Suggested Links:
Astronomy Links for the General Public
- Professor
Astronomy: the blog of a professional astronomer
- The American Meteor
Society: Information about meteors and meteor showers
- AstroWeb:
Comprehensive list of astronomy links
- Bad Astronomy:
Discussion of many topics where people and respected news
organizations get astronomy wrong.
- Chandra X-ray
Observatory: Public homepage for pictures from and information
about NASA's third Great Observatory. My suggestion for the name of
the observatory was named a runner-up.
- Extrasolar
Planets: Information (sometimes quite technical) about planets
outside of our solar system.
- Satellite Observing:
See a satellite go overhead? This site can help you identify it, as
well as predict sightings of virtually every satellite, such as the International Space Station.
- Sky & Telescope Online:
the website for Sky and Telescope magazine contains a wealth of
information for and about amateur astronomy.
- SOHO: The Solar and
Heliospheric Observatory is a satellite that is constantly watching
the sun. This site contains cool pictures and movies of
coronal mass ejections, huge explosions of material from the sun!
- Space Environment Center:
In the age of space-based communications, space weather has become an
important field that we are only beginning to understand. This page
describes the current space weather.
Last modified: 26 November 2008