Links and resources
The Very Large Array at Green Bank, WV. Image courtesy of NRAO/AUI and Photographer Kelly Gatlin; Digital composite - Patricia Smiley
Current news
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Space.com
- Spaceweather.com
- Today at NASA; or Science at NASA
- Sky and Telescope's News page
- Science News Online
- NASA spaceflight page, including realtime locations for the space station.
- The Walla Walla Clear Sky Chart
Mission pages, observatories
- NASA Space Science missions homepage
- Galileo Mission homepage
- Cassini Mission homepage.
- Chandra Mission homepage
- Mars Exploration homepage
- YOHKOH Public Outreach Project
- Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Space Telescope Institute or alt site to STScI.
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Ames Research Center
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Marshall Space Flight Center
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- National Solar Observatory
- SOHO
- TRACE
- The Anglo-Australian Observatory
- Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
- NOAA Space Environment Center
- Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
- GOES satellite homepage
- Sudbury Neutrino Observartory
Graduate programs, internships
- GRE homepage from ETS
- gradschool guide from AIP
- NSF listing of REU sites (Research Experience for Undergraduates) in Physics, Materials science, and Astronomy
- Internships at all NASA sites
- Space Telescope Science Institute summer student program
- AAS Career Services page
- AAS list of astronomy REU sites
Reference
- NASA Astrophysics Data System (papers, abstracts)
- arXiv preprints
- Internet Public Library from the University of Michigan
- Penrose Library's astronomy databases (Web of Science and Encycl. of Astronomy & Astrophysics from the Inst of Physics)
- The Nine Planets Homepage
- Messier objects
- Active galaxies and Quasars
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
- National Air & Space Museum's Apollo page
- Zombeck Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Stars and Constellations; also "Skylights", an astro news of the week page (Jim Kaler, at Univ. Illinois)
- Element info from American Elements
Education
- Multiwavelength Astronomy image gallery
- JPL's solar system simulator
- NASA's "Visible Earth"
- STScI Explorations in Education
- Goddard Space Flight Center "Imagine the Universe"
- STScI Amazing Space (K-12 resources)
- Visualize the solar system with National Geographic.
- Powers of 10 at Florida State Univ.
- Atlas of the Universe lets you move out from the Sun in steps of about 10x
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