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From UT's McDonald Observatory
StarDate Online

What's Up in the Sky Tonight
What's up in the sky tonight?
Whole Sky Chart
Skywatch
Heavens Above
Star of the Week

Some Stellar Evolution Pages
U. Oregon Red Giants
UCSD Stellar Evolution

Satellites & Observatories
Spaceweather.com
NOAO News
The Chandra Observatory Center
The Supernova Acceleration Probe
The Hubble Space Telescope

Black Holes
Black Holes and Neutron Stars
UCLA Galactic Center Group
The Black Hole in the Galactic Center
Hubblesite: Black Holes

Intermediate Mass Black Holes
The Hunt for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Quasar Black Holes
Hubble - M87's Jet
Origin of M87 Jet Near a Black Hole
Animation - Tidal Disruption
Black Hole Survey Sheds Light on Galaxy Formation

Gamma Ray Bursts
"Rosetta Stone" Found to Decode GRB Mystery
Movie of short, hard, gamma-ray burst model

Supernovae
Birth of a Supernova - Nova Online (PBS)

String Theory
The Elegant Universe - Nova Online (PBS)
The Official String Theory Website
The Universe on a String [pdf]

Astronomy Pictures
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Hubble Space Telescope Pictures
Image of Messier Objects
Image from Ango-Australian Telescope
The Web Nebulae
SkyLinks: Astronomy Related Web Sites
3C58 - SN1181
Molecular Expressions: Powers of Ten

Astronomy "Movies"
Changes in the Crab Nebula
Supernova Shock Wave/Ring Interaction
Algol Mass Transfer System
Accretion Flow
Hamilton BH/Worm Hole
The Dynamics of Mass-Transferring Binary Star Systems

Other Astronomy Links
Space.com
Starstuff
The Whole Earth Telescope
Arab Contributions to Mathematics
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi Biography
Original 4D-Derived Forms
4D-Derived Forms as Objects
4D-Derived Forms as Environments
Jodrell Bank Obs.: Pulsar Research
Metaplanets
ThinkQuest
Hawking Radiation

Art
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Marcel Duchamp
4D Model: Tesseract
Novak
Centrifuge: Images

Cosmology
Labs for a Lambda-Dominated Universe