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Chapter 1: Discovering the Night Sky

SKY Online - Sky & Telescope Magazine

Published since 1941, Sky & Telescope magazine is an important source of astronomy news and information. Each monthly issue contains reports on the latest discoveries from the world's great observatories and space telescopes, sky maps, astrophotos, and observation tips for astronomy enthusiasts of all levels.

URL --> http://www.skypub.com/s_t/s_t.html

ASTRONOMY Magazine

Produced by Kalmbach Publishing Co., ASTRONOMY is the world's largest English-language magazine for astronomy hobbyists. Each month the magazine is read by over 300,000 astronomy enthusiasts.

URL --> http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html

Solar Eclipse Paths: 1995 - 2000

The NASA eclipse bulletins are provided as a public service to the international astronomical community and contain detailed predictions, maps and meteorological data for future solar eclipses.

URL --> http://umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/predictions/eclipse-paths.html

Griffith Observatory

The Griffith Observatory is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks. The Observatory's own monthly magazine contains fascinating articles by prominent writers.

URL --> http://www.csun.edu/~hbphy003/

Chapter 2: Gravitation and the Waltz of the Planets

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Chapter 3: Light and Telescopes

Yerkes Observatory

The Yerkes Observatory is located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin and is part of the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

URL --> http://astro.uchicage.edu/yerkes.html

Lick Observatory

University of California Observatories - Lick Observatory

URL --> http://www.ucolick.org/index.html

Gemini Project

The Gemini Project is an international partnership to build two 8-meter telescopes, one on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and one on Cerro Pachon, Chile.

URL --> http://www.gemini.edu/

Very Large Telescope (VLT)

ESO - Very Large Telescope Project

URL --> http://www.eso.org/vlt.html

Arecibo Observatory

The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by Cornell University under a Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation.

URL --> http://www.naic.edu/

Very Large Array (VLA)

The Very Large Array (VLA) is one of the world's premiere astronomical radio observatories. The VLA consists of 27 antennas arranged in a huge Y pattern up to 36km (22 miles) across.

URL --> http://info.aoc.nrao.edu/doc/vla/html/VLAhome.shtml

Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA)

NRAO's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is an array of 10 25-m diameter antennas distributed over United States territory.

URL --> http://info.aoc.nrao.edu/doc/vlba/html/VLBA.html

International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE)

The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) satellite was launched on the 26th of January 1978. IUE is a joint project between NASA, PPARC and ESA.

URL --> http://www.vilspa.esa.es/iue/iue.html

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Archive

URL --> http://bolero.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/iras/iras_home.html

Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE)

The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) is a NASA-funded astronomy mission operating in the largely unexplored extreme ultraviolet band. The science payload, consists of three grazing incidence scanning telescopes and an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer/deep survey instrument.

URL --> http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/html/sat_homepage.html

Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

Space Telescope Electronic Information Service

URL --> http://www.stsci.edu/

Palomar Observatory

Palomar Observatory is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology. The principal instruments at Palomar are the 200-inch Hale Telescope, the 48-inch Oschin Telescope, the 18-inch Schmidt telescope, and the 60-inch reflecting telescope.

URL --> http://astro.caltech.edu/palomar.html

Mauna Kea Observatories (Keck)

The Mauna Kea Observatories are located near the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

URL --> http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/mko.html

3.5-meter WIYN telescope

The 3.5-meter WIYN - (Wisconsin, Indiana, Yale, NOAO) - telescope at Kitt Peak was designed from the ground up with high-resolution CCD imaging in mind.

URL --> http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/

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Chapter 4: The Origin and Nature of Light

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Foundations II: The Solar System

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Chapter 5: The Earth and its Moon

Ozone Hotlist

Ozone Hotlist at The Earth System Science Community Project

URL --> http://www.gonzaga.pvt.k12.dc.us/ESSCC/curric/projex/atmos/viz/data_sourcing/ozone_hotlist.html

McDonald Observatory

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Astronomy and the McDonald Observatory home page.

URL --> http://www.as.utexas.edu/ut-astronomy.html

Project Apollo

THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND.... Project Apollo home page at Kennedy Space Center.

URL --> http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo.html

Earth

Earth page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/earthpage.html

Moon

Moon page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/moonpage.html

Kitt Peak

Kitt Peak National Observatory, part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories, is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

URL --> http://www.noao.edu/kpno/kpno.html

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Chapter 6: The Other Inner Planets

Mariner 10

The mission of MARINER 10 was the first to explore the planet Mercury. It was also the first American spacecraft to take photographs of Venus.

URL --> http://pdc.jpl.nasa.gov/Mariner10/Mariner10.html

Magellan

Launched from the Space Shuttle Atlantis in May 1989 Magellan arrived at Venus in August 1990. For the next four years the spacecraft used its sophisticated imaging radar to make a highly detailed map of Venus.

URL --> http://NewProducts.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/

Viking

The first robotic spacecraft to land on Mars -- the Vikings -- were sent on a mission in 1975 to determine whether life had ever existed in any primitive biological form on the red planet.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html

Mercury

Mercury page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics,solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/mercurypage.html

Venus

Venus page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/venuspage.html

Mars

Mars page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/marspage.html

Venus Hypermap

TheVenus HYPERMAP, is an attempt at making some of the vast quantities of data provided by the Magellan satellite available in an intuitive and informative way.

URL --> http://www.ess.ucla.edu/hypermap/Vmap/top.html

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Chapter 7: The Outer Planets

Voyager

Voyager Project Home Page

URL --> http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/voyager.html

Galileo

The Galileo Project is a NASA unmanned mission to explore the planet Jupiter and its surrounding moons and magnetosphere.

URL --> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/index.html

Pioneer

Launched on 2 March 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain closeup images of Jupiter. Launched on 5 April 1973, Pioneer 11 followed its sister ship to Jupiter (1974), made the first direct observations of Saturn (1979), and studied energetic particles in the outer heliosphere.

URL --> http://pyroeis.arc.nasa.gov/pioneer/PNhome.html

Jupiter

Jupiter page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/jupiterpage.html

Saturn

Saturn page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/saturnpage.html

Uranus

Uranus page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/uranuspage.html

Neptune

Neptune page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/neptunepage.html

Pluto

Pluto page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/plutopage.html

Shoemaker-Levy 9 Collision with Jupiter

Shoemaker-Levy 9 page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

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Chapter 8: Vagabonds of the Solar System

Mariner 2

Mariner 2 was the world's first successful interplanetary spacecraft. Launched August 27, 1962, Mariner 2 passed within about 34,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) of Venus. Mariner 2 provided valuable new information about interplanetary space and the Venusian atmosphere.

URL --> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mip/mnr2.html

Asteroids and Comets

Asteroids and Comets page at the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). The NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data.

URL --> http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planets/asteroidpage.html

International Astronomical Union Circulars

The International Astronomical Union Circulars (IAUCs) are a series of notices giving information about astronomical phenomena requiring prompt dissemination, particularly the discovery and follow-up of novae, supernovae and comets.

URL --> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/services/IAUC.html

International Comet Quarterly

The International Comet Quarterly (ICQ) is a non-profit scientific journal devoted to the study of comets. The ICQ is published by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

URL --> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/icq.html

Minor Planet Circulars

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is responsible for the collection and dissemination of astrometric observations and orbits for minor planets and comets, via the Minor Planet Circulars and the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars.

URL --> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/mpc.html

Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams

The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) is responsible for the dissemination of information on transient astronomical events, via the IAU Circulars (IAUCs).

URL --> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ps/cbat.html

Chapter 9: Our Star, the Sun

Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC)

The Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is a good site for the latest ground- and space-based solar images.

URL --> http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/

GONG Project home page

The GONG Project is a community-based program to conduct a detailed study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology.

URL --> http://helios.tuc.noao.edu/gonghome.html

Foundations III: An Invitation to the Stars

Hipparcos

The Hipparcos spacecraft was dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions, parallaxes and proper motions of the stars. Launched in August 1989 the satellite collected more than three years of extremely high-quality scientific data. Communications were terminated with the satellite in August 1993.

URL --> http://astro.estec.esa.nl/SA-general/Projects/Hipparcos/hipparcos.html

Chapter 10: The Nature of Stars

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Chapter 11: The Lives of Stars

Nebulae

A collection of stunning astronomical photographs of nebulae - clouds of gas, dust, or stars.

URL --> http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/

Variable Stars

Variable Star Web page at The Astronomer.

URL --> http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer/variables.html

VSNET

VSNET at Kyoto University has information on variable stars, especially cataclysmic variables (CVs) and related objects.

URL --> http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/

Chapter 12: The Deaths of Stars

Uhuru

Uhuru, also known as the Small Astronomical Satellite 1 (SAS-1) was the first earth-orbiting mission dedicated entirely to celestial X-ray astronomy. It was launched on December 12, 1970. The mission ended in March 1973.

URL --> http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/uhuru.html

Supernova Cosmology Project

Home Page of the Supernova Cosmology Project

URL --> http://panisse.lbl.gov/public/

Chapter 13: Black Holes

Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole? A neutron star? If so, you might find this page interesting. Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on such exciting trips.

URL --> http://cossc.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html

Black Holes FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Black Holes

URL --> http://physics7.berkeley.edu/BHfaq.html

Foundations IV: The Universe

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Chapter 14: The Milky Way Galaxy

Dark Matter

There is perhaps no current problem of greater importance to astrophysics and cosmology than that of "dark matter". The controversy, as the name implies, is centered around the notion that there may exist an enormous amount of matter in the Universe which cannot be detected from the light which it emits.

URL --> http://physics7.berkeley.edu/darkmat/dm.html

Chapter 15: Galaxies

Dwingeloo Observatory

The Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (NFRA) institute is located in the woods near Dwingeloo. The institute dates back to 1956 when the Dwingeloo 25 meter radiotelescope was inaugurated. At the time it was the worlds largest telescope, today it is the worlds oldest professionally used radiotelescope.

URL --> http://www.nfra.nl/nfra/facilities/dwingeloo_kort.html

Mount Wilson Observatory

Mount Wilson Observatory is operated by the Mount Wilson Institute. Much of the initial understanding of our Universe came from data acquired at this facility. Located just outside of Pasadena California in the San Gabriel Mountains, the observatory has a heritage dating from the beginning of this century, and continues to remain at the forefront of observational astronomy and astrophysics.

URL --> http://www.mtwilson.edu/

Lowell Observatory

Estiblished in 1894 by Dr. Percival Lowell, the Lowell Observatory operates eight telescopes in the Flagstaff area, plus a ninth at the Perth Observatory in Western Austrailia. Several of Lowell's telescopes are equipped with state-of-the-art electronic cameras, modern spectrographs, and other auxiliary instrumentation.

URL --> http://www.lowell.edu/

Chapter 16: Quasars and Active Galaxies

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Chapter 17: Cosmology

Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)

Launched on November 18, 1989 the COBE satellite was developed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to measure the diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe.

URL --> http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/astro/cobe/cobe_home.html

CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire)

CERN is one of the world's largest particle physics laboratories and an outstanding example of international collaboration. It is also where the World Wide Wide was first developed.

URL --> http://www.cern.ch/

Chapter 18: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

The SETI Institute Home Page has information about scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

URL --> http://www.seti-inst.edu/

Deep Space Network

NASA's Deep Space Network is the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications system and the most precise radio navigation network in the world. Its principal responsibilities are to support interplanetary spacecraft missions and radio and radar astronomy observations in the exploration of the solar system and the universe.

URL --> http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page.

URL --> http://www.nrao.edu/

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