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Astronomy Picture of the Day

AstroNet
A listing of Astronomy Clubs and destinations worldwide

Astromart
The Global Astronomy Marketplace. If your in the market to buy or sell telescopes, cameras or other equipment, this is the site to post free ads and get results!

AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
Astronomical Internet Resources contains pointers to potentially relevant resources available via Internet

Asteroids and Comets

The Aurora Borealis Page
Features lots of information on the Northern Lights phenomena, and serves as a good jumping-off point for related resources. You can download beautiful images, learn what is believed to cause the lights, get forecasts for the next outbreak, and even find out about the sounds that the lights sometimes make.

Astronomy Basics: Tips On Observing the Universe

The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope

Center for Mars Exploration
Indepth view of Mars. Superb background, photo views, Animations, Statistics and evidence of primitive life on Early Mars.

Earthshots
Earthshots is a collection of satellite images which show how our environment has changed over the last 20 years. The effects of droughts, fires, deforestation, urbanization, irrigation, desertification, and other natural and anthropogenic events can be detected, measured, and analyzed using satellite data.

FAQ sci.astro
sci.astro is a newsgroup devoted to the discussion of all aspects of astronomy. As such its content ranges from the Earth to the farthest reaches of the Universe. This document answers all of your most frequently asked questions about astronomy.

Galaxy Page
A sizzling hot site crossing new frontiers in online astronomy. It's a fun and easily navigable guide to the solar system, planetary exploration, aerospace, real-time weather and more. The section Visions of the Future is a must-see for a futuristic look at space colonies, starships, and other conceptions once known only to science fiction

Whole Truth About Ice on the Moon
The Transcript from original radio broadcast with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

International Meteor Organization (IMO)
The collection of meteor observations by several methods from all around the world ensures the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and interplanetary dust.

Hubble Site
Out of the ordinary
...out of this world.
Chances are you haven't seen what NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope sees. Hubble sees the raw beauty of the universe from above Earth's atmosphere and sends back a portrait of the universe in exquisite detail. Here's your chance to leave the ground for a while... and see what Hubble sees.

Latest Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
Contains both text and images of the latest discoveries made by the HST.

MEL
A nice selection of Astronomy sites in the Michigan Electronic Library Collection.

The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour
The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.

Project Galileo
Check out their extensive collection of just-released images and data from Jupiter, read a brief introduction to the mission, and join the excitement as we take you through Galileo's exploration of our solar system's largest planet.

SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Serving the World Wide Web with information about scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Potentially, there are billions of locations outside our solar system that may contain life."

Sky & Telescope Magazine
This Essential Magazine of Astronomy is updated weekly.

Solar System Live
Solar System Live generates a "live," minute-to-minute GIF image of the planets as they would appear if you were floating a few million miles out in space. Users can select a variety of options, including time and date (see the position of the planets when you were born!), viewpoint, and observing location.

Space Images Archive
Searchable index to over 13,000 images)

Stars Family
The Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources is a growing collection of directories, dictionaries, databases and related products on astronomy, space sciences, as well as related fields, organizations and people.

Stephen Hawking's Universe
Stephen Hawking a theoretical physicist, has devoted his life to "probing the space-time described by general relativity and the singularities where it breaks down." For more on this (anti) matter, visit the PBS site dedicated to the brilliant man and his work. You can read about the long unsolved mysteries (such as "Is Time Travel Possible?"), learn about history's cosmological superstars (Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Einstein, among others), and have all of the truly strange stuff explained.

Tonight's Sky
Look up to see the wonders of the universe -- and know what we're seeing! Tonight's Sky will get you started along that path to astronomical enlightenment -- today.

The Virtual Sun
The Sun: A multimedia tour

The Web Nebulae
If you look up at the night sky with your naked eye all you see is a black void with a few points of white light. But with a camera and a telescope an entirely different view unfolds in brilliant color and amazing detail. These pages will introduce a few of these spectacular objects.

World of Astronomy
ASTRONOMY Magazine is the world's largest English-language magazine for astronomy hobbyists. ASTRONOMY on the Web presents the contents of the current issue of ASTRONOMY magazine, previews the next issue, and highlights current and future sky events.

Newsgroups for Astronomy

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