International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) - Founded in Stockholm in 1960. IAA has brought together the world's foremost experts in astronautics to recognize the accomplishments of their peers, to explore and discuss cutting-edge issues in space research and technology, and to provide direction and guidance in the non-military uses of space and the ongoing exploration of the solar system.
International Astronomical Union (IAU) - Founded in 1919. Promotes astronomy through international cooperation. Individual members are professional astronomers worldwide, at the Ph.D. level or beyond.
Anglo-Australian Planet Search - A long-term program being carried out on the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to search for giant planets around 200 nearby Solar-type stars with V<7.5. The project uses the "doppler wobble" technique to search for these otherwise invisible extra-solar planets and to achieve the highest precision demonstrated by any Southern Hemisphere planet search.
Products - Almanacs, software, and web services provide precise astronomical data for practical applications, serving the defense, scientific, commercial, and civilian communities.
Publications - Astronomical and navigational almanacs, special publications, research reports.
Synthetic Views of the Earth and Solar System Bodies
Apparent Disk of Solar System Object - Creates a synthetic image of the telescopic appearance of the Moon or other solar system object for specified date and time.
Day and Night Across the Earth - Creates synthetic views of the Earth's surface (in grayscale or color) for any date and time.
Astronomy.com - News, feature stories, image gallery, parent and teacher resources, and beginners section from the publishers of Astronomy magazine.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of the universe along with brief explanation by a professional astronomer.
Bright Supernova - Occasionally, a large star reaching the end of its life collapses in on itself, then explodes violently. This type of explosion is called a Supernova. This page provides a listing of the latest Supernova with reference images.
Brown Dwarfs - Articles and bibliographies on brown dwarfs (substellar objects).
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corporation (CFHT) - Operates world class 3.6 meter telescope atop Mauna Kea, a dormant Hawaiian volcano 4,200 meters above the Pacific ocean. CFHT hosts unique instruments, such as MegaPrime, a wide-field high resolution CCD mosaic of 36 CCDs; CFHT-IR, an infra-red imager; PUEO, an adaptive optics bonette; MOS, the Multi Object Spectrograph; and, Gecko, a very high resolution spectrograph.
Chandra X-ray Observatory Center - Since its launch on July 23, 1999, Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy.
Deep Sky Database - A tool for amateur astronomers who love to pursue deep sky objects. Employs web-based version of the Saguaro Astronomy Club's database, consisting of over 10,000 records, allowing amateur astronomers to compile detailed and customized observing lists.
Digital Lunar Orbital Photographic Atlas of the Moon - The Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon by Bowker and Hughes (NASA SP-206) is considered the definitive reference manual to global photographic coverage of the Moon.
ESA Science: Hipparcos - Unique to Europe, Hipparcos was the very first space mission for measuring the positions, distances, motions, brightness and colours of stars.
Exploring Mars - Explore the planet Mars with realistic Mars habitats, rockets, ground cars and robots.
Gemini 8m Telescopes Project - Multi-national effort to build twin 8.1 meter astronomical telescopes utilizing new technology to produce some of the sharpest views of the universe ever.
HEASARC - The HEASARC is a source of gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources. This site provides access to archival data, analysis software, documentation, educational and outreach material, as well as many general astronomical tools to obtain multiwaveband images of the sky and astronomical catalog searches.
Heaven's Above - Provides you with all the information you need to observe: satellites, Mir and the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle, the bright flares from Iridium satellites, and a wealth of other spaceflight and astronomical information.
Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission - A pioneering space experiment dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions, parallaxes and proper motions of the stars.
Hubble: A View to the Edge of Space - Find out the secrets behind Hubble's amazing images, meet the folks who keep the telescope running and experience NASA's clean room from the inside.
Hubble Space Telescope (MAST) - The HST is an orbiting astronomical observatory operating from the near-infrared into the ultraviolet. Launched in 1990 and scheduled to operate through 2010, HST carries a wide variety of instruments producing imaging, spectrographic, astrometric, and photometric data through both pointed and parallel observing programs. Over 100 000 observations of more than 20 000 targets are available for retrieval from this archive.
Imagine the Universe - This site is intended for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe. A service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Dr. Nicholas White (Director), within the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
IRSA - The archive node for NASA's infrared and submillimeter astronomy projects and mission, providing archiving and datamining of infrared astronomy catalogs, including IRAS and 2MASS, and submillimeter.
Leonid Meteor Storms - NASA's Leonid Multi-Instrument Aircraft Campaign page. Information on Leonid meteor showers and missions.
Lund Observatory - The department of astronomy at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
Multimission Archive at STScI (MAST) - MAST supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. MAST is funded by NASA's Office of Space Science through a grant from NASA and other grants and contracts.
NASA Science - Researchers share the knowledge, excitement, and wonder of their latest scientific discoveries.
Parallax Project - Between 1910 and 1969, the Allegheny Observatory published 10 volumes of star parallax data and calculations collected and produced by researchers working at the Observatory. The published reports, known as the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, contain information that is of great value to astronomers. They contain tables of data, reports on methodology of astronomical observations, presentations of new modes of calculation of star positions, and descriptions of observational instrumentation. The tables in the volumes contain extensive documentation of the stellar magnitude, mean corrected terrestrial velocity, astronomical position, radial velocity, and brightness of many stars of importance to the current search for extra-solar planets.
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy - Devoted to airing myths and misconceptions in astronomy and related topics.
physlink.com - A comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site.
Planetary Photojournal - Publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto.
Queen's University Astronomy Research Group - Fields of interest include solar system dynamics, star formation, the interstellar medium, galaxy structure and formation, extragalactic globular cluster systems, cosmology and general relativity.
Royal Greenwich Observatory/USAF/NOAA Sunspot Record 1874-2000 - Contains a large dataset based on daily sunspot observations compiled by the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) between 1874 and 1976 and since then by the U.S. Air Force Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON).
Sedna (2003 VB12) - The coldest most distant place known in the solar system; possibly the first object in the long-hypothesized Oort cloud.
SIMBAD Astronomical Database (Strasborg, France) - SIMBAD brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography for stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects in our galaxy or external galaxies.
Sky Data in KML - You can now create KML files that display objects in the sky, such as stars, constellations, planets, the Earth's moon, and galaxies. This page explains how to create a KML file to display celestial data in Google Sky.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) - Ambitious astronomical survey will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightnesses of more than 100 million celestial objects. It will also measure the distances to more than a million galaxies and quasars. Also seeSDSS Data Release 2.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) - A being carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) comprising SOHO and CLUSTER, and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP), with Geotail (ISAS-Japan), Wind, and Polar.
Sun and Moon Data for One Day - Obtain the times of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, transits of the Sun and Moon, and the beginning and end of civil twilight, along with information on the Moon's phase.
Sun or Moon Rise-Set Table for One Year - Obtain a table of the times of sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset, or the beginning and end of twilight, for one year.
Supernova - One of the most energetic explosive events known is a supernova. These occur at the end of a star's lifetime, when its nuclear fuel is exhausted and it is no longer supported by the release of nuclear energy. If the star is particularly massive, then its core will collapse and in so doing will release a huge amount of energy. This will cause a blast wave that ejects the star's envelope into interstellar space. The result of the collapse may be, in some cases, a rapidly rotating neutron star that can be observed many years later as a radio pulsar.
Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC (2MASS) - 2MASS is uniformly scanning the entire sky in three near-infrared bands to detect and characterize point sources brighter than about 1 mJy in each band, with signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) greater than 10, using a pixel size of 2.0. This will achieve an 80,000-fold improvement in sensitivity relative to earlier surveys.
U.S. National Virtual Observatory (NVO) - A "Rosetta Stone" linking archival data sets of space- and ground-based observatories, catalogs of multi-wavelength surveys, and computational resources. NVO's astronomical and IT expertise includes data providers from space missions, ground-based telescopes, special surveys, and leading astronomical institutions throughout the country.
University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy - Responsible for research and education in astronomy and for the development and management of the Mauna Kea Science Reserve and the Haleakala High Altitude Observatory Site.
USGS Astrogeology Research Program: Map-a-Planet - Access global imagery of the planets and satellites from a variety of missions in an easy to use web interface. Customize and download your own image maps of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and other planets and moons.
Views of the Solar System - A vivid multimedia presentation of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos.
Visible Earth - NASA's searchable directory of images, visualizations and animations of Earth.
W.M. Keck Observatory - Located on the summit of Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mapped the sky at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 μm (W1, W2, W3, W4) in 2010 with an angular resolution of 6.1", 6.4", 6.5", & 12.0" in the four bands. WISE achieved 5σ point source sensitivities better than 0.08, 0.11, 1 and 6 mJy in unconfused regions on the ecliptic in the four bands. Sensitivity improves toward the ecliptic poles due to denser coverage and lower zodiacal background. NASA has released a
new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.
For a collection of WISE images released to date
visit the Multimedia Gallery.
Windows to the Universe - A richly interlinked ecosystem for learning about the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public, students, and teachers.
Worlds of David Darling - Astrobiology, astronomy and spaceflight news, encyclopedia, and links. Maintained by science writer David Darling, Ph.D.
Worldwide Telescope (WWT) - Visualization software enabling your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.
Your Sky - Interactive planetarium. You can produce maps for any time and date, viewpoint, and observing location. If you enter the orbital elements of an asteroid or comet, Your Sky will compute its current position and plot it on the map. Each map is accompanied by an ephemeris for the Sun, Moon, planets, and any tracked asteroid or comet.
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