Astronomy II -- Links to Interesting Web Sites
The Course Home Page
The Instructor's Home Page
The Textbook
Web Links from the Textbook
Tours of the Solar System
Views of the Solar System
The Nine Planets
Welcome to the Planets
National Geographic's "Virtual Solar System"
NSSDC Photo Gallery
Other Planetary Systems
Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
San Francisco State University/University of California Planet Search Page
Telescopes, Instruments, and Observatories
Links To Major Astronomical Sites
Database of Astronomical Publications
Real-Time All-Sky Cameras at Observatories Around the World
Complete List of NASA Missions
The VLA (lots of good pictures)
Light, Atoms, and Spectroscopy
Awesome Applet to demonstrate interference and diffraction
Spectrum Explorer tool to study Blackbody Radiation
Project Lite - other interesting tools to study light
The Sun
SOHO
Latest Solar Images (from SOHO)
The National Solar Observatory
The High Altitude Observatory
Measuring the Stars
The HIPPARCOS Mission
"Star of the Week"
Stellar Evolution
Galaxies and Cosmology
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
The Large Magellanic Cloud
Searching for LIFE in the Universe
NASA Astronomy Education
NASA's Education Program
Amazing Space Web-Based Activities
Imagine the Universe
Astronomy Publications and Textbooks
ASTRONOMY Magazine
SKY AND TELESCOPE Magazine
Astronomy Texts Published by WH Freeman
Astronomy Texts Published by Brooks/Cole
Astronomy Notes
Miscellaneous Stuff
The Messier Objects (1)
The Messier Objects (2) >
Spot an Iridium Flare!
Spotting the International Space Station from Charleston
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Digital Images of the Sky (really useful)
Sunrise/Sunset computation
US Naval Observatory: Time Service Dept.
Rise and Set Times, Eclipses, All Sorts of Neat Stuff from USNO
Complete List of NASA Missions
NASA Today (launches and news)
NASA's Human Spaceflight News
The Latest Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope
Astro Web: (Search Engine for Professional Astronomers)
Space Weather (including LEONIDS reports)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO)
last modified 9 January 2012 by
James E. Neff
send suggestions for new links or reports of dead links to
neffj@cofc.edu