Astronomy

 General (updated 6/9/11)

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Bad Astronomy - Astronomer Phil Plait's Web Site. Check out for wild claims!
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
• Physical Constants and Astronomical Data
• BLACK HOLES by Ted Bunn 
• NASA Homepage
• NASA WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace (Goddard Space flight Center broad resource)
• Stephen Hawking's Universe
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• American Astronomical Society
• International Astronomical Union
• Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) (resources public to scientists)
• European Space Agency (ESA)
• SPACEWATCH (study of asteroids and comet  to investigate the dynamical evolution of the solar system)
• Spaceweather.com  (Sun-Earth environment news and info)
• Space.com ( NASA Information & News,Outer Space Flights, Astronomy)
• Lists of Space agencies worldwide

Image Galleries & Archives (updated 6/10/11) 

• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Hubble Space Telescope Images
• Hubble Animations
• Space Image Libraries
• Views of the Solar System
• Web Nebulae( images of famous nebulae)
• Digitized Sky Survey
• Project Galileo
• Other Worlds, Distant Suns(catalog of extrasolar systems)
• Pretty Pictures - (large set of links to image sites at NRAO)
• First Light with a 67-Million-Pixel WFI Camera (ESO Press Release 02/99)
• HST Images by Subject
• Image data base system of ALPO (Association of Lunar/Planetary observers)

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Centers & Institutes updated 6/10/11

• Department of Engineering Science and Physics at the College of Staten Island
• SETI Institute
• Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page
• Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers ALPO
• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• IAU Minor Planet Center
• Center of Advanced Space Studies

• Clubs and Organizations    updated 6/10/11

  • Rockland Astronomy Club Home Page
  • United Astronomy Clubs of New Jersey, Inc.
  • The New Jersey Astronomical Association
  • Amateur Astronomers Association
  • The Planetary Society

      Data Bases & Indexes     updated 6/10/11

•   A Space Library(NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos).

•   Data Online - Data Services of USNO  

•   AstroWeb: Astronomy/ Astrophysics Database of links on the Internet  

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  Magazines & Journals       updated 6/10/11

  • ASTRONOMY Magazine
  • Sky & Telescope Magazine
  • Popular Astronomy magazine (Society for Popular Astronomy)  UK)
  • The Astronomer magazine (for advanced amateur)
  • Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IAU commisson) advanced 
  • Astronomy Now
  • Journal of the British Astronomical Assoc.
  • Space News
  
  

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  Some News & Info.              updated 6/10/11     

  • CNN - Science - Technology: Space
  • Sky and Telescope -- AstroAlert News Service
  • The New York Times on the Web
  • NY1 News | Homepage
  •  1010 WINS (CBS)News Radio, New York
  • ABCNEWS.com
  • CNN Interactive
  • Staten Island Live
  • The New York Times: Technology
  • CyberTimes Education Index
    

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  Impacts with Asteroids and Comets (related to research at this observatory)     updated 6/13/11         

  • NASA Planetary Aseroid Page
  • NASA Planetary Comet Page
  • NASA Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard home
  • Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards by Dr David Morrison.
  • The IAU Minor Planet Center at Harvard (Main place for asteroid hunters) - MPC.
  • Spaceguard Foundation
  • The Spaceguard Foundation home page
  • NEODyS-NEO ASTEROID INFORMATION
  • Alt Impact Hazard: 1997 XF11
  • Lowell Observatory - Asteroid Observing Services
  • European Asteroid Research Node A group of independant European organizations involved in Asteroid Research
  • PDSSBN: Small Solar System Bodies.
  • Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Home Page (NEAT).
  • Spacewatch Dr Tom Gehrels.
  • International Amateur-Professional Photoelectric Photometry
  • 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.
  • Movie Deep Impact
  • 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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  Modern Astronomy History              updated 6/11/11  

  • 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
  • Yahoo! Astronomy History
  • Yale History of  Science
  •  Einstein Archive Online
    

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  Ancient Astronomy History              updated 6/11/11 

  • 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 Japan
  • Aztec Creation Story
  • Babylonian Planetary Theory & the Heliocentric Concept
  • Greek Accomplishments
  • Greek Astronomy
  • History of Astronomy in Ancient India
  • How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars
  • How the Shaman Stole the Moon
  • Hypatia of Alexandria (famous ancient lady astronomer)
  • Japanese Astronomy
  • Japanese Star Charts and Moon Stations
  • Jewish Astronomy
  • 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)
  
  

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   Archaeoastronomy  Resources      updated 6/11/11

  • Archaeoastronomy
  • Archaeoastronomy at Mounds State Park
  • Brief Introduction to Archaeoastronomy
  • Center for Archaeoastronomy
  • Central Texas Sun Dagger
  • Chaco Canyon
  • Clive Ruggle's Archaeoastronomy Images
  • Easter Island Tablets
  • Great Pyramid of Gizza and Orion Correlation Theory
  • History of Astronomy: Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy & Ethnoastronomy
  • Introduction to Archaeoastronomy
  • Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge
  • Stonehenge again
  • Stonehenge: Eclipse Computer?
  • Stonehenge & the Rings of Rock
  • Stonehenge, Wiltshire
  • Sunwheels
    

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  Constellations & Mythology     updated 6/11/11   

  • 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.
  • Constellations & Mythology - Hawaiian Astro. Soc.
  • Myths about the sky

   

  Some Astronomers          updated 6/11/11 

  • Women in Astronomy
  • 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
  • Isaac Newton
  • Isaac Newton Resources
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Johannes Kepler
  • Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion
  • Newton's Cosmological Queries
  • Nicolas Copernicus
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
  • NOVA: Einstein Revealed
  • Observations of Tycho Brahe
  • Paolo Antonio Foscarini
  • Ptolemy
  • Sir Isaac Newton & the Unification of Physics & Astronomy
  • Stephen Hawking Pages
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Tycho Brahe
  • Yahoo! Astronomers
    

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  Weather & Climate & Meteorology  updated 6/9/11

  • Career Information: A Guide to Meteorology Resource
  • The Weather Channel  
  • WABC-TV Eyewitness News AccuWeather Page

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  Life In the Universe             updated 6/12/11    

   

  Astrobiology                   updated 6/11/11  

  • 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 at Home (JOIN THE EFFORT!)
  • SERENDIP Project
  • SETI: Drake Equation
  • SETI Institute
  • SETI League

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  Extrasolar Planets           updated 6/12/11    

  • KEPLER  A SEARC 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
  • Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
  • New Planets
  • Planet Project
  • Yahoo! Extrasolar Planets
    

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  General Observatories       updated 6/12/11 

  • Arecibo Observatory
  • Australia Telescope National Facility
  • Big Bear Solar Observatory
  • California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)
  • College of Staten Island Astrophysical Observatory, Staten Island, NY
  • Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University
  • European Southern Observatory
  • Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
  • Griffith Observatory
  • Infrared Spactial Interferometer
  • Jodrell Bank
  • Keck Observatory
  • Kitt Peak National Observatory
  • Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST)
  • Lick Observatory
  • Lowell Observatory
  • Mauna Kea Observatories
  • M.I.T. Haystack Observatory
  • McDonald Observatory
  • Mount Wilson Observatory
  • National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)
  • National Solar Observatory
  • Large Optical observatories of the World
  • ALL IAU Observatory Latitudes & Longitudes
  • Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)
  • Palomar Observatory
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • Solar & Heliospheric Observatory
  • Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
  • Steward Observatory Mirror Lab
  • United States Naval Observatory
  • Yahoo! Observatories
  • Yerkes Observatory

       

    Observatories in Space         updated 6/12/11 

  • Chandra X-Ray
  • COBE Satellite
  • Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO)
  • Hubble History
  • Hubble Space Telescope
  • National Geographic Star Journey Hubble Space Telescope
  • NASA James Webb Space Telescope
  • Spitzer Space InfraRed Telescope

           Robotic Observatories        updated 6/12/11 

  • Bradford Robotic Space Telescope
  • Tenagra Observatories
  • RoBOSKY CANADA
  • Rockbottom robotic observatory project

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  Observing Techniques & Information       updated 6/12/11   

  • advice for buying a telescope
  • Observing techniques Univ of Virginia
  • TELESCOPE BASICS-amatuer

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  Planetaria & Astronomy Museums       updated 6/12/11    

  • Abrams Planetarium
  • Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Arizona Science Center
  • Astronaut Memorial Planetarium
  • Bishop Museum Planetarium
  • Brahe Planetarium
  • Calgary Science Center
  • Cernan Earth & Space Center
  • Custer Institute Observatory - LI
  • Evans & Sutherland
  • Exploratorium: ExploraNet
  • Fiske Planetarium
  • Flandrau Science Center
  • Fleet Space Theater
  • Fleischmann Planetarium
  • Hansen (CLARK) Planetarium
  • Hayden Planetarium, Rose Center for Earth and Space
  • Northern Lights Planetarium
  • Other Planetarium  world list
  • So You Want to Build a Planetarium
  • Strasenburgh Planetarium
  • Yahoo! Planetaria
  • Yahoo! Space Museums
  • Zeiss Star Projector
  • GOTO Star Projector
  •  Spitz Star Projector
  • Konica-Minolta Star Projector
    

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  Some General Science           updated 6/13/11      

  • Earth and Sky Homepage
  • SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Science and Engineering Online Resources
  • Science Channel  
  • Geological Association of New Jersey
  • TLC
    

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  Some Useful Search engines         updated 6/13/11    

  • Google Search Engine
  • WebCrawler
  • AltaVista: Main Page
  • Switchboard Home Page
  • SEARCH.COM
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  Sky Happenings                updated 6/13/11    

  • Naked-Eye Stargazing: Learning the Sky
  • Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures
  • Astronomy Now: Night Sky this week
  • Sky and Telescope - observing
  • USNO Astronomical Applications Department
  • Astronomical Magazine your sky tonight  
  • Star Pronunciation Guide
  
  

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  Focus on The Solar System

  OVERVIEW                  updated 6/13/11           
  
  • The Virtual Sun
  • Views of the Solar System
  • Galileo Home Page (JPL)
  • Cassini Home Page
  • Mars Global Surveyor - Welcome to Mars!
  • The Nine Planets tour
  • NASA Planetary Science Home

  

  The Sun                    updated 6/13/11    

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

  Mercury                 updated 6/13/11         

  • NASA Planetary Mercury Page
  • NASA Mission to Mercury MESSENGER
  
   

  Venus                        updated 6/13/11    

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

  Earth               updated 6/13/11   
  
  
  

  • 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  
  • The PCL Map Collection
  • Astronaut Earth photography database
  • NOAA NWS recent Weather Satellite Images of US
  • The Cascades Volcano Observatory
  • Oceanography WWW Data Servers
  • Ozone Hole Watch
  • US EPA (OZONE,ACID RAIN, CLIMATE CHANGE)
  • NASA Planetary Earth Page
  
   

  

  The Moon       updated 6/13/11   

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

  

  Mars           updated 6/13/11   

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

  Jupiter        updated 6/13/11   

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

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  Saturn updated 6/13/11       

  • Cassini Mission to Saturn
  •  NASA Planetary Saturn Page
  
  

  
   

  Uranus  updated 6/13/11       

  •  NASA Planetary Uranus Page
  
  

  
   

  Neptune updated 6/13/11      

  • Views of the Solar System Neptune Page
  
  

   

  Pluto   updated 6/13/11      

  • The Pluto and the Kuiper belt
  • New horizon mission
  •  NASA Planetary Pluto Page
    

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  Asteroids, Comets & Meteors  updated 6/13/11        

  • NASA Planetary Aseroid Page
  • NASA Planetary Comet Page
  
  

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  SPACE EXPLORATION

   

  Rocketry & Propulsion    updated 6/14/11              

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

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  General Space Exploration      updated 6/17/11            

  • Americans Respond: Project Mercury
  • America's independent Space Program
  • Apollo 11
  • Apollo 13 Accident
  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  • BeppoSax Mission
  • BOOMERANG: Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation & Geophysics
  • 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)
  • Piloting Astronauts
  • Pioneer Missions
  • Planetary Missions Summary-NASA index
  • Planetary Science Spacecraft
  • Remote Sensing
  • Russian Space Programs
  • Real Time Satellite Tracking
  • Shuttle Radar Topography
  • Spacecraft Models
  • Space Exploration Programs
  • Spaceflight & Spacecraft
  • Space History
  • Space Industrial Arts
  • Space Interferometry Mission
  • Space Shuttle
  • Space Shuttle Press Kit
  • Ulysses JPL
  • Voyager 1 & 2
  • Voyager: The Grandest Tour
  • Why Study Space for middle school teachers?
  • X-33 History
  • Yahoo! Spacecraft
  • Yahoo! Spaceshuttle
  • Yohkoh Japaneses-Nasa mission & the Sun
    

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  Space Colonization           updated 6/20/11      

  • 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?
    

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  Interstellar Travel        updated 6/20/11   

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

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  STARS (some basic astrophysics)          updated 6/20/11    

  • 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.
  • Black Holes and Neutron Stars -non-technical
  • Eclipsing Binary Stars
  • Magnetars - news from NASA about super-magnetic neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts.
  • Magnetars and SGRS(soft gamma repeaters) - information on these and very strong magnetic fields.
  • OH Megamasers
  •   Stellar Evolution - Extensive links to all phases of star formation to  stellar death.
  • Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Page
  • Wormholes

  GALAXIES        updated 6/20/11         

  • Canadian Galactic Plane Survey
  • Journey through the Galaxy
  • Milky Way Galaxy, The
  • Milky Way System
  • Milky Way, The   NASA
  • Multiwavelength Milky Way NASA
  • Our Own Galaxy: The Milky Way
  • Dwarf Galaxy Research "Dwarf Tales"
  •  NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

  
  

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  Astrophysics

  General Astrophysics        updated 6/21/11         

  • A course in astrophysics for non-scientist -Prof Charles Bailyn-Yale at Academic Earth-register to use
  • A course in The Foundations of Modern Physics -advanced-Prof Leonard Susskind -Stanford University at Academic Earth-register to use
  • A course in Modern  Theoretical Physics -advanced-Prof Leonard Susskind -Stanford University at Academic Earth-register to use
  • Astrophysics-Wikipedia
  • Astrophysics-NASA
  • Fundamental Force of nature
  • Gravitational Perturbations & the Prediction of New Planets
  • Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Astrophysics News-Science Daily
  • Astrophysics and Cosmology at NYU
  • Astrophysics and Astronomy-Columbia University
  • Astrophysics Department at the Rose Center-AMNH
  • Astrophysics Visualization Archive-Hayden Planetarium
  •  NSSDC-NASA Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • Sir Isaac Newton: The Universal Law of Gravitation
  • Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
  • Motion, Gravity & Orbits I
  • Motion, Gravity & Orbits II
  • Movies from the Edge of Spacetime
  • Newtonian Gravitation & the Laws of Kepler
  • Newton's Three Laws of Motion
  • A full year course in Physics -calcualus based Prof Ramamurti Shankar-Yale at Academic Earth-register to use
  • Vectors: Velocities, Accelerations & Forces
  • Orbital Motion-Wikepedia
  • Orbits in 2D
  • Orbits in 3D
  • Principle of Equivalence Genral Relativity (see below special sections on relativity)
  • Titius-Bode Law-Wikepedia

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  Relativity - (General & Special)....updated 6/23/11 

  • A full year course in Physics -Calculus based Prof Ramamurti Shankar-Yale at Academic Earth-register to use
  • A course in The Foundations of Modern Physics -advanced-Prof Leonard Susskind -Stanford University at Academic Earth-register to use
  • Einstein Archive Online
  • Albert Einstein & the Theories of Relativity
  • Albert Einstein & the Theory of Relativity-Wikepedia
  • 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
  • Principle of Equivalence Genral Relativity-Wikepedia
  • Geometry of Spacetime Wikepedia
  • The Fourth Dimension Wikepedia
  • Introduction to Differential Geometry & General Relativity Technical
  • Light Cone: An Illuminating Introduction to Relativity
  • 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
  • Special Relativity
  • Special Relativity
  • Special Relativity FAQ
  • Special Relativity Questions
  • Special Relativity & Supernovae
  • Special Relativity: What Time Is It?
  • Theory: Special Relativity
  • Time Dilation-Wikepedia
  • Twin Paradox
  • Unaccelerated Twin Paradox
  • Yahoo! Relativity

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  Electromagnetic Spectrum & Light   updated 6/26/11    

  • 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
  • Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC)
  • NASA Gamma Ray Astronomy
  • NASA Gamma Ray Detectors
  • Interaction of Radiation and Matter
  • Inverse Square Law
  • Light & Color
  • Light Curves, Spectra, & Images
  • Multiwavelength Astronomy
  • Nature of Light
  • Photon Nature of Light
  • light: wave -particle Duality
  • Spectra in Astronomy
  • Spectra & What Scientists Can Learn from Them NASA
  • Spectral Analysis
  • Star Light Star Bright
  • Ultraviolet
  • X-Ray Astronomy
  • X-ray Detectors
  • X-ray Generation
  • Why the Sky is Blue
  • Yahoo! Gamma Ray Observation

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  Radio Astronomy                    updated 6/28/11   

  • 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
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