Useful Links
Official/Semi-Official Workshop Webpages
- Official workshop homepage at the McDonald Observatory
- McDonald Observatory's Homepage
- Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin
- Webpages from the 2007 workshop
Some related links
- 2009 International Year of Astronomy -- 2009 is the UN-sponsored International Year of Astronomy, with worldwide activities and opportunities.
- Exoplanet Encyclopedia -- Current information on planets around other stars.
- Exoplanets.org -- more extrasolar planets
- Sloan Map of the Universe -- a multi-page map of the Universe made from the Sloan Digital Sky survey. Site includes instructions on how to print it out.
Links suggested by participants
- Cosmic Voyage Morgan Freeman narrates an IMAX film, an updated version of the venerable Powers of Ten
- Chandra X-Ray Observatory Educational Materials
- Private Universe
- Jupiter's Moons
- Stardate.org -- Resources for teaching
- Rainbow Symphony -- Gratings for spectra
- Daily Solar Images
- Space Weather
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Sirius: Brightest Diamond in the Night Sky
Social Networking
- MySpace -- Some people you might find interesting:
- Professor Astronomy (one of your facilitators)
- 2009 Year of Astronomy
- Twitter -- a "micro-blogging" site where you and your friends can leave short personal updates, or "tweets"
- astronomy2009 -- 2009 International Year of Astronomy updates
- MarsPhoenix -- Tweets direct from Mars
- Facebook Groups:
