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Astronomical Resources on the Web

Internet Starting Points

Astronomical Internet Resources from STScI, AURA, Goddard

The Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources
StarWorlds (organizations, institutions, associations, companies, etc.)
StarHeads (more than 5000 personal WWW pages of individuals)
StarBits (abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, etc.)

Science:Astronomy in the Yahoo database.
Astroplace
An educational resource, including a good list of astronomers' web pages.
Griffith Observatory's Web Star Awards
The Gaileo Project
He lived 400 years ago, but he still has a very extensive web site.
Patrick Shopbell's Astronomy Links
A subject-sorted guide to astronomical information available over the Internet.
The Universe Today
A daily digest of space exploration news, with links to articles from various media on the net. Sometimes the reporters get the story first, but often you can read the original press releases on the sci.space.news newsgroup.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
This joint project of Nature and the Institute of Physics requires a subscription to see the full text of most articles, but it has one free one per week and access to brief entries and "Breaking News".

Organizations

AAS (American Astronomical Society) [ApJ] [ApJ Sup.] [ApJ Let.] [AJ]
Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA)
Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)
High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD)
Historical Astronomy Division (HAD)
Solar Physics Division (SPD)

ASP (Astronomical Society of the Pacific)

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
[Image of the Day] [Press Releases]

Thematic structure:
The Earth
Heliophysics [The Sun-Earth Connection]
Planets [Exploration of the Solar System ] [Exoplanets]
Astrophysics

Centers:
Ames Research Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Goddard Space Flight Center [HEASARC] [NSSDC] [NASA Forms Evolution Process]

National Research Council
puts out decadal reports setting the priorities of the US astronomical community:
Space Science in the Twenty-first Century: Imperatives for the Decades 1995-2015
Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium (2000-2010),
COMPLEX
The Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration of the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council evaluates US planetary studies. The full text of COMPLEX reports are online:
Scientific Assessment of NASA's Solar System Exploration Roadmap,
Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
The Exploration of Near-Earth Objects
A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa

Japan in Space

Observatories

Observatory Schedules
Links to as many observatory schedules as I could find. Many of them are from the AstroWeb observatory schedule page, but I tracked down a few myself and included SAO's schedules which are restricted to Center for Astrophysics staff only.
Arecibo Observatory (National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center)
Cambridge University (Institute of Astronomy and Royal Greenwich Observatory)
CADC (Canadian Astronomy Data Centre)
Las Campanas and Magellan (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington)
CTIO (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory)
DAO (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory)
DRAO (Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory)
ESIS (European Space Information System)
ESO (European Southern Observatory)
VLT (The Very Large Telescope Project)
Gemini (The Gemini 8m Telescopes Project)
STScI (Space Telescope Science Institute)
KPNO (Kitt Peak National Observatory)
Magellan Telescopes (Two 6.5 Meter Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory)
MSO&SSO (Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories)
Mount Wilson Observatory
UT-Austin (University of Texas Department of Astronomy & McDonald Observatory)
NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatories) [Newsletter]
NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
NSO (National Solar Observatory - Sacramento Peak)
SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
STEIS (Space Telescope Electronic Information System)
HST Astrometry Science Team
Subaru (National Observatory of Japan, on Mauna Kea)
UKIRT (United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii)
U.Mass Amherst (University of Massachusetts Astronomy Department)
Virtual Observatory Conference (Caltech, June 2000)
Wallace Astrophysical Observatory (MIT)
Virtual Observatory Tours

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

NASA Exoplanet Archive
The NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) runs this NASA-funded service that provides exoplanet and stellar host properties and Kepler candidate properties presented in interactive tables, including centroiding information from the Kepler pipeline.
UC Berkeley SETI Program, University of California Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence
Breakthrough Listen is taking data with the Green Bank Telescope (the world's largest steerable radio telescope), the Parkes radio telescope in Australia, and the Automated Planet Finder (a robotic optical telescope equipped with cutting edge spectrograph technology).
SERENDIP (Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations) is an ongoing scientific research effort aimed at detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. This site describes the SERENDIP project and discusses the status of the search.
SETI@home is a grand experiment to harness the spare power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by spreading around the analysis of data from Arecibo.
SETI League
International grass-roots organization dedicated to privatizing the electromagnetic Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.
Motto: "SETI is a science, not simply a screensaver!"
International Academy of Astronautics SETI Permanent Study Group
Originators of the Rio Scale, designed to quantify the impact of any announcement regarding evidence of extraterrestrial inteligence.
SETI Institute
Information about scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
The Astrobiology Web
A good source for current astrobiology news

History

Inventing the Solar System
Ellen Brundige wrote this concise summary of the evolution of Greek thought about the universe.

Telescope Data Center

Last updated 3 August 2018 by
Jessica Mink