ASTRONOMY PAGE

Planetary data and best NASA images of planets. The icon is an image of Jupiter.
Planetary data and images by U. S. Geological Survey Flagstaff Field Center of planets and their satellites in our solar system.
Views of The Solar System by C.J.Hamilton.
Planetary Photojourney by NASAcontains images and data for planets, their satellites and other bodies in our solar system.
The Nine Planets A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.
The Nine Planets Glossary presented by Astronomy Department of Arizona State University.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space presents a lot of interesting Astronomy related materials.
Messier Objects Catalog maintained by SEDS contains basic data and growing number of images.

Latest infrared, magnetic and x-ray Sun images. The icon presents a typical infrared image of the solar surface taken at a wavelength of He I 10830 A. Such full size actual images are available via Internet from National Solar Observatory almost every day.

All about HST including Latest Discoveries. The icon presents a HST view of very young galaxy that existed in this form about twelve billions years ago. The galaxy is visible as a small "cloud" to the right and slightly down of large white blob with four diagonal spikes, which is a quasar. The galaxy was discovered in September 1994.
Astronomy Picture of the Day selected by Robert Nemiroff (NASA) are featuring the best and most educational photographs in astronomy.

What is Hubble's Constant. The icon is a HST image of M-100 galaxy in Virgo cluster. Discovery of cepheids (variable stars) there made possible to determine Hubble's constant and the age of Universe.
Measurements of Hubble's Constant. During the 1920's, Edwin Hubble working with observations from the Mount Wilson Observatory discovered that the Universe is expanding.

Times of Sun and Moon Rises and Sets This service provided by US Navy lets you find out times of Sun and Moon rises and sets on any day and anywhere in USA.
Directoriate of Time Web Home Page contains lot of information about time including software to synchronize your PC with time servers.

Astronomy @ USD This website is maintained by Dr. Chris Keating..
National Optical Astronomy Observatory Educational Resources The NOAO Educational Outreach Program was established to make the science and scientists of NOAO more accessible to the K-12 and college-level communities. You will find there links to more information about opportunities and resources for teachers and students..
Basic of Space Flight by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory provides fundamental scientific principles of space flights inside of the Solar System.
Measuring the Solar System; this section of Lecture Notes by Michael Fowler from Physics Dept. of University of Virginia explains how ancient Greeks were able to estimate distances in Solar System.

SkyView is a Virtual Observatory on the Net. SkyView generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from radio to gamma-ray. Look in the What's New page in help for the latest. The icon shows the fluctuations of famous Background Radiation of entire sky taken by COBE telescope.

Astronomy Museum in Bologna. The icon presents a tower of medieval house in Bologna that was once used as an astronomical observatory. Actually this house is the site of the Astronomy Museum.
History of Astronomy from Center of Astronomy History at Bonn University in Germany.

Last update: Dec 05, 2003
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