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Engineering Science & Physics Department
Astronomy Web Links
Astrophysics
General Astrophysics
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Relativity - (General & Special)
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Electromagnetic Spectrum & Light
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Radio Astronomy
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Ancient Astronomy History
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Modern Astronomy History
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Astronomers
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Life In the Universe
Astrobiology
Extrasolar Planets
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Observatories
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Observing Techniques & Information
Planetaria & Astronomy Museums
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The Sun
Mercury
Venus
Earth
The Moon
Mars
Jupiter
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Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Asteroids, Comets & Meteors
- The Minor Planet Center - MPC.
- Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards by Dr David Morrison.
- Spaceguard Foundation
- Asteroid news page
- Mathilde Flyby Mission
- Bill Bottke's Asteroid Research Page.
- International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry
- Alt Impact Hazard: 1997 XF11
- Deep Impact
- Leonid '98 Meteor Outburst Page
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
- Home of the NEAR Mission
- Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Asteroids
- The Spaceguard Foundation home page
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
- Asteroid and Comet Info (Asteroid and Comet database for perilous times).
- Asteroid & Comet Threat and News Victor Noto's "BIGROCK" Web site (an excellent amateur site!).
- Deep Space 1 Mission - JPL.
- Bill Bottke's Asteroid Research Page.
- Bad Astronomy - Astronomer Phil Plait's Web Site.
- Bill Arnett's Asteroid Page.
- Comet Observations (Comet News, Ephemerides, and Information).
- Comet Information.
- Comets, Culture, & Currency - direct social and physical impact of comet debris during the holocene.
- CTH 3D Comet Impact Simulations.
- Center of Advanced Space Studies
- Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page.
- Lowell Observatory - Asteroid Observing Services
- European Asteroid Research Node A group of independant European organizations involved in Asteroid Research.
- PDSSBN: Small Solar System Bodies.
- Asteroid Page by SEDS
- Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page (NEAT).
- Rosetta Mission
- Asteroid and Comet Defence (U.S. Navy).
- Near-Earth Asteroid Information from the MPECs.
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
- Stardust Mission
- JPL's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Page (NEAR).
- The NEAR Spacecraft (SEDS).
- Earth-Crossing Asteroids - Images and animations of Earth-crossing asteroids.
- Spacewatch Dr Tom Gehrels.
- Ondrejov NEO Photometric Program - (Peter Pravec).
- Clark Chapman's Papers on the Impact Hazard from Near-Earth Asteroids.
- JPL SSV: Earth-Approaching Asteroids Overview on - Castalia, Toutatis, and Geographos.
- Near-Earth Asteroid Prospector Mission (NEAP): SpaceDev Corporation
- Barringer Meteor Crater - meteors and impacts.
- Comets and Meteor Showers (Gary W. Kronk).
- 1908 Siberia Explosion - reconstructing the 1908 Tunguska explosion from eyewitness accounts.
- Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) - program which recovers meteorite specimens from the Antarctic icesheet.
- Atmospheric Entry of Meteors - main physical processes in the atmospheric entry of large meteors. Some complete research papers on the topic are included and related links.
- Cosmic Collisions - what would happen to us if a large asteroid smashed into the Earth? From the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
- Doomsday, asteroids & comets - the doomsday scenario.
- Impact Site - meteorite photographs.
- Meteorite Central
- International Meteor Organization (IMO).
- Meteors - Norwegian Astronomical Society
- Real Threat of Asteroids, The - sometime with in the next century there is a chance of getting hit by an asteroid.
- Scientific American: Bang and Splat - a supercomputer anticipates the catastrophic impact of a giant comet.
- Scientific American: Double Whammy - an asteroid striking land would be catastrophic, but the damage might be a lot worse if it plunged into the sea.
- Small Comets - A series of spectacular images produced by cameras on NASA's Polar spacecraft suggest that Earth is being pelted by thousands of small comets each day.
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SPACE EXPLORATION
Rocketry & Propulsion
General Space Exploration
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Space Colonization
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Interstellar Travel
STARS and GALAXIES
- Constellations and their Stars, The - statistics, history, mythology for all 88 constellations and the named stars in them; also contains info on Messier objects; some star charts included.
- Celestial Atlas (1826) - by Franz Niklaus König.
- StarMap - create maps of the heavens customized for your date, time, and location.
- Dome of the Sky - an online planetarium showing the positions of stars and constellations at different dates through the year.
- Out of This World - exhibition of rare historical celestial atlases.
- ScienceNet - Starmaps
- Aboriginal (Native American Indian) Astronomy - Lakota constellations ceremonially mapped to Black Hills; 4,000-year-old stone Medicine Wheels first observatories. Starmaps, stargazing aids, teaching resources.
- Japanese Star Charts and Moon Stations
- Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
- Journey through the Galaxy
- Milky Way Galaxy, The
- Milky Way System
- Milky Way, The
- Multiwavelength Milky Way
- Our Own Galaxy: The Milky Way
- Shape of the Milky Way
- Dwarf Galaxy Research
- Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
- OH Megamasers
- Scientific American: Constructing the Cosmos
- Black Holes and Neutron Stars - non-technical resource about black holes and neutron stars. Includes a Q&A page.
- Eclipsing Binary Stars
- Magnetars - news from NASA about super-magnetic neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts.
- Magnetars and SGRS - information on these and very strong magnetic fields.
- NASA Observatorium: Stellar Evolution and Death - a description of how, in the course of millions to billions of years, stars evolve and eventually die.
- Star Formation, Binary Stars and Nemesis - stellar jetting from accretion disk star formation is examined as a phase of creating a highly eccentric polar orbiting body.
- Vincent's Space Oddities Page - learn about quasars, pulsars, supernovae, and black holes.
- Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page
- Wormhole in the Cosmos, A - pictures and more on black holes, supernovae, moons, and more.
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