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Table of Contents

• Astronomy Instructional Materials
• SuperNova and Black Holes
• Our Solar System
  • Plate Tectonics
• Our Sun--Quicktime and MPEGs of Eclipses and Solar Activity
• Our Milky Way and Beyond
• Specific Info on Constellations
• Aboriginal & Ancient Star Knowledge
• The Rest of the Astro Links!

Interesting Web Pages at this Site

Trop Ecosystem Courses

• Tropical Ecosystems of the Florida Keys, Everglades, and San Salvador, Bahamas
• Tropical Ecosystems of Costa Rica
• Trop Ecosystem Images: From the Costa Rica & the Bahamas Courses

Weather Sites (Maps, Forecasts, Satellite Imagery, Satellite Movies, Hurricanes, Severe Weather, Computer Models, Radar, etc)

• Weather Sites-Home Base (The whole nine yards!)
  • "Text Only" Link of the same weather sites as above, minus many graphics. Not as interesting, but download time is much quicker!
• Satellite Imagery- Table of Contents (Mostly Hyper-Links-Fast Downloads)
• Satellite Movie Downloads (Select real-time satellite movies and images automatically downloaded.)
• Hurricanes & Tropical Weather- View on the Weather Sites Main or as a stand alone experience!
• Just the Maps & Views!-While far from complete, these downloaded views provide for a satisfying overview of North American Weather.

Astronomy Instructional Materials

The Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day, a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

• Ever wonder how to pronounce Betelgeuse? Visit the Astronomy Pronounciation Guide from Earth and Sky
  • Nightly Sky HIGHLIGHTS I know I'll visit here!
• PHYsLINK--An amazing physics and astronomy resource. And so much more!
• A CNN quicktime movie of the successful deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope from the Space Shuttle!
• Starry Skies is a very educational and fun astronomy site full of useful inforamtion and articles! EXCELLENT SITE!
• Astronomy Picture of the Day Index!Complete index of some of the most fascinating pictures on the net.
  • Messier Objects by Number!
  • Spiral Galaxies!
  • Galaxy Clusters!
  • Unusual Galaxies!
  • Active Galactic Nuclei!
• Cosmology and the Evolution of Life ( A really Cool on line Astronomy Syllabus!--From the Electronic Universe Project
  • Formation of an atmosphere and early Origin of Life Moving towards DNA Stellar Evolution
• Tutorial An MPEG of the Hertzprung-Russel Diagram From the Electronic Universe Project
• -Quicktime Movies The Education and Public Outreach Page of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
• Index of SOHO Lessons --Distance and Proportion, Composition of Solar Wind, Rotation of the Sun
• The Art of Renaissance Science:Galileo and Perspective Amazing Resource!!!Quicktime Movies
  • Galileo and the Mathematics of Motion. His most famous experiment involved testing Aristotle's belief (widely accepted by all) that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter bodies. Here is an Quicktime Movie of Galileo's "test" of this theory.
  • The Inclined Plane Experiments "Galileo used an Inclined Plane to "slow" gravity down and get a handle on the Acceleration of Gravity. Galileo discovered, from one second to the next as a ball rolls down an inclined plane, the ratios of the distances covered increase by odd numbers, by intervals of 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc. regardless of the angle of the plane. He found that the total distance covered is proportional to the square of the time.This Excellent Quicktime Movie demonstrates this principle."
  • Galileo's Analysis of Projectile Motion
  • Heavenly Bodies
  • The Inquisition.
• Essay on Special RelativityBy Michael Fowler, Univ of Virginia, Dept of Physics
• Physics 109N Home Page: Galileo and Einstein
• History of Mathematics: Albert Enstein
  • Comprehensive site with numerous links to Albert Enstein
• Aristarchus of Samos Aristarchus was a mathematician and astronomer who is celebrated as the exponent of a Sun-centred universe and for his pioneering attempt to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon.
  • Aristarchus's Discoveries
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Astronomy 161
• The Solar System Absolutely Fantastic Site!
  • A Sense of Time and Scale in the Universe
  • Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion
  • Students at Miami University (Ohio) made a Kepler Discovery Lab (using the Galilean satellites and a Celestron telescope) to demonstrate the applicability of Kepler's Laws. Congratulations on a job well done!
  • Sir Isaac Newton and the Unification of Physics & Astronomy
  • Galileo: the Telescope & the Laws of Dynamics
  • Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
• Quicktime Movies: Kepler's Laws. From "Imagine" NASA
  • Kepler's Law#1
  • Kepler's Law#2
  • Kepler's Law#3
  • A "Kepler Combo"
• The University of Alabama Department of Physics and Astronomy
  • UA Astronomy's Instructional Resources
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • Teachers Newsletter
  • Professional Publications
  • The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Some Really Cool Physics Experiments from Mt. Allison University Physics 3401 Class
  • Distribution of Crater Sizes on the earth's moon
  • Weighing Jupiter
  • Investigation of Dark Matter
  • Astrophysical Measurements
• A Moon Lab: A discovery-oriented lab investigating phases of the moon.
• Educator's Guide to Impact Craters-Cratering in your Classroom
• A Sun Lab: A lab using sun angles to determine latitude
• The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere- NASA presents a detailed survey of 40 yrs of studies and discoveries.
  • The Aurora: The Basics, Briefly

Our Solar System

How many planetary systems are in this massive spiral galaxy?

• A sad and fascinating Quicktime movie of the January 28, 1986 Challenger tragedy, from CNN.
• The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System by Bill Arnett
• Mercury A Solar System Models Page
• Calculate your weight on other Worlds!!
• SEDS: An overview of our solar system Absolutely a must visit!
  • Mercury- The Nine Planets
    • Mecury-NASA
  • The Face of Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Jupiter Another Fine Jupiter Site Go Here for a Jupiter Photo Gallery
    • Space Craft Galileo Of course, there is the Galileo Home Page (JPL) and a Galileo Probe Site All have excellent pictures!
  • Saturn
    • Titan Titan is the fifteenth of Saturn's known satellites and the largest. A very initeresting moon. Some say it may represent what the earth's atmosphere was like when the solar system first formed.
  • Neptune
    • TritonTriton [TRY-tun] is the largest moon of Neptune. Triton is scarred by enormous cracks
  • Uranus
• Planetary Science Spacecraft
• Planetary Research (Univ of Wisconsin)Pioneer Spacecraft History of Missions
• Voyager Project Home Page Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Beyond!
• History of Space Exploration
• Astronomy 161 The Solar System Absolutely Fantastic Site!
• Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging- A Guide to NSSDC's Planetary Image Archives
• Calendar of Planet Positions (This program spits out the constellation a planet will be in in any given year)
• A key discovery, in the articulation and eventual acceptance of the "Copernican System," was the understanding of Planetary Retrograde Motion. Man, what a key insight! Tunc Tezel contributed an awesome animated gif of Jupiter and Saturn (APOD 12/20/01) demonstrating their retrograde dance across the heavens. The animated sequence combines 23 pictures taken at approximately 2 week intervals from June 2000 through May 2001. Terrific!
• Other sites that discuss retrograde motion include portions of an Astronomy 161 syllabus. The About Science U also does a fine job in their discussion of planetary motions. Dr. Craig Sean McConnel, assistant professor of Liberal Studies, California State University, discusses Models of Planetary Motion from Antiquity to the Renaissance Finally, La Salle University's Dr. Scott C. Smith discusses retrograde motion in his Introduction to Astronomy course. Amazing Stuff!
• Views of our Solar System Over 800 mb of data and 950 pictures of high resolution imagery.
• Volcanoes on Venus--Venus has more volcanoes than any other planet in our solar system!
  • These volcanoes were mapped using Radar!

Planet Earth & Plate Tectonics

The plate tectonic images and movies come from Dr. Steven Schafersman's excellent Plate Tectonics site. Please visit the site for a much more complete treatment of plate tectonics.

• The earth's crust consists of a mosaic of plates along whose boundaries occur the most interesting geology on earth. Divergent boundaries dominate the sea floor. Oceanic ridges extend over 42,000 miles in the Atlantic, Pacifc and Indian Oceans. This Quicktime movie illustrates some of the important geologic processes common along oceanic ridges.
• At transform boundaries there is no subduction, convergence or divergence--crust is neither created nor destroyed. Rather, the earth's crust moves in opposite directions along a stressed boundary. An excellent example is the San Andreas fault in California. This Quicktime movie illustrates some of the geologic processes present along transform boundaries.
• The earth's crust is very dynamic. Continents have come together and separated at least once in the geologic past. Pangaea is the name given to the most recent supercontinent. Pangea broke up into a northern landmass called Laurasia and a southern supercontinent called Gowndwana. This Quicktime movie illustrates the breakup of Laurasia and Gowndwana into the modern day configuration of continents.

The Moon

• The Moon From the Nine Planets A Must See!
• National Space Science Data Center- LUNAR ExplorationLots of interesting info on the lunar missions. Learn about the Moon Trees!
  • The Moon Home Page! NSSDC
  • Moon Fact Sheet
  • Ice on the Bone Dry Moon!
  • Moonbeams and Elements
• NASA Quicktime Movies The Apollo 11 Launch and Landing FANTASTIC!
  • The Apollo 12 launch. The rocket was struck by lightning!
  • The "The Eagle has Landed" Terrific!

Meteors: What They Are with Focus on the Leonid Meteor Shower

• Quicktime Movies- Three CNN movies on the Leonids. The first is an excellent animation of the "Mechanics of a Meteor Shower" while the second is an actual movie of a few Leonid meteors on 11/17/98. Here is the Leonid 1999 Quicktime from CNN.
• An excellent quicktime animation demonstrating planet Earth's passage through past tracks of Comet Temple Tuttle. What a great Leonid meteor shower on Sunday morning, Nov 18, 2001!
• An excellent movie of comet mass ejection" in it's track around the sun! It's amazing they last as long as they do.
• A CNN Quicktime movie of comet Hale-Bopp with sound, people and discussion!
• How to Plan a Meteor Watch
• The International Meteor Organization
• Terrestrial Impact Craters
• Quicktime Movie- A circular structure, a possible meteor impact crater, was observed on a 3-D seismic dataset from James River, Alberta.The structure has a diameter of 4.8km and a central uplift with a diameter of 2.3km and is about 400m thick. H. Isaac, R. Stewart, and H. Bland developed a Quicktime Movie of the feature!.
• A Fantastic Quicktime Movie of the 1993 Peekshill Meteorite. From NASA's Impact Gallery.

Mars Stuff

• Get the Latest Updates of Pathfinder Info From Mars
  • Atmospheric Pressure
  • Latest Pathfinder Temperatures (Viking Temp Archives too!)
• The 1938 "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast
• Mission to Mars! (A Fantastic Quicktime VR of Pathfinder and other Mars Links)
  • Mars with Water Quicktime VR
  • NASA AMES (Mars virtual landing sites)
• NASA's Mars Exploration Website. Pretty cool place. Check out their latest collection of Martian IMAGES. Terrific!
• A QUICKTIME Mars Timeline Tour." Excellent!
• Weather, climate and life on Mars: Frequently asked questions...answered
• The 1999 Mars Polar Lander Launch Fantastic!
• A new Quicktime movie illustrating the topography of Mars (Blues are lower elevations, reds and whites higher.....)
• Ahh, martian images! A Close-up of a martian Ice Cap ; (2) evidence of water flow on Mars; (3) Amazing dust storm similarities on planets Earth and Mars; (4) typical (as seen on Earth) canyon erosion and (5) large sand dunes. Just to keep you awake and wondering--an image of a person eating breakfast just before the WTC towers collapsed.

US Naval Observatory

US Naval Observatory- Astronomical Applications computes, from fundamental astronomical reference data, the position, brightness, and other observable characteristics of celestial bodies, as well as the circumstances of astronomical phenomena.

• U.S Naval Observatory-Astronomical Applications
  • Sun and Moon Data for One Day
  • Upcoming & Recent Eclipses of the Sun and Moon
  • Sun or Moon Altitude/Azimuth Table for One Day
  • Earth's Seasons, Perihelion and Aphelion 1992-2005
  • Dates of Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday
    • Winter Solstice and Christmas

Quicktime!! Solar System Animations!

• An animation of the processes leading up to the formation of our solar system about 5 billion years ago.
• An amazing animation of A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence. From Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• A NASA Animated Quicktime movie of Alien Solar System Formation
• A comet hurls itself into the dynamic atmosphere of the sun! Note the incredible solar prominences that sometimes extend outward for millions of miles.
• The sun's surface is an active place. Look at these solar storms hurl "sun stuff" into outer space!
• An amazing Quicktime movie of a Florida coastal sunset.
• A CNN Quicktime movie of comet Hale-Bopp with sound, people and discussion!
• An animation of a rotating Venus
• A Quicktime view of planet earth. An interesting comparative view of earth and Venus. Do you notice any differences in rotation direction between the planets? Here, earth's moon moves in front of Venus for a spectacular view.
  • A Quicktime view of the earth's moon.
  • Quicktime: The "Skylab" launch and deployment!
  • A spectacular Quicktime view from space of thunderstorms and lightning over the Mediteranean Sea. France is to the left. (From NASA Space Shuttle Observations)
  • Quicktime Movies A NOAA meteorologist discusses the cause and effect relationships between El Nino and world wide weather. From CNN.
    • In Peru, El Nino often brings flooding rains to areas that are not prepared for them.
    • By products of El Nino often include powerful Pacific storms that generate huge waves along the California coast.
    • Other regions often experience an increase in fires due to drought and purposeful burning.
    • A really nice quicktime movie of the eastern pacific and the transition from the '98 El Nino to La Nina.
  • Quicktime Movies- The Gulf Stream--Notice the eddies spinning off into the atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
• An animation of Mars. I like this one better because it shows the ice covered polar regions.
  • Quicktime: Mars formation, the evolution of life on Mars and the Mars meteorite on earth. The martian fossils resemble the bacteria associated with deep sea vent communities on earth.
  • A spectacular image of huge, extinct Olympus Mons. Now, view an animation of the Olympus Mons crater.
  • A Quicktime discussion and visualization of the polar regions of Mars.
  • The plains of Mars are covered with spectacular extinct volcanoes!
  • While not an animation, this photo shows a cyclonic storm system on the Martian surface!
• A spectacular Quicktime view of Jupiter.
  • May 31, 2001--"During an eclipse of Jupiter's moon Io on January 1, 2001, NASA's Cassini spacecraft recorded glows from auroras and volcanoes on Io." The bright white glows are volcanic eruptions. The blues are probably sulfur dioxide. AMAZING! View the Animated Gif Visit the JPL Press Release for a detailed description.
  • A full planet Quicktime view of the cloud belts of a rotating Jupiter.
  • A quicktime animation of the Galileo Jupiter Probe as it parachutes through the atmosphere of Jupiter.
  • A spectacular close-up Quicktime view of Jupiter's Red Spot showing the details of a very dynamic and complex atmospheric circulation. Here is an amazing close-up of the cloud tops and air motion in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Check out this NASA Quicktime movie of Lightning in the Atmosphere of Jupiter! Absolutely amazing!
  • Galileo, the "King of Night Vision," saw something like this when he looked at Jupiter's "Moon Dance."
  • A Quicktime view of Io. Landmarks of Io have been mapped!
  • In the summer of 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy collided with Jupiter. What a spectacular show! This Quicktime Movie shows one comet fragment impact on the SE limb of Jupiter. Io is on the right side of the movie frames. A NASA Quicktime 1999 closeup of the complex volcanic activity of Prometheus on Io. From CNN. An extreme closeup of glowing hot lava from volcano Pele. Here is an example of a "spacebound plume" from volcano Prometheus. From The Galileo Project
  • The Keck Telescope captures the the spectacular impact of fragment R as it strikes the same location as comet fragments P and Q. For a few minutes, the impact outshines the entire planet! And another Quicktime movie of a shoemaker-levy Fragment H impact. From Chris Heilman's comet impact page.
  • This NASA quicktime animation shows several of the comet fragments approaching and striking a rotating Jupiter.
  • -Quicktime Movies The spectacular "Ice Moon" Europa. The surface of Europa is dynamic and chaotic. The ice surface is continualy melting and refreezing. Ever had a "wedgy?" Well, Europa's surface is a potpourii of shifting ice wedges which probably make Europa one of the most dynamic surfaces in the solar system.
• A Quicktime Fly-By of Saturn, the ringed planet Here is a perspective from Voyager
  • Quicktime: The Rings of Saturn Up Close and Personal
  • Quicktime: The ninth moon of Saturn, Tethys.
  • A NASA animation of a Flight above the terrain of Titan!
  • Ever wonder how a spacecraft gets to Saturn? It's kind of like a "Gravity Slingshot" as shown in this quicktime animation of the Cassini Flight to Saturn.
• A Quicktime movie of Neptune and its amazing giant rotating Storm
• A quicktime movie of the dynamic cloud patterns of Uranus. Because Uranus' axis of rotation is tilted into the ecliptic plane, One pole is heated while the other is put into the deep freeze for decades. (Remember, it's all relative). This results in Uranus' Weather! From the CNN website.

An animated gif of solar system planetary motion in one earth year. From Ed Stephan's Excellent Animation Web Page

Our Sun--Quicktime Movies of Eclipses and Solar Activity

A fantastic GOES 10 satellite loop (animated gif) of the Feb. 26, 1998 Solar Eclipse! (From GOES Hot Stuff.)

Solar physics on the web- This page lists web sites that contain information on the Sun.

The Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland USA.

The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere- NASA presents a detailed survey of 40 yrs of studies and discoveries.

• The Aurora: The Basics, Briefly

Global Warming: Man- or Sun-made?

A Primer on the Space Environment- Our Star, Our Sun (NOAA)

SUN-CENTERED PHYSICS

The Sun as an X-ray source

The Aurora Page:Information, links and images about the "Northern Lights".

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

An Interview with Sol by Robert J. Nemiroff

Solar Physics

The Education and Public Outreach Page of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

Todays Space Weather!! (From NOAA--Check out the Latest Weather on the Sun!)

Sun

The Education and Public Outreach Page of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

Sundials!

There is quite a bit of interest in sundials around the world. So,..I thought I'd start a new Sundial Section!

Sundials on the Internet

Sundial site of Frans Maes

Space Cowboy Weather--Just what is our sun up to?

Check out these WWW sources! These Solar sites will allow you to closely coordinate your telescope observations with day-to-day solar activity. Amazing stuff!

• Space Weather Now
• Today's Space Weather
• Lund Space Weather Center
• Space Weather Links and Resources
• NASA Spacelink Hot Topics
• The Spacewatch Project
• SOHO--THE SOLAR AND HELIOSPHERIC OBSERVATORY
• Space Weather Today
• Rice University--Space Weather Resources
• Welcome to the Aurora Page

Movies of the Sun!

• A Quicktime Movie ~ 2 MB of the Suns Lower Corona-From the Stanford Solar Center. This site presents a collection of fun educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data. A Fantastic SITE!!
• An amazing Quicktime movie of the sun and some spectacular solar prominences! From NASA
• An amazing animation of A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence. From Astronomy Picture of the Day.
• A comet hurls itself into the dynamic atmosphere of the sun! Note the incredible solar prominences that sometimes extend outward for millions of miles.
• The sun's surface is an active place. Look at these solar storms hurl "sun stuff" into outer space!
• Fred's Excellent Eclipse Movie Complete with the OO's and Ah's ~15MB! Quicktime!
• Eclipse MPEG Movie~1.5 MB Oct 24, 1995 by the Japanese Yohkoh ("Sunbeam") Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) covering the period when the path of totality on the earth's surface was sweeping eastward from Myanmar across Thailand and Cambodia.
• Fred Espenak of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center caught this Earth-Based Imagery~925 K Quicktime Movie of the Oct '95 Eclipse in India.
• An amazing Quicktime movie of a Florida coastal sunset.

Supernova & Black Holes

Black Holes--Windows to other worlds?

• The supernova 1987a is shown and discussed in this CNN quicktime movie.
• Supernovae 1987A caused interesting disturbances as its shockwave moved through space. Quicktime movie
• SuperNOVA
  • Super Nova Remnants Astronomy Picture of the Day Archives
• Supernova and Supernova Remnant Pages on the WWW Absolutely Terrific!
  • Statistics on Supernovae discoveries
  • SuperNova Taxonomy
• Distribution of Supernovae according to their parent galaxies' morphological type.International SuperNova Network
• The Crab Nebula was visible to people around the world in 1054 AD when the parent star went supernova. This HST public information quicktime movie is a fantastic animation of the Pulsar "lighthouse" left behind.

Black Holes and Quasars-Quicktime Movies

• A Black Hole Animation at the center of a galaxy (3 MB)
• A Quasar Quicktime (1 MB)
• An Xray binary Quicktime, one possibly a neutron star or a blackhole. Material flows from the normal star to its dense companion. From the High Energy Astrophysics research Center.
  • A quicktime of a pulsing, bursting neutron star.
  • A quicktime of an Xray image of a supernova in m81.
• For an Explanation of Quasars
• Frequently Asked Questions about Quasars (Virginia Tech Dept of Physics)
• "Gas jet and twisted disk and jet around a feeding black hole." From HST Animations
• A view of Galaxy M84. Using the Principle of the Doppler Effect, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to determine the direction of rotation! Additionally, M84 has the telltale signature of a Black Hole as described in this CNN Quicktime movie. From HST Animations
• M87 is thought to have a massive Black Hole at its center. According to a CNN article, this black hole is thought to have a mass of 3 billion suns! This CNN quicktime animation shows black hole jets in motion and streaming from the center of what might be analogous to the huge blackhole at the center of M87.
• The universe is a violent place. Sources of gamma rays are explained in this quicktime movie. Movies from the High Energy Astrophysics Research Center Video Archives.

Our Milky Way and Beyond

The Hubble Deep Field--What else needs to be said!

• Studying a Universe of Extremes (Cosmic Rays, X-Rays, Gamma Rays--Laboratory for High Energy Physics)
• Tutorial An MPEG of the Hertzprung-Russel Diagram From the Electronic Universe Project
• A Virtual Tour of the Milky Way Globular Cluster System
  • More Globular Cluster Info
  • Globular Clusters and the Age of the Universe
• NASA Extragalatic Database (From Objects, Data, and Literature Sources)
• SEDS Internet Headquarters (A wonderful astronomy resource)
  • Messier deep space objects: Nebulae, galaxies, clusters and galaxies
    • Galaxies - Island Universes
    • M31
  • Non-Messier Objects: Wonderful Photos, descriptions & locations of nebulae, clusters and galaxies
  • Star Clusters
  • Comet Impact Image Browser
  • Space Image Archive (From Hubble, Eclipses, to asteroids and much more!)
• Many old stars shed material in the later phases of their life. This HST public information quicktime movie is a terrific animation of the Helix Nebula It is a good example of a Nova. The Helix nebula is visible in your typical backyard telescope.
• The universe is a violent place. Sources of gamma rays are explained in this quicktime movie. Movies from the High Energy Astrophysics Research Center Video Archives.
• The Crab Nebula was visible to people around the world in 1054 AD when the parent star went supernova. This HST public information quicktime movie is a fantastic animation of the Pulsar "lighthouse" left behind.
• Situated just East of the Keyhole Nebula in the Southern Sky, lies the super-luminous eruptive star Eta Carinae. This strange star is is over one million times brighter than our sun and over one hundred times more massive, making it possibly the most massive star in the Galaxy.
• The Egg Nebula is seen from earth and then contrasted with the Hubble Space Telescope. Excellent narration of the death of this central star as it throws elements into outer space is provided in this Quicktime movie from CNN.
• Supernovae 1987A caused interesting disturbances as its shockwave moved through space. Quicktime movie
• Univ of Alabama Messier Picture Gallery (View pictures and discussion of each object)
• Alpha Centauri -A Candidate for Terrestrial Planets And Intelligent Life
  • The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
• Best of the Hubble Space Telescope

  Cepheid Variables-The Yardsticks of the Universe -Quicktime Movies

• A Cepheid Variable from Galaxy M100
• Cepheid Variable Animation (Period vs Brightness)
• A MPEG of the Inverse Square Law of Light (Absolute Magnitude vs Distance)
• Parallax is used to measure the distance of stars relatively close to earth. The illusion of star movement is due to the revolution of the earth around the sun. Two orbital periods are shown here--the second revolution has the star twice the distance. This excellent quicktime animation is from Professor Richard Pogge's Astronomy 162 Resource Page , Ohio State University.

Star Birth and Other Neat Hubble Animations-Quicktime Movies

• The Orion Nebula is a Very Active Stellar Nursery. This NASA quicktime movie discusses and illustrates the amazing density of young stars hidden in the dust clouds of orion.
• Astonishing Images of the Eagle Nebula Regions of Starbirth--Absolutely Fantastic!
  • Check out this amazing Quicktime movie of a close-up of the starbirth regions of M16.
  • The Hubble Deep Field Reveals an Abundance of Galaxies beyond the Big Dipper (2 MB)
  • A Hubble Deep Field Quicktime Movie "Zoom-In" of a HDF image. Unbelievable!
  • What's it the HDF population of galaxies like from a view in the southern hemisphere? It turns out it's just as impressive! The next Quicktime movie (~28mb) goes into exquisite detail of the southern Hubble Deep Field. Thanks!
• The Trifid Nebula is also an active region of Star Birth! Quicktime Movie

Fantastic MPEG Movies From Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures

• Space Telescope Science Institute
• Hubble Space Telescope Greatest Hits
• "Simulation of a merger between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy that may have shaped Centaurus A, dissolving to match to the ground-based image of the galaxy." From HST Animations
• Here is a Galaxy merger in the Antennae Galaxies Quicktime Movie
• A NASA simulation of a Merger between our Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy Quicktime Movie
• "Gas jet and twisted disk and jet around a feeding black hole." From HST Animations
• A view of Galaxy M84. Using the Principle of the Doppler Effect, the Hubble Space Telescope was able to determine the direction of rotation! Additionally, M84 has the telltale signature of a Black Hole as described in this CNN Quicktime movie. From HST Animations
  • A wonderful animation of a binary star system and the resulting complex Doppler Shifts showing motion of the binary system components as they revolve around a common center of mass. From Prof. Richard Pogge's Astronomy 162: Teacher Resources, Ohio State University.

Specific Info on Constellations-Includes stars, messier objects, and mythological background Read Jen and Ricks Writings on Constellations!

An animated gif of celestial motion as observed from the earth. From Ed Stephan's Excellent Animation Web Page

• The Constellations and their Stars Chris Dolan is a grad student working on his Ph.D. in Astronomy at U Wisc-Madison.
• The Constellation Index - Names and Links to all of the major constellations containing Messier Objects
• Constellation frequently Asked QuestionsAnother good source.
• Go-.COM Astronomy Folklore
• The Mythology of the Constellations
• Orion Nebula-Pictures and Biographical Data of M 42
  • Horsehead Nebula (M 43)
  • Star Map of the Constellation Orion
  • The Trapezium
  • Planetary Systems From the Ancient Greeks to Kepler

Aboriginal & Ancient Star Knowledge

Easter Island Mysteries!

• Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, about advanced astronomy in ancient India
• Native American Astronomy ABORIGINAL STAR KNOWLEDGE
• Center for Archaeoastronomy at University of Maryland
• Ancient Astronomy Sites -- a simple overview
• Native American Astronomy Classroom Resources.
• Starlore of Native America
• Maya Astronomy

The Rest of the Astro Links

• SML-Gallery of Recommended Astronomy Sites (Swiss Meteorite Laboratory)
• Astronomy and Earth Science (Newpaper Articles on Astronomy, Culture and Legend--Really Pretty Interesting!)
• Archive: Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
• Astronomy Digest is a Free Monthly On-line magazine with current Astronomy News, Product Reviews, and much more.
• Sky Online (Sky & Telescope Magazine Site)
• Astronomy Magazine Welcome to the World of Astronomy
• Space Environment Center
• Ames Research Center: Research and Development dedicated to the understanding of the origin and evolution of stars, planets and life!
• Todd Gross Astronomy & Weather
• Astronomy & Space on the Internet
• A Potpourri of Astronomy Resources
• Project CLEA (Innovative Astronomy Teaching Resource)
• Yahoo's Astronomy Sites! Check it out!
• University of Toronto DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY
• NASA Home Page
• ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE SCHOOL
• Optical Astronomy An Astroweb database

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