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GENERAL ASTRONOMY TOPICS

Astrometry.net: http://astrometry.net/

Sloan Digital Sky Survey - http://cas.sdss.org/dr2/en/ This website presents data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make a map of a large part of the universe. We would like to show you the beauty of the universe, and share with you our excitement as we build the largest map in the history of the world.

AstroWeb Links: http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html

Below you can learn all you need to know about the Earth and Universe.

1. SPACE 2. NASA 3. SHUTTLE 4. UNIVERSE 5. ASTRONOMY 6. MAPS

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(ScienceIQ.com) Delivers fascinating and engaging science facts daily to your email, and offers an extensive science facts online archive. Topics are diverse and range from the human mind to nanotechnology, and from basic scientific concepts to the latest discoveries.

First Person A video series profiling JPLers and their work. + View video in RealPlayer Senior robotics engineer Dr. Edward Tunstel describes how rovers are developed and tested on Earth and how the current Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are put to work on the red planet. Please visit the Mars Exploration Rover site for more rover information.

Courtesy JPL/NASA

Best general astronomy book for amateur astronomers and those wanting an easy to read description and understanding of astronomy.

Best in-depth introduction to astrophysics book below. Requires some math abilities to fully appreciate.

FORMULAS

Astronomy Formulas by James Q. Jacobs Astronomy Formulas II, By James Q. Jacobs Yahoo! Directory Astronomical Calendars > Formulas and Constants SCI.SPACE FAQ No. 04 - space/math Graham Pattison's CCD Astronomy - Telescope Formula's Astronomy Formulas Definition of Astronomy - wordIQ Dictionary & Encyclopedia [DOC] FORMULAS FOR ASTRONOMY

[DOC] FORMULAS FOR ASTRONOMY

EARTH'S SOLAR SYSTEM

Calculate distances (REAL TIME) between solar system planets and the sun. Click HERE. Solar System Live

Solar System Running Dynamics - Orbital data (java). Click Here

Interactive Java Solar System Model with data. Click HERE

Solar X-rays: Geomagnetic Field:

From http://www.n3kl.org/sun/

Link to current sun image at high resolution. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/latest_eit_304_full.gif

SUN STORMS - The Movie!! - HERE

About the Sun by the High Altitude Observatory (a good website for beginners)

Sunblock '99 Edinburgh International Science Festival. Take some tours to explore various aspects of the Sun. Middle School Level.

Boundless Universe - What's the Sun

Yohkoh Public Outreach Page Tour of the Sun- Surfing for Sunbeams! (Lockheed). Also see Yohkoh below.

Curious About Astronomy? The Sun Cornell University.

SOHO Explore Page More about SOHO on the Solar Missions Page.

Why the Sun Shines by Wesley Colley, September 25, 1997, Suite101.Com

How the Sun Shines Nobel Prize website article.

Here Comes the Sun BBC Weather Centre Online

Here Comes the Sun Plymouth State College Weather Center

Information about the Sun Astrocappella

Astronomy in Motion: The Sun (grade school level)

The Sun Athena, Earth and Space Science for K-12

See Time & Navigation. The Sun Peoria Astronomical Society

The Sun Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Australia) (At a high school level.)

Listening to the Sun Australian Broadcasting Corp. Solar radio observing in 1952.

Pulse of The Planet, January 2000 - Sounds of the Sun

Solar Max 2000.com - Presented By the Exploratorium

Sunspots- The Exploratorium's Guide to Sunspots

Sunspots and the Solar Cycle NASA sponsored website.

The Sunspot Cycle Mount Wilson Observatory

Sunspots and the Solar Maximum NASA Earth Observatory website.

Sunspot Index Data Center Royal Observatory of Belgium.

ASTRO 201 General Topics (Cornell Univ. course), Structure and Evolution of Star:

Nick Strobel's Astronomy Lecture Notes

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Univ. of Tennessee

ASTR1120-002 General Astronomy II: Stars & Galaxies Course notes by Richard McCray @ Univ. of Colorado:

ASTR 103 - Astronomy Supplement Text Contents George Mason University

The Sun: An Introduction to Magneto Hydrodynamics (MHD) St Andrews University (UK) Notes for an advanced undergraduate course. The Introduction section has a nice overview of our knowledge of the Sun.

UCSB Astrophysics Web SunSpots Interactive Lab the UC Santa Barbara Interactive Astrophysics Arcade

A Virtual Tour of the Sun

Layers of the sun Plasmas - the 4th State of Matter

Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Astronomy:

by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff. May 2001. Harvard University Press.

Gunther Groenez's Solar Observing and Astrophotography An amateur solar observer in Belgium with his work and many useful links.

Tony Smith:

Beginner's Radio Propagation Primer AE4RV A.R.T.S. Club Technet

Solar Oscillations Investigations (Stanford)

Helioseismology:

The Sun, The Solar Wind, and The Corona SPARTAN

The Solar Wind The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere

Solar Flare Tutorial NASA GSFC Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics

Overview of Solar Flares High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (HESSI)

National Solar Observatory / Sacramento Peak

Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center associated with the ACE spacecraft:

BASS 2000 - French solar data base Includes images and solar spectrum data.

Space Weather.Com NASA

Lycos Link Directory- Science - Astronomy - Solar Astronomy

The Solar Neutrino Problem

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