ASTRONOMY   

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Tutorials, Experts, Problems, and Message Boards
General Information, Glossaries, Outlines
Substantive Astronomy Sites
Interactive and Visualization Sites
History and Biography
Links

Tutorials, Experts, Problems, and Message Boards

Academic Assistance Access - a homework helper where you (and others) email questions and everyone receives back by email the answers to all questions asked.  You have to join the email list, which is free and fast, and designate the area in which you are joining, which includes high school subjects, including science, and college subjects, including astronomy
http://www.tutoraid.org/faq/

Mad Scientist Network - Online expert answers to your science questions in over twenty-five areas of science, and you get to state the level at which you are studying so the response is appropriate to your level of information. Also has archives so you can check previously asked and answered questions
http://www.madsci.org/current.html

AQuA - Astronomy Question and Answer - University of Virginia graduate students answer your astronomy questions; site has an unindexed archive with answers to previously asked questions
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/AQuA//

General Information, Glossaries, Outlines

Eric’s Treasure Trove of Astronomy - online encyclopedia of astronomy with definitions and explanations 
http://www.treasure-troves.com/astro/

Substantive Astronomy Sites

Access to Astronomy Class - web site of Dalton School's college level astronomy course, listing the topics covered, image sources, web sites, and student assignments.
http://www.dalton.org/groups/astro/

Amazing Space (Hubble Space Telescope Online) -  web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/amazing-space.html

ASTRONET - frequently updated astronomical information service, which follows astronomical phenomena as well as the news on astronomy, space research, space flight, meteorology and earth sciences
http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/astroeng.html

Astronomy  (What's Up This Month?) - among the best star charts on the web, updated monthly, aimed at the beginning to intermediate student. E-mail astronomy list available 
http://www.learnwhatsup.com/astro

The Astronomy Cafe
http://www2.ari.net/home/odenwald/cafe.html

Astronomy Course for People using the Internet - easily categorized pages from a high school earth science teacher
http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/staff/jtroeger/astronomy.html

Astronomy Education Resources (AstroEd) - University of Washington's astronomy outreach to primary and secondary schools with curriculum materials, online courses, articles, newsletters, images, and many links including "Ask-an-Astronomer" 
http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/scied/astro/astroindex.html

Astronomy Magazine - selected full text articles from Astronomy magazine and links to astronomical resources on the Web. Also has downloadable programs presented in the magazine.  
http://www.kalmbach.com/astro/astronomy.html

Astronomy Now Online   
http://www.astronomynow.com/

The Aurora Page – on the Northern Lights
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/

Black Holes and Neuron Stars
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html

Comet Observation Page - NASA
http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/

The Face of Venus Home Page
http://www.eps.mcgill.ca/~bud/craters/FaceOfVenus.html

Hands On Universe - terrific site for high school students, using knowledge of science, math, and technology to investigate the universe with general information and online activities
http://hou.lbl.gov/

Life Happens - a look at the possibility of life on Mars
http://cosmopolis.com/files/mars-life.html

Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/lpi.html

Mission and Spacecraft Library - general overview of space missions for the non-professional with all kinds of spacecraft.
http://leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/home.html

NASA K-12 Internet: Live from the Hubble Space Telescope
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/livefrom/hst.html

NASA Newsroom
http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/newsroom.html

NASA Skywatch - combination of Shuttle Web and Space Station Web - complete link to shuttle activities including RealAudio real time connection to conversations between shuttle crews and NASA
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/index-m.html

The Nine Planets - introduction to planetary astronomy and space exploration for middle and high school students, with informative essays about the various objects of the solar system. Comprehensive list of links.
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Our Place in the Universe - class lecture notes from astronomy class at Otterbein College, site also contains links to all sorts of astronomy sites
http://www.otterbein.edu/dept/PHYS/is410/index.html

Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

Skyview - NASA
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html

The Space Report - based on the television program - news and views of space related issues
http://www.treknet.net/spacereport/

Welcome to the Planets - site by the California Institute of Technology and NASA
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

A Wormhole in the Cosmos - gallery of beautiful space images, understandable discussion of neutrinos, quasars, black holes and other difficult concepts and educational astronomy resources
http://www.intothecosmos.com/

Interactive and Visualization Sites

Bradford Robotic Telescope - Control an astronomical telescope. Register over the WWW and submit an observation request. When the sky is clear, the telescope photographs the object area you specified and lets you know by e-mail. You can log in and view or download a picture of what you specified.
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/index.html

Earth and Moon Viewer - pick out a place on earth and see how it looks now from the moon, the sun, a satellite.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html

History and Biography

Astronomiae Historia, History of Astronomy
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/astoria.html

Links

AstroWeb, Astronomy Resources on the Internet  
http://marvel.stsci.edu/net-resources.html

Mike Boschat’s Astronomy Page - comprehensive, alphabetized list of astronomy sites, and selected weather sites, plus some content and photographs.
http://www.atm.dal.ca/~andromed/

Science Education Gateway - for grades 6 through 12, with an easy to use chart arranged by topic to find grade appropriate information
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segway/

SEDS - Students for the Exploration and Development of Space - information on this college-student based organization and links to online resources, including links to chat rooms
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/

Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory Site - primarily a links site, now that Stars and Galaxies is a commercial product
http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/btl/