- University of Oregon Astronomy Home Page
- Take a look at the Educational Materials section (e.g., Astronomy Hypertext resource).
URL --> http://zebu.uoregon.edu/galaxy.html
- NASA Kennedy Space Center
- The Kennedy Space Center (KSC) was built in the early 1960's as the departure point for Project Apollo's manned explorations of the moon. Today KSC has primary responsibility for ground turnaround and support operations, prelaunch checkout and launch of the Space Shuttle and its payloads, including NASA's eventual Space Station.
URL --> http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the lead U.S. center for robotic exploration of the solar system. JPL spacecraft have visited all known planets except Pluto. JPL's main site is at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California.
URL --> http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
- American Astronomical Society
- The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the major professional organization in North America for astronomers and other scientists and individuals interested in astronomy.
URL --> http://www.aas.org/
- Russian Academy of Sciences Space Research Institute (IKI)
- The leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe.
URL --> http://arc.iki.rssi.ru/Welcome.html
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Home Page
URL --> http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/NASA_homepage.html
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- The Center for Astrophysics combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe.
URL --> http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/
- University of Washington Astronomy Department
- The University of Washington Astronomy Department is located in Seattle, Washington. This site has many Astronomy related educational resources.
URL --> http://www.astro.washington.edu/
- Villanova University Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Villanova University Astronomy & Astrophysics Department Home page. Text and some computer illustrations for astronomy and physics experiments.
URL --> http://astro4.ast.vill.edu/
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is the largest general astronomy society in the world.
URL --> http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/asp/asp.html
- National Space Society
- (NSS) is described as a "grass-roots,
educational organization promoting space development."
URL --> http://www.global.org/bfreed/nss/nss-home.html
- Web pages for UK amateur astronomy
- Under this top level page are sections for every major amateur astronomy organisation in the UK.
URL --> http://www.emoticon.com/emoticon/astro/
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System) document and patches,radioastronomy image processing, AIPS++ Development
URL --> ftp://baboon.cv.nrao.edu/pub/
- American Astronomical Society
- General society and meeting information
URL --> ftp://blackhole.aas.org/
- University of Oregon
- CCD images, spectra, astronomical catalogs, weather maps
URL --> ftp://bovine.uoregon.edu/pub/
- Centre de Donnees de Strasbourg
- SIMBAD database, catalogues and A&A tables
URL --> ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/
- NASA
- Utilities and papers (not necessarily astronomical)
URL --> ftp://csab.larc.nasa.gov/pub/
- NASA Ames Research Center
- Images from all major space missions, mission press kits, an on-line CD-ROMS of planetary mission data
URL --> ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/space/
- Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
- Images
URL --> ftp://ftp.cnam.fr/pub/astro/
- European Space Agency
- Agency press releases
URL --> ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/
- European Southern Observatory
- Observatory information
URL --> ftp://ftp.hq.eso.org/pub/
- 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/
- NASA Headquarters
- General administrative information and the NASA Phone List
URL --> ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- JPL news, press releases, images and mission status reports
URL --> ftp://ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/
- Universite de Rennes I - France
- Images and animations
URL --> ftp://ftp.univ-rennes1.fr/pub/Images/ASTRO/
- Technical University of Vienna
- Planetary and astronomical images
URL --> ftp://gipsy.vmars.tuwien.ac.at/pub/spacegifs/
- Saint Mary's University Halifax, Canada
- Conversion from SBIG CCD files to FITS format and software
URL --> ftp://hercules.stmarys.ca/pub/
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- JPL information, images and space news
URL --> ftp://jplinfo.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Archive for GSFC missions (CGRO, IRAS, XTE, etc.)
URL --> ftp://legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Vista image processing software, Lick CCD Development Lab
URL --> ftp://lick.ucsc.edu/pub/
- Finnish University
- Astronomical information and software
URL --> ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/astro/
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- HST, IUE, Astro-1, COBE, NSSDCA info, FITS standard
URL --> ftp://nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
- JPL news, status reports and images
URL --> ftp://pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov/
- University of Arizona SEDS
- Astronomical information and images
URL --> ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/
- Stanford Exploration Project
- Files of general interest to Earth Scientists,publicly distributable software invented, developed, or used at SEP
URL --> ftp://sepftp.stanford.edu/pub/astro/
- NASA
- NASA Langley technical reports
URL --> ftp://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/pub/techreports/larc/
- University of Hawaii Satellite Oceanography Laboratory
- Images, animations and satellite elements
URL --> ftp://satftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/
