resources (links from Prentice-Hall) click on DESTINATIONS
• Virtual Planetarium

OBSERVATORIES & PLANETARIUMS

• Goldendale Observatory State Park
• OMSI Murdock Planetarium
• Texas McDonald Observatory
• StarDate Online - Texas McDonald Observatory
• Griffith Observatory Home Page
• Griffith Observatory Sky Information
• Planets Gather in Evening Sky
• Sun's Daily Path Across the Sky
• OMSI Murdock Planetarium
• NRAO Very Large Array: General Public Information
• An Introduction to Radio Astronomy - NRAO

STAR CHARTS, & What's Happening NOW in the Sky

• Sky and Telescope - Sky at a Glance
• Astronomy - What's Up This Month - sky charts
• Abrams Planetarium - Skywatcher's Diary
• Abrams Planetarium - Sky Calendar - Subscribe! This is a great tool.
• OMSI Murdock Planetarium: Planet Finder
• BinoSky: A guide to astronomy with binoculars
• Welcome into the Dome! Try it. Learn the constellations.
• Orion
• Orion - The Hunter in the Sky
• What looks like a star across Orion's belt is actually a nebula.
• APOD: 2002 February 13 - The Great Nebula in Orion

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

• Galileo Project Observing Terrace
• Ptolemaic System
• Copernican System
• Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
• Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
• Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion NASA
• Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
• Galileo Demonstrates the Telescope
• Isaac Newton Explains the Solar System
• Sir Isaac Newton (164-1727)
• Retrograde Motion of planets (Science U)
• Heliocentric (Copernican) - Planetary Retrograde Motion
• The Apparent Motion of Planets on the Celestial Sphere

SOLAR SYSTEM

• Planetary Fact Sheets
• Astronomy 161: The Solar System
• Schoolyard Solar System
• Welcome to the Planets (NASA)
• Solar System Exploration (NASA)
• Solar System Exploration - Planets (NASA)
• NASA Our Solar System
• The Nine Planets
• Views of the Solar System
• How Big is the Solar System? - The Thousand-Yard Model
• The Ecliptic Plane
• Your Weight On Other Worlds
• 3-D Tour of the Solar System
• Planet Quiz Show
• Earth's Atmosphere
• Earth Viewer
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• JPL Images - Deep Space 1 - Comet Borrelly Flyby
• NASA Spacecraft Finds Comet Has Hot, Dry Surface
• Meteors, Meteorites and Impacts - (The Nine Planets)
• Terrestrial Impact Craters
• Earth Impact Database
• Terrestrial Impact Cratering and Its Environmental Effects
• Tektites photos
• The Solar System: Composition - The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council [PPARC] science
• PSRD: First Rock in the Solar System
• ISTAT Astronomy: The Solar System - Scale and Orientation
• Essential elements - Abundance of elements
• Abundance of Elements in the Solar System
• NASA'S Solar System Exploration Page
• NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets
• NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Saturn: Moons: Enceladus
• NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets - Solar System 101 Scale of the Solar System
• BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Saturn moon delights and baffles

Origin of the Solar System

• Building Planets at PSI: The Origin of the Solar System
• The Origin of the Moon (PSI)
• Introduction to Cratering Studies (PSI)

• LCC Historical Geology WEB LINKS - Precambrian Geology



The TERRESTRIAL PLANETS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Earth

• EARTH - The Nine Planets site
• Welcome to Planet Earth APOD
• The GEOSPHERE Check it out!
• NASA Earth Observatory Lots of great information & images!
• NASA's Visible Earth Great images & useful text



Earth-Sun Relationships, some LINKS

• Weird Sunset - Partial Solar ECLIPSE - Mon., June 10 about 5:00 p.m.
• The Summer Solstice, occurred on Friday, June 21, 2002 at 6:24 a.m. PDT Happy Summer!
• The Equinox
• The Winter Solstice
• Earth's Seasons, Equinoxes, etc. 1992-2005
• How does the Sun appear to move across our sky in the Northern Hemisphere?
• What is Earth Orientation? (Navy)
• Earth's Radiation Energy Balance (U Wisc)
• SunAngle
• SURFRAD



The MOON

• Lunation (Moon's Phases)
• Moon Phases on any day
• Moon Calendar
• The Origin of the Moon - Hartmann
• The Face of the Moon Galileo to Apollo
• Impact Moon - APOD


• Martian Volcanoes

The JOVIAN PLANETS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

• Galileo Project (JPL-NASA) - Jupiter - Be sure to see Jupiter: a planet revealed
• Jupiter's Atmosphere in Motion
• Cassini Images of Jupiter
• Jupiter And Its Galilean Moons
• Giant Lava Flow on Io
• Volcanic Plumes Near Prometheus (Io)
• New Moons For Saturn (22 total now!)

STARS

• BBC Science & Nature - Space - Stars
• BBC Science & Nature - Space - Star Types
• Orbital motion and Kepler's Laws
• How to draw an ellipse
• Astronomy 101/103 Web Simulations

Constellations and their Stars

• Stars and Star of the Week Information on Constellations and Stars
• Rigel
• Stars and Constellations
• Ursa Major
• The Electronic SkyConstellations and more
• Science Line - Night Patrol - Constellations
• Science Line - Night Patrol - Constellations - Rigel

Distance to Stars

• Stellar Parallax Explanation
• Stellar Distances - Parallax
• Stellar Parallax Demonstration
• Lecture 5: Stellar Distances
• Parallax Lab at UW -- Stellar Parallaxes
• Parallax Lab at UW -- HOME
• What is a light-year and how is it used?

H-R Diagram

• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram - UO Imamura
• Basics of the HR diagram - UO Soper
• HR Diagram Simulator
• Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) Diagram Description
• Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
• H-R Diagram
• HR Diagram - The Science Museum of Virginia
• Using the HR Diagram - The Science Museum of Virginia
• HR Diagram - Washington.edu
• Lecture 10: The H-R Diagram - Ohio State
• Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
• Stars, Some Properties
• The H-R Diagram

Stellar Evolution

• Birth, Life and Violent Death of Stars
• Stellar Evolution
• Properties of Stellar Remnants

Binary Stars

• Binary Stars
• Binary Star Motions
• APOD: February 19, 1997 - Mizar Binary Star

Spectroscopy

• The Electromagnetic Spectrum - Index page
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Spectra (spectroscopy)
• Spectroscopy
• Beginner's Guide to Spectroscopy
• Doppler Shift

The BIG BANG

• THE HOT BIG BANG MODEL
• Big Bang Science - exploring the origins of matter
• The Big Bang Theory
• Big Bang Cosmology Primer
• THE BIG BANG
• Doppler effect and shock wave

COSMOLOGY

• Origin of the Universe
• PSR Discoveries:Hot Idea: Origin of the Earth and Moon
• MARTIN WHITE
• Light Elements and the Origin of the Cosmic Rays
• Life in the Universe > Origin of Life > Conditions for Life
• Origin of Life: A Cosmic Perspective
• Elements and Minerals; Atomic Structure; Origin of Earth Materials
• Philosophy of Science