HotSites --19Jan98
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Astronomy & Aerospace
- American Astronomical Society -- Includes link to Astrophysical Journal Electronic Edition
- Antique Telescope Society -- Glenn Oclassen
- Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards -- NASA
- Astronomical Museum | Museo della Specola -- Università di Bologna
- Astronomy Magazine -- Kalmbach Publishing
- Astronomy Picture of the Day -- NASA
- Astronomy Thesaurus -- Compiled by Robyn M. Shobbrook & Robert R. Shobbrook, Sydney University, with web interface by David Fullagar
- AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources -- Bob Jackson's massive collection of astonomy resources
- Aurora Page -- Information, links and images about the Northern Lights
- Awestruck by the Majesty of the Heavens -- Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago
- Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne -- Agence spatiale canadienne
- CBS News - Up to the Minute - Space -- CBS News Space Consultant William Harwood
- Center for Earth & Planetary Studies -- National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
- Comet Observation -- Charles S. Morris, NASA
- Constellations -- Richard Dibon-Smith
- Elementary Astronomy Notes -- These notes were created by Nick Strobel for the introductory astronomy courses he teaches at Bakersfield College.
- European Space Agency
- Expanding Universe: A Classified Search Tool for Amateur Astronomy -- Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library
- FLASH -- Breaking news stories from Goddard Space Flight Center
- Galileo Project Information -- National Space Science Data Center
- Geophysical Institute Auroral Activity Forecasts -- University of Alaska
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
-- Online version of the second edition of Martin V. Zombeck's technical reference book published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press
- Hubble Space Telescope News -- Space Science Telescope Institute
- Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures -- Jonathan Eisenhamer, Space Telescope Science Institute
- Institute for Advanced Studies -- Princeton, New Jersey. Astrophysics
page has a list of Natural Sciences electronic journals with full-text access
- Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics -- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), California Institute of Technology. Provides a site directory, a description of their missions, and an information archive.
- Kennedy Space Center
- Kopernik Astronomical Society
- Liftoff to Space Exploration -- Marshall Space Flight Center site enables users to find the precise location of the Mir space station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other orbiting satellites and any of the shuttles when they are in orbit
- Mars Exploration Program -- NASA
- Mars Global Surveyor -- Real time updates
- Mars Pathfinder Mission -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory; or try this mirror site at Cornell
- Marshall Space Flight Center -- NASA
- Mir Space Station
- Mount Wilson Observatory -- Pasadena, California
- NASA Center Libraries
- NASA Shuttle Web -- Provides live tracking during missions
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- National Air & Space Museum -- Washington, D.C.
- National Space Science Data Center -- Their
Photo Gallery includes images of Mars
- Near Live Comet Watching System -- NASA
- Nicholas Copernicus: "De revolutionibus" -- Manuscript from the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Krakow, Poland
- Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System -- Bill Arnett
- Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe -- An exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford on the sixteenth-century Danish astronomer
- Observatorium -- "Public access site for Earth and space data" includes headlines, weekly observation, games, data, images; NASA Remote Sensing Public Access Center
Planetarium Web Sites -- Loch Ness Productions
- Planetary Society -- "The Planetary Society was founded in 1980 by Drs. Carl Sagan, Bruce Murray and Louis Friedman to encourage the exploration of our solar system and the search for extraterrestrial life." It provides "over 550 pages of information about space exploration and more than 480 images, artwork and other graphics. It is an on-going labor of love on the part of volunteers and dedicated professionals." Site highlights include a section for Young Explorers, Hot Topics, Great Space Place with links to the Society's publications, and Spacegate , a collection of other internet space resources.
- Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
-- NASA site offers "just-released images and data from Jupiter" as well as Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases
- Royal Astronomical Society -- London
- Royal Greenwich Observatory
- Sky Online -- Provides a Tables of Contents pages for their publications
Sky & Telescope,
CCD Astronomy: the Magazine of Electronic Imaging and
SkyWatch 98: Your Guide to Stargazing and Space Exploration.
Other highlights include Sky & Telescope's Weekly News Bulletin, with back issues, stargazing tips in
This Week's Sky at a Glance, a
Comet Page, and
SkyLinks: Astronomy Online, a collection of astronomy- and space-related resources on the Internet.
- SOHO Summary Database -- NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, an observational satellite providing researchers with the first long-term and uninterrupted look at the Sun
- Space Agencies -- Astro Web Consortium provides annotated links to space programs and agencies worldwide
- Space Calendar -- "Space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 750 links to related home pages"; maintained by Ron Baalke, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
- StarChild Project -- NASA's "learning center for young astronomers"
- Stephen Hawking's Universe -- PBS
- Today@NASA
- University of California Observatories & Lick Observatory -- Santa Cruz
- U.S. Space Camp -- Huntsville, Alabama
- Views of the Solar System -- Calvin J. Hamilton, Los Alamos National Laboratories. (Also available in Spanish and
Portuguese.)
- Virtual Library: Aerospace -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
- Virtual Tour of the Sun -- Michiel Berger, the Netherlands
- Virtual Trips to Back Holes and Neutron Stars -- Robert Nemiroff, Michigan Technological University
- Welcome to the Planets -- "Collection of many of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration program"
- Welcome to Mars! -- Information on the Mars Pathfinder Mission from the American Museum of Natural History
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