General Astronomy Links

Of Interest to Researchers...

• The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Home Page
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Home Page
• The American Geophysical Union (AGU) Home Page (and their Space Physics division)
• STScI's Large AstroWeb Resource List
• NASA's extensive listing of Space Science missions (see also the home page for NASA's Office of Space Science)
• NASA's News Releases
• Space Science News Items from Marshall Space Flight Center
• Who's Who in Space Science (an online directory to home pages of space scientists)
• Meetings and conferences: Astronomy . . . APS . . . Plasma Science
• MAPS: SkyView interactive observatory, John Walker's Your Sky (interactive planetarium), the Mt. Wilson Stargazer Map, MapQuest, and the Xerox PARC earth viewer

For locating abstracts and preprints, it's best to probably start with the ADS Abstract Service, or go directly to various online preprint/abstract servers:

• arXiv (formerly Los Alamos) astro-ph
• Harvard-Smithsonian
• Princeton
• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Armagh Observatory

Many of the most important journals in astronomical research now have online editions. Some have complete collections of online articles, as well, but one often must subscribe to access them. See:

• The Astrophysical Journal (U. of Chicago Press)
• The Astronomical Journal
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Solar Physics (Kluwer Academic)
• Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
• Geophysical Research Letters
• Space Science Reviews (Kluwer Academic)
• Physical Review Letters
• Nature
• New Astronomy (Elsevier Science)

• The Hot Star Newsletter (which is also archived in Europe)
• The Be Star Newsletter
• SolarNews
• The COOLNEWS Cool Star Newsletter
• The AGU Space Physics and Aeronomy Section Newsletter
• The Delta Scuti Star Newsletter (now superceded by the journal Communications in Asteroseismology
• The A-Peculiar Star Newsletter/Blog
• The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
• The AGB Star Newsletter
• The Star Formation Newsletter

Some research-related computing sites:

• The Numerical Recipes Home Page
• GAMS: Guide to Available Mathematical Software - lots of numerical routines
• The program library for Computer Physics Communications (CPC)
• The Astrophysics Source Code Library
• The home page of Wolfram Research, Makers of Mathematica
• The Sun Fortran 77 Language Reference
• NETLIB Mathematical software
• The TeX Users Group
• The home page for the Versatile Advection Code, a hydrodynamics and MHD code maintained by Gabor Toth and Rony Keppens
• The public-access version of John Blondin's VH-1 Hydro Code

Some sites containing atomic data of use to astronomers:

• Atomic Data for Astrophysics
• Atomic & Molecular Database for Astronomy
• The CHIANTI spectroscopic diagnostic package
• Free Software for Atomic and Plasma Physics
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• An online database for atomic data from the Opacity Project at Strasbourg
• Bob Kurucz's web/ftp site with atomic data, model atmospheres, and latest versions of the ATLAS software
• An interactive Periodic Table of the Elements at Los Alamos.

Astronomy education is getting more and more attention on the Web. For now, one can start with the following sites: (more to be added soon...)

• The AAS Education Office Resource and Support Page
• Roettger's Astronomer's Education Notebook
• Astronomers often have to approximate!

Of Interest to Anyone...

• The Nine Planets, a neat overview of the solar system
• Amazing Space, a set of educational web-based activities about various topics in astronomy
• A general and comprehensive Physics FAQ
• What color are the stars?
• A listing of Internet Planetarium pages
• Ever wonder what strange things space-time does when you're near a Black Hole?
• Philadelphia's Franklin Institute Science Museum has many online exhibits and links to other educational sites
• Some information about the science behind those novelty Plasma Globes
• The University of Oregon has an extensive collection of Images of Galaxies, as well as several HyperText Books on Astronomy and Physics
• There are also various astronomy syllabi, courses, and text material at the World Lecture Hall and Astrotext sites
• Of particular note is also the New Star Gazers Home Page
• Finally, the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space have a vast online network of astronomical and space resources

Some sites devoted to archaeoastronomy and the history of astronomy:

• A German Working Group on the History of Astronomy (which has an archive of electronic newsletters).
• Vatican exhibit of Ancient Greek Astronomy.
• An online 15th Century Plannetenbuch.
• The Out of This World exhibition of antique star atlases.
• The History of Astronomical Spectroscopy.
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere, a comprehensive history of space physics and magnetic fields in the solar system.
• The Perseus Project, an evolving digital library of classical scholarship. See, e.g., a paper on ancient Greek astronomy: Inventing the Solar System.
• The home page of Gary Thompson, which contains a great deal of information on the history of constellations and the names of stars.

GO BACK to Steven Cranmer's Home Page, or to the Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Home Page.