Fun Astro-links

Contents:

• Starting Points to Explore
• NASA's Great Observatories
• Human Space Exploration
• Probes to the Solar System
• Exoplanets
• General Astronomy News

• Berkeley Science Education Gateway.
• The Backyard Astronomer

• Hubble Space Telescope
  • Space Telescope Science Institute - They operate the HST
  • Hubblesite - produced by the Office of Public Outreach at STSI
  • HST Public Pictures
  • Hubblesite News Release Archive with many images
• Compton Gamma Ray Obseratory

  Home Page

• Chandra X-Ray Observatory (AXAF)

  Home Page

  Images

  Educational Materials

• Spitzer Space Telescope

  Home Page

  Education and Outreach

• The Mission and Spacecraft Library (formerly Mike's Spacecraft Library) gives a good over-all information source on rockets, probes, missions, and history (without the techno-babble).
• The World Space Flight page provides a great wealth of information on crewed missions.

Current Space Exploration

• The NASA Human Spaceflight page is the place to start (and it provides real-time images from the shuttle!)
• The Kennedy Space Center maintains a very extensive site on the space shuttle with mission histories and astronaut biographies.

Early Space Exploration

The Kennedy Space Center history page includes sites on

Mercury,

Gemini,

Apollo,

Skylab,

and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Mir

• Mark Curtiss's Mir page
• The NASA Shuttle-Mir Page provides a good overview.
• Mark Wade's Mir Page includes an excellent history of Mir missions (DEAD LINK).
• Also try the The Russian Aerospace Guide.

The International Space Station is easy to see from the ground at dawn and dusk. To learn when and how, visit NASA's J-pass site.

Heavens Above will show you how to see many satellites.

NASA maintains a collection of Astronaut Biographies.

• The Cassini mission to Saturn
• NASA's Mars Exploration Program
• The Galileo mission to Jupiter (now just thumbnail images, but the full images can be found on other sites)

• Planetary Photojournal at JPL, looks to be the most complete compilation.
• Another good site is maintained by the National Space Science Data Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Views of the Solar System by Calvin J. Hamilton, used to be great site, but now it seems too commercial.

The best overall site to start with is the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia.

To get the story straight from the discoverer of many of the new exoplanets, visit the California and Carnegie Planet Search (formerly Geoff Marcy's Extra-solar Planet Page).

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• SpaceWeather.com
• The Universe Today - News Briefs
• Sky & Telescope
• Space Flight Gossip - The Onion meets Lost in Space!

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Last modified 23 April, 2009. © Gregory C. Sloan.