Has the mythology of astronomy got you confused? Here's a neat site for ........... Mythology
Here's a site where telescopes are reviewed, criticized, praised or whatever ............ EdTing
The Astronomical League is a vast organization of numerous astro societies ..... AstroLeague
Here's the Harris Catalog for data on all 147 Milky Way globular clusters ..... HarrisCatalog
Here's an awesome site listing the personal homepages of some 400 astronomers .... The List
Get the schedule for satellites or see where the Space Station is now ........... Heavens Above
Run across a new scientific term that baffles you? Find an answer at the ....... TreasureTroves
This is where you find out about new discoveries such as comets, nova,
supernova, asteroids,
etc. You can also subscribe to their announcements (called "circulars").
And, if you discover
one of these, this is where you report it .............. Central
Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
NASA's stunning picture-of-the-day site, which won the 1995 Cool Site
of the Year award,
also has an extensive index that goes back for many years .................
NASA's Daily
Picture
"Home of The Northern Lights" is all about these mysterious phenomena known as Aurorae
This site keeps track of aurorae and presents real-time maps of their doings .. Aurorae Maps
Here are big telescope pictures (indexed) of many of the sky's NGC objects ....... NGC Pix
Free astronomy software and demos for Windows, DOS and MACs at ..... AstroSoftware
Locate the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA's former Mir
site ................. MIR
If you have lots of time to kill then visit NASA's main website.
Good stuff here ..... NASA
NASA now maintains a weather station for magnetic storms, northern lights, etc NASAWx
Here's the site where NASA keeps tabs on asteroids hazardous to our health ..... NEAT
The space probe Galileo is currently orbiting Jupiter. All its data is at this site ......... Galileo
A neat Java applet showing Jupiter's moons in real time like bees a-buzzing .... Jovians Moons
Here's an image gallery of stars and objects seen from ground-based observatories NOAO
The Hubble's Space Telescope's main site which surprisingly is very
stingy with its releases
(one a month); but the exquisite "Heritage Series" pictures are worth
the trouble ..... Hubble
and you can also get to their index of astronomical photo releases
at another site ... Hubble2
Here's the homepage of the guys with the monster radio telscopes in New Mexico NRAO
The main site for NASA's exotic Chandra -- the new telescope that sees X-rays ... Chandra
Cosmology has been defined as "groping around in a pitch-black room
looking for
a black cat that isn't there." The guys at this site try very
hard to be convincing ..... Cosmos
The British Astronomical Association presents data on just about all astro events The BAA
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is a portal to many other Canadian sites RASC
Here is a well-organized, novice-friendly observatory site in Sweden .... Uppsala Observatory
A space art gallery is now available for the other-world artists and illustrators ...... Space Art
A repository for data on new planets has been established at a site in France ..... New Planets
Every displine has its "killer" site ... here's the killer for Astronomy
& Astrophysics AstroWeb
Time-share a telescope and do research projects at the University of
Iowa ... Iowa Telescope
The hallowed ground of all stargazers is the venerable Astronomy Cafe
...... The
Sacred Place
The internationnal site for anything to do with meteors, meteorites, fire balls, etc ..... The IMO
Want to bury youself in astro sites by the hundreds for a month or so? ... Sites & Sites & Sites
Here's an astronomer willing to debunk myths, misconceptions, falsehoods .... Bad Astronomy
The site for variable stars is at the American Assoc of Variable Star Observers ..... AAVSO
For info on our solar system denizens see Assoc of Lunar and Planetary
Observers .... ALPO
(Note: ALPO maintains an incredible list of national
and international astro clubs)
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at Arizona University ......... SEDS
Found a meteor? or maybe you just want to know about meteors in general? ........... Kring
A site devoted exclusively to those mysterious star balls in our galactic
halo ... Globular
Clusters
Here's the Planetary Nebulae Observer's Home Page (an award-winning
site) ......... Planetaries
Gamma ray bursts are the most violent events in the cosmos. They
come from anywhere, at any
time. They are hunted as religiously as tornadoes. Here's
their bulletin board ..... GRB
Bulletins
Satellite watcher? ... Info, data, software on the Visual Satellite Observers Home Page ... SATS
The French maintain a site where all(?) the galactic catalogs are kept on file (in English) ... CATS
NASA/IPAC maintain all(?) the extragalactic catalogs for your perusal
at CalTech...MoreCATS