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Astronomy

General Astronomy Sites | Telescopes | Our Solar System | The Sun | The Nature Of Stars
Stellar Birth | Stellar Evolution | Stellar Death | Our Galaxy (The Milky Way)  | Galaxies
Quasars, Blazars, and Active Galactic Nuclei | Cosmology | Extrasolar Planets | Astrobiology
Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence | UFO's and Aliens

General Astronomy Sites

• The Cosmic Perspective (course textbook companion Web site)
• Steven T. Myers National Radio Astronomy Observatory Home Page
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• NASA
• AstroWeb
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Royal Greenwich Observatory Leaflets
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Goddard Space Flight Centre
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
• Astronomy Gateway

Telescopes

• Hubble Space Telescope Images

Our Solar System

• The Nine Planets
• Welcome to the Planets
• Planetary Science Discoveries
• Solar System Simulator
• Views of the solar system

The Sun

• Virtual Sun
• Solar Data Analysis Centre
• International Solar-Terrestrial Physics

The Nature of Stars

• Nearby Stars in Space

Stellar Birth

• Star Forming Regions (AAO)

Stellar Evolution

• The Electronic Universe
• Variable Stars

Stellar Death

• Pulsar Group
• Princeton Pulsar Group
• Neutron Stars
• Pulsars (JBRO)
• Beyond the Event Horizon (Black Holes)
• Black Holes FAQ
• Virtual Trips to Holes and Neutron Stars
• Falling into a Black Hole
• Black Holes at Syracuse University
• Testing General Relativity

Our Galaxy : The Milky Way

• Perth Observatory Home
• Cambridge University Intro.
• Maps of the Milky Way

Galaxies

• Anglo-Australian Observatory Images
• Las Campanas Redshift Survey
• Galaxy Collisions
• Science Backgrounder : An Intro. to Galaxies
• Galaxies - A Popular Overview
• Hands-On Universe
• Galaxy Clusters

Quasars, Blazars, and Active Galactic Nuclei

• Quasars FAQ
• Seyfert Galaxies
• Gamma Ray Bursters

Cosmology

• Cosmology Tutorial (UCLA)
• NASA Cosmology Tutorial
• COBE Images
• Big Bang (Cambridge U.)
• Cosmos in a Computer
• Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
• CMBR (FAQ)
• Science Article on Inflation

Extrasolar Planets

• Exoplanets : Planets around Other Stars
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
• Other Worlds, Distant Suns
• San Francisco State University Planet Search Project

Astrobiology

• The Astrobiology Web
• NASA's Astrobiology

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

• SETI Institute
• Harvard SETI Project
• SERENDIP (UC Berkeley)
• Big Ear Radio Observatory

UFO's and Aliens

• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal