Astronomy 12 Links

Pretty Pictures and Miscellaneous

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/skyview.html

Skyview - a virtual multi-wavelength observatory

(This multi-wavelength "virtual observatory" by Thomas McGlynn allows you to dial up any part of the sky and ask to see what it looks like in various bands of the electro-magnetic spectrum. You can also find specific objects, such as the brightest stars.
Caution - the optical here is almost TOO sensitive. If you look at bright stars and objects they will flood the field with light.)

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SubjectT.html

Picture galary from Hubble Space Telescope

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/first_images.html

Images from the new Chandra X-Ray Astronomy Facility

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xmm/xmm_firstlight.htm

X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission website

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/dictionary.html

An astronomical dictionary

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/science.html

Explore various topics - a tutorial

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/violence-root.html

Colorful - public lecture on violent events in the cosmos

http://cfata2.harvard.edu/whp/ay45top.html

Notes from Bill Press' introductory astrophysics course at Harvard. More technical than ours...

http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/lucia/a100/links.html

More links to links, especially astronomy courses at other universities

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/text.html

Hypertext astronomy textbook

http://casasrv.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml

Black Holes

http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/tie/program.html

Remotely operated telescope

http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/rot.htm

Remotely operated telescope

http://www-astro.physics.uiowa.edu/Curriculum/curriculum_index.shtml

Remotely operated telescope

http://ParticleAdventure.org/

General description of particle physis and the standard model

(In particular, there is a nice one page summary you should check out.)

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/messier_list.html

The Messier Catalog

http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html

Many beautiful color pictures from the southern hemisphere (Anglo Australian Telescope). But read the copyright notice.

http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/

Another collection of beautiful photos from the European Southern Observatory.

http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/

The image collection of the National Opical Astronomy Observatories

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack

Shows the orbits of the satellites and their ground path in roughly realtime.

http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/kirshner/

From the Institute for Theoretical Physics
Kirshner discussing the age, size, and expansion rate of the universe (just images from a talk).

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The HEASARC is a source of gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet observations of cosmic (non-solar) sources.

Scientific American Articles

http://www.sciam.com/specialissues/0398cosmos/0398quicksummary.html

The Magnificent Cosmos (Scientific American article)

Look in particular at the articles by the following authors: Marcy, Angel, Starrfield, Peebles, Freedman and Rubin.

http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299weinberg.html

The standard model for particle physics - and its future

http://www.sciam.com/1296issue/1296hogan.html

Deuterium production in the Big Bang

http://www.sciam.com/1196issue/1196kargel.html

Climate change on Mars

http://www.sciam.com/0797issue/0797fishman.html

Gamma-ray Bursts

http://www.sciam.com/0597issue/0597karl.html

Nearterm greenhouse effects - the Earth

http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100hoffman.html

The greenhouse effect and the ancient earth

http://www.sciam.com/0197issue/0197swordy.html

Cosmic rays