Space and Astronomy

• 75th Anniversary Astronomical Debate (1995): This debate illustrates forcefully how tricky it is to pick one's way through the treacherous ground that characterizes research at the frontiers of science."
  
  
• Air & Space Smithsonian Magazine: The adventure of flight and space travel - for an audience with a special interest in the history and technology of aerospace.

• Asteroids: A history of the discovery of the asteroids
  
  
• Astronomy Picture of the Day: Each day this site features a different image or photograph of the universe, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
  
  
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: From July 16 through July 22, 1994, fragments of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter.
  
  
• Earth and Moon Viewer: Interactive server which lets you view the Earth and Moon, as illuminated by the Sun at
  the time of your request, from a variety of viewpoints.

• The Face of Venus: Learn about the surface of the planet Venus through hypertext documents and interactive databases of craters and coronae.
  
• High-Energy Astrophysics Learning Center: This site is primarily dedicated to a discussion of the High-Energy region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  
  
• History of Astronomy: These pages are a catalog of people, places, and discoveries important to the field of astronomy and its development through history.
  
  
• History of Paris-Meudon-Nancay Observatory: Pages in French. The oldest of the modern observatories.
  
  
• Hubble Space Telescope's Photo Gallery of the Universe: A selection of Hubble's most spectacular images.
  
• Live From ... the Hubble Space Telescope: The great planet debate will help decide which planet(s) to observe, and what research to suggest.
  
  
• Live From the Stratosphere (LFS): Take a virtual trip aboard NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, which flies at 41,000 feet to study planets, stars and galaxies with its infrared telescope.
   
• Mars: Pathfinder Mission
   
• MIT Center for Space Research: Supports a broad range of space-related research by scientists in many departments.
  
• Moon: Clemente Mission
   
• Moonlink: Bringing space down to earth.
  
  
• NASA Information Services via World Wide Web
   
• NASA K-12 Internet Initiative
   
• NASA/Johnson Space Center
   
• NASA/Kennedy Space Center Home Page
   
• NASA Spacelink
   
• NASA - Online Interactive Projects: Experience outer space in your home/classroom!
  
  
• NASA Aerospace Education Services: A nationwide, free program for teachers, students, and the general public, designed to increase awareness and understanding of scientific research and technological development and their place in the world.
  
  NASA Homepage: NASA Homepage.
  
  
• NASA K-12 Internet Initiative: Online interactive projects, past, present and future. Information on NASA grants and other grant opportunities.
  
  
• NASA Langley HPCC K-12 Home Page: The NASA High Performance Computing and Communications K-12 education program, a pilot program that focuses on enhancing the science and mathematics curriculum by transferring NASA's computational technology to the primary and secondary education area.
  
  
• NASA Lewis Research Center: Space Experiments Division of this NASA center.
  
  
• NASA Online Resources: Network resources of interest to users of the NASA Science Internet, especially those resources provided by different NASA Centers or other NASA-funded efforts.
  
  
• NASA Regional Teacher Resource Center (RTRC): A center to serve as a resource for K-12 educators interested in bringing to their classrooms cutting-edge materials relevant to the U.S. space program.
  
  
• NASA Shuttle Web Archives: Shuttle Mission Overviews.
  
  
• NASA Spacelink: An electronic information system designed to provide current educational information to teachers and students throughout the United States.
  
  
• NASA's Astro-2: A high-tech observatory flying for 16 days in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the STS-67 mission.
  
  
• National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) K-12 Educational Outreach Activities: Observatories and telescope projects; current science events; general NOAO services; newsletter; other links to the astronomical community.
   
• National Space Science Data Center NSSDC provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar and planetary data from NASA space flight missions.
  
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.

•  Planetary Exploration: Io: Jupiter's Volcanic Moon

• Pluto Meets SAO 140853: In the framework of a long term research program, active since 1968, on the Pluto orbit determination, a close encounter of the planet with a well known, 7-th magnitude star has been observed at the Padova Observatory.
  
• Satellite Images

• The Shodor Education Foundation: The Galaxy Curriculum is a large collection of resources (software, lesson plans, tutorials, models and more) that allow students and teachers to learn about galaxies.
  
  
• Shuttle Missions (CBS Coverage) - The Space Space: CBS News Space Consultant Bill Harwood, a veteran aerospace writer who has covered NASA's ups and downs for more than a decade, serves up the inside scoop on upcoming shuttle flights and other happenings on the high frontier.
  
  
• SKY Online: A source for astronomical news and information. Home of Sky & Telescope and CCD Astronomy magazines and the Sky Publishing Catalog of astronomy-related books and products.

• SkyWise: an astronomy comic strip featured every month in sky & telescope magazine. 

• Space Calendar (JPL): Covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year.
  
  
• Space Simulations Project: Space science educators and members of the aerospace community involved in the use of classroom and school space simulators (including permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary simulators).
  
  
• Space Telescope Science Institute: STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
  
• Space Shuttle
   
• Shuttle Launches from Kennedy Space Center
   
• Space Telescope Electronic Information Service
   
• The Space-Time Travel Machine: Pictures and MPEG Animations.
  
  
• StarChild: A learning center for young astronomers, sponsored by the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC).
  
  
• UMASS Astronomy Program: Research, projects, data archives, courseware. Outside references useful to astronomers, other WWW resources.

   

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