Focus on The Solar System

OVERVIEW       

• Views of the Solar System
• Galileo Home Page (JPL)
• Cassini Home Page 
• Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
• NASA Planetary Science Hom

The Sun                 

• The Virtual Sun
• NASA Solar Data Analysis Center
• SOHO
• Current Solar Images
• Solar Radio Flux
• Current Solar Images (A)
• Today's Space Weather

Mercury      

• NASA Planetary Mercury Page
• NASA Mission to Mercury MESSENGER

Venus                     

• Magellan Mission to Venus (JPL)
• Pioneer Venus Project Information
• Venus - Magellan Image Data
• NASA Planetary Venus Page

Earth       

• The United States Geological Survey
• Earth Viewer: Constructs current views from satellites
• The National Geophysical Data Center
• The Endangered Species Home Page
• NOAA's Satellites 
• Astronaut Earth photography database
• NOAA NWS recent Weather Satellite Images of US
• The Cascades Volcano Observatory
• Oceanography WWW Data Servers
• Ozone Watch
• US EPA (OZONE,ACID RAIN, CLIMATE CHANGE) 
• NASA Planetary Earth Page

The Moon       

• The Inconstant Moon
• Geology and History of the Lunar surface 
• Lunar Exploration
• Earth and Moon Viewer
• The Moon's origin
• NASA Planetary moon Page

Mars    

• Human mission to Mars
• What's The Weather Like On Mars Today?
• Pathfinder
• Spirit
• Opportunity
• Viking
•  Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
• NASA Planetary Mars Page

Jupiter       

• Project Galileo Homepage
• Galileo Mission To Jupiter
• Moons of Jupiter 
• NASA Planetary Jupiter Page

 Saturn     

• Cassini Mission to Saturn 
• Moons of Saturn
• NASA Planetary Saturn Page

Uranus          

• Uranus in depth
• NASA Planetary Uranus Page 

 Neptune   

• NASA overview  Neptune Page
• NASA in depth Neptune

Minor Planet Pluto         

• The Pluto and Kuiper Belt
• New Horizon mission
• NASA Planetary Pluto Page

Asteroids, Comets & Meteors      

• Nasa Planetary Asteroid Page
• NASA Comets and target mission
• Nature of Comets
• Danger of Asteroids and Comets

               Rocketry & Propulsion

• Basics of Space Flight  
• History of Space Flight
• Pre-Astronauts, Rocket Pioneers & NASA Administrators
• NASA Rocket Science for educators
• Sergei Pavlovich Korolev Soviet Rocket program
• Werner von Braun

General Space Exploration

• Americans Respond: Project Mercury
• Independent Space Programs
• Apollo 11
• Apollo 13 Accident
• Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
• BeppoSax Mission
• Chronology of Lunar & Planetary Exploration
• Chronology of Solar System Discovery
• Cosmic Ray, Gamma Ray & Neutrino Experiments
• Deep Space 1
• Educator's Guide from the  Johnson Space Center
• Educator's Guide to Robotic Spacecraft
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• ESA Space Science Missions
• European Space Agency
• Gravity Probe B testing Einstein
• High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
• High Energy Transient Explorer
• History of Space Exploration
• Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE)
• Kennedy Space Center
• Military Space Programs
• NASA Balloon Program Office 
• NASA Earth Science & Solar System Exploration Division
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• NASA Skywatch
• NASA Space Science Missions
• NASA  ALL MISSIONS LINK
• NASA CURRENT MISSIONS
• NASA-ESA  Ulysses joint mission
• Next Generation: Gemini & Voskhod
• Projects to Employ Resources of the Moon and Asteroids Near Earth in the Near Term (PERMANENT)
• Astronaut requirements 
• Pioneer Missions
• Planetary Missions Summary-NASA index
• Planetary Science Spacecraft
• Remote Sensing
• Russian Space Programs
• Real Time Satellite Tracking
• Shuttle Radar Topography mission
• Spacecraft Models
• Spaceflight  History
• Space Industrial Arts
• Space Interferometry Mission
• Space Shuttle
• Space Shuttle Press Kit
• Ulysses JPL
• Voyager 1 & 2
• Voyager: The Grandest Tour
• X-33 History
• Yohkoh Japaneses-Nasa mission & the Sun

• Human Adaptation to spaceflight
• Human Exploration & Development of Space NASA
• Human Spaceflight: The Soviets
• International Space Station Boeing
• International Space Station News info NASA
• International Space Treaties
• NASA Human Space Flight
• NOVA: Terror in Space
• Space Colonization Basics  NASA
• Space Environments & Effects Program NASA
• International Space Law UN office of Outer Space Affairs
• Space Organizations ( international links to)
• Space Policy online- NEWS INFO Civil,military and commercial space programs
• Stationed in the Stars NOVA program
• Where is the International Space Station
• Proposed Independent Space Force

Interstellar Travel  

• Humanities Future in Space 
• Interstellar Space Rocket Travel
• Physics of Interstellar Travel
• NASA Voyager interstellar mission
• Proposed Methods of Interstellar Travel
• Warp Drive When?

Astrobiology

• Amateur SETI: Project BAMBI
• Astrobiology at NASA
• Astrobiology Institute
• Columbus Optical SETI Observatory
• Drake Equation
• What is the Drake Equation?
• Life Beyond Earth
• Exobiology
• NOVA: Hunt for Alien Worlds
• Planetary Society's Search
• Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence 
• SERENDIP Project
• SETI: Drake Equation
• SETI Institute
• SETI League 

  Extrasolar Planets    

• KEPLER  A SEARCH FOR HABITABLE PLANETS-NASA MISSION
• Are We Unique?
• Discovery of Extrasolar Planets
• Discovery of 3 Planets around Upsilon Andromedae
• Discovery of 51 Peg
• Extrasolar Planets
• Newly discivered Planets

Modern Astronomy History   

• Astronomy: A Brief History
• Development of Modern Astrophysics
• Fall of the Leaning Tower (see galileo)
• History of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• History of Astronomy: Museums, Memorials, Historical Places, & Exhibits
• History of  Space Science and Astronomy
• History of the Discovery of Deep Sky Objects
• History of the Messier Catalog
• History of the Hubble Space Telescope
• Museo della Specola Bologna Observatory History
• NASA Astronaut Biographies
• NASA History Office
• Physics of Aristotle Versus Physics of Galileo
• Shapley-Curtis Debate in 1920 on the Scale of the Universe
• Yale History of  Science
• Einstein Archive Online 

Ancient Astronomy History 

• Ancient Astronomy (Wikipedia)
• Ancient Egyptian Mythology
• Annotated Timeline ( a History of Scientific discovery by date)
• Àryabhatíya of Àryabhata an ancient work on astronomy from India
• Astronomy in Babylon
• Astronomy & Islam
• Astronomy in Ancient Japan
• Aztec Creation Story
• Babylonian Planetary Theory & the Heliocentric Concept
• Greek Accomplishments
• How the Shaman Stole the Moon
• Hypatia of Alexandria (famous ancient woman astronomer)
• Ancient Japanese Astronomy
• Japanese Star Charts and Moon Stations
• Jewish Astronomy
• Greek Astronomy
• History of Astronomy in Ancient India
• How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars
• Maya Calendar
• Mayan Astronomy
• Meteors & the Native Americans
• North American Indian ancient astronomy
• Out of This World- exhibition of rare historical celestial atlases.
• Star of Bethlehem (an astronomical perspective)
• Celestial Atlas (1826) - by Franz Niklaus König.

Archaeoastronomy  Resources

• Archaeoastronomy
• Archaeoastronomy at Mounds State Park
• What is Archaeoastronommy?
• Center for Archaeoastronomy
• Central Texas Sun Dagger
• Chaco Canyon ancient observaotgory
• Clive Ruggle's Archaeoastronomy Images
• Great Pyramid of Gizza and Orion Correlation Theory
• History of Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy & Ethnoastronomy
• Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge
• Stonehenge again
• Stonehenge: Eclipse Computer?
• Stonehenge & the Rings of Rock
• Stonehenge, Wiltshire

Some Astronomers 

• List of women in Astronomy with links to their details
• Albert Einstein: Image & Impact
• Albert Einstein Online
• Caroline Herschel
• Catalog of the Scientific Community in the 16th & 17th Centuries
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Christopher Clavius
• Eratosthenes
• Eugene M. Shoemaker: A Tribute
• Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel
• Galileo Galilei
• Galileo Project
• Galileo: The Telescope & the Laws of Dynamics
• Giordano Bruno
• Henry Norris Russell
• Hipparchus
• Isaac Newton
• Isaac Newton Resources
• Johannes Kepler
• Johannes Kepler
• Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion
• Newton's Cosmological Queries
• Nicolas Copernicus
• Observations of Tycho Brahe
• Paolo Antonio Foscarini
• Ptolemy
• Sir Isaac Newton & the Unification of Physics & Astronomy
• Stephen Hawking Pages
• Tycho Brahe
• Tycho Brahe

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STARS (overview of some astrophysics)      

• Binary stars used to determine stellar masses
• Eclipsing Binary Stars
• NASA gamma ray bursts 
• Magnetars(a kind of neurtron star)
• OH Megamasers( from strars and galaxies)
• Stellar Evolution the full picture - Extensive links to all phases of star formation to  stellar death.
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page
• Wormholes(Einstein-Rosen bridge)

 GALAXIES

• Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
• Our Eath's Journey through the Galaxy
• Our Milky Way Galaxy
• Milky Way, The   NASA
• Multiwavelength Milky Way NASA
• All Types of  Galaxies
•  NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

General Astrophysics

• Astrophysics-Wikipedia
• Astrophysics-NASA
• Fundamental Forces of nature-Multiwavelength Astronomy
• Gravitational Perturbations & the Prediction of New Planets
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Astrophysics News-Science Daily
• Astrophysics and Astronomy-Columbia University
• Astrophysics Department at the Rose Center-AMNH
• NSSDC-NASA Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation
• Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
• Gravity & Circular Orbits
• Kepler's ellipitcal orbits derived from Newton's law of Gravity -Orbits II
• Orbital Motion-Wikepedia
• Orbits in 2D
• Orbits in 3D
• Titius-Bode Law-Wikepedia

Relativity - (Special & General)

• Albert Einstein & the Intro to the Theories of Relativity
• Albert Einstein-Special and General Relativity-Wikepedia
• Principle of Equivalence Genral Relativity
• Einstein Archive Online
• Can Special Relativity Handle Accelerations?
• Dilation of Time -Wikepedia
• Dummies Guide to Special Relativity
• Experimental Basis of Special Relativity
• Introduction to General Relativity -Wikepedia
• General Relativity Wikipedia
• Lectures on General Relativity & Cosmology byProf. T. Padmanabhan, IUCAA
• General Relativity Tutorial Long Course TECHNICAL
• General Relativity Tutorial Short Course TECHNICAL
• Geometry of Spacetime Wikepedia
• The Fourth Dimension Wikepedia
• Introduction to Differential Geometry & General Relativity Technical
• Light Cone: Einstein- Minlowski spacetime
• Lorentz Contraction Special Relativity
• Michelson-Morley Experiment Wikepedia
• Orbits in Strongly Curved Spacetime
• Plausibility of Time Travel
• Postulates of Special Relativity
• Relativity & the Separation Formula
• Relativity Tutorial
• Spacetime Mediation of Quantum Interactions
• Quantum Mechanixs and Spacetime?
• Special Relativity
• Special Relativity FAQ
• Special Relativity Questions
• Special Relativity: What Time Is It?
• Time Dilation-Wikepedia
• Twin Paradox

Electromagnetic Spectrum & Light  

• Aberration of Light classical and relatavistic
• Visible Spectra
• Atomic Hydrogen Spectra: Tools for Probing Galaxies workshop for teachers
• Blackbody Radiation Wikepedia
• Doppler Effect for sound
• Doppler effect for light and other areaso
• Relatavistic doppler effect
• Electromagnetic Spectrum
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Emission & Absorption by Atoms
• Infrared Astronomy
• NASA Gamma Ray Astronomy
• NASA Gamma Ray Detectors
• Interaction of Radiation and Matter
• Inverse Square Law
• Light Curves, Spectra, & Images
• Multiwavelength Astronomy
• Nature of Light
• Photon Nature of Light
• light: wave -particle Duality
• Spectra & What Scientists Can Learn from Them NASA
• Spectral Analysis
• Ultraviolet
• X-Ray Astronomy
• X-ray Detectors
• X-ray Generation
• Why the Sky is Blue

Radio Astronomy  

• Radio Astronomy-wikepedia
• Introduction to Radio Astronomy
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
• Arecibo Observatory
• Jodrell Bank
• NRAO Very Large Array (VLA)
• List of Radio telescopes of the world
• Smart Antenna Systems
• China building the largest Radio Telescope
• Submillimeter Telescope General Information
• Atlas of Double Radiosource Associated with Galactic Nucleus (DRAGN)
• Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST)
• Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies
• Robert Byrd Greenbank Telescope world's largest Radio telescope
• Large Millimeter Telescope
• Princeton Pulsar Group software for amateur radio science
• Project Serendip (radio search for alien civilizations?)
• SETI (Radio search for aliens civilizations?)
• Pulsars

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Impacts with Asteroids and Comets (related to research at this observatory)  

• NASA Planetary Comet Page
• NASA Planetary Asteroid Page
• NASA Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard home
• Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards Hisotricao perspective by Dr David Morrison.
• The IAU Minor Planet Center at Harvard (Main place for asteroid hunters) - MPC.
• The Spaceguard Foundation home page
• NEODyS-NEO ASTEROID INFORMATION
• Impact Hazard Scare! 1997 XF11
• Lowell Observatory - Asteroid Observing Services
• NASA Small Solar System Bodies.
• Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page (NEAT).
• Spacewatch Dr Tom Gehrels.
• NASA Leonid Meteor Storms
• Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Mission
• Home of the NEAR Mission
• Deep Space 1 Mission - JPL.
• ESA Rosetta Mission
• Stardust Mission
• THE ALVAREZ ASTEROID IMPACT THEORY Goodbye Dinosaurs!
• Clark Chapman's Papers on the Impact Hazard from Near-Earth Asteroids. 
  Comets, Culture, & Currency - direct social and physical impact of comet debris during the holocene.
• Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page.
• Barringer Meteor Crater - meteors and impacts.
• Comets (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.
• Impact Site - meteorite photographs google search.
• Meteorite Central
• International Meteor Organization (IMO).
• Small Comet impacts  - 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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SOME LINKS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC  AND SKEPTICAL VIEW OF THE WORLD  

• Skeptical Inquirer  (The Magazine for Science and Reason ) 
• Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Home Page    CLEARS UP MISCONCEPTION AND NONSENSE IN ASTRONOMY AND RELATED SCIENCES   
• Center for inquiry
•  CSICOP History Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
• CSH  Council for Secular Humanism
• JAMES RANDI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
• Crank.net   (CRANK DOT NET..CRANKS, CRACKPOTS, KOOKS AND LOONS ON THE NET!)
• Understanding Evolution ( A ONE-STOP SOURCE ON EVOLUTION AT BERKELEY )
• RESOURCES FOR THE SKEPTIC A MULTPLE SOURCE OF LINKS FROM CSICOP DEBUNKING ASTROLOGY, UFO'S, CREATIONISM ,URBAN LEGENDS, ETC. AS WELL AS , EXCELLENT "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" ON IMPORTANT TOPICS LIKE RELIGION, HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY ETC.
• The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster   A humorous answer to politicians forcing the teaching of intelligent design in public schools.
• National Center for Science Education
• Speaking of Faith   Public Radio     Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Each week, Now in a Book.
• Exploring the Creation/ Evolution Controversy:At Talk.origins Usenet  Check out the link on the "evidence for Evolution especially".