Astronomy
 

NASA web sites

NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/

     Education home page: http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html

     Missions: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/index.html

     Athena Space and Astronomy: http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/space/index.html

     Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
          "APOD Lunation"

Goddard Space Flight Center: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Jet Propulsion Laboratory: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ 

     JPL Missions index:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/missions_index.cfm

     Voyager missions:  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/current/voyager.html

     Extreme Planet Makeover

“ISS EarthKam”:  http://www.earthkam.ucsd.edu/

NOAA's Science on a Sphere (SOS)
          SOS Data Sets

US Naval Observatory

US Naval Observatory: www.usno.navy.mil

     Astronomical Data Online: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

Space Weather

NWS Space Environmental Center: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/
 

“Space Weather”: http://www.spaceweather.com/

EPA

US EPA Sunwise Program (Dangers of UV exposure) http://www.epa.gov/sunwise/

Organizations and Museums

“Windows to the Universe”: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

"Bad Astronomy": http://www.badastronomy.com/

AMNH “Astronomy – Our Place in Space”: http://ology.amnh.org/astronomy/index.htm

“Astronomy for Kids”: http://library.thinkquest.org/3645/page2.html

"Astronomy Images by Thierry Legault": http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/

"Beyond the Solar System": http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/btss/
 

CERES (Center for Educational Resources), Montana State University: http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/default.htm

    "Star Life Cycles": http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/html/LifeCycle/stars1.html

"Cosmic Distance Scales" http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/

"Cosmic Questions Educator’s Guide"
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/download/CQEdGuide.pdf

"Deep Astronomy": http://deepastronomy.com/hubble-deep-field.html

“Educator’s Reference Desk: Astronomy”: http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Science/Astronomy

"Heaven's Above": http://www.heavens-above.com/

Journey North "Changing Sunlight": http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/pde/Sunlight_Nov08.html

National Health Museum Earth and Space Web Sites: http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/earthspace.html

National Optical Astronomy Observatory: http://www.noao.edu/outreach/tlrbse/

Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project

"Lawrence Hall of Science 'Uncle Al's Sky Wheels" http://www.lhs.berkeley.edu/starclock/skywheel.html

Moon Phases game: http://www.sporcle.com/games/moonphases.php

Sandburg Center for Sky Awareness "Hyatt Regency Jersey City Sundial": http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/exo/sundials/nj/jersey_city/

"Size of Our World":

"Solar Eclipse Maps" http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/when_usa.html

"Solar System Live": http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar 

"Unmanned Space Flight": http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/

“University of Leicester Educational Guide to Space and Astronomy”: http://www.star.le.ac.uk/edu/Index.shtml

"University of Nebraska Astronomy Education": http://astro.unl.edu/

Universities Space Research Association: http://www.usra.edu/

Wikisky: http://www.wikisky.org/

Animations and Activities

"Spectral Lines" activity: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/quantumzone/

"Simulations and Animations": http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/a311/Sim.html

“Astronomy Lessons”: http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/astronomy.html

"The Big and Little Dippers": http://www.astropix.com/HTML/C_SPRING/URSAS.HTM
The Clock of All Time": http://www.alltime.info/atclocknew.htm

"Follow the Drinking Gourd" http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/planetarium/ftdg2.htm

"Google Moon" http://moon.google.com/

"Powers of Ten" http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html
"Earth Impact database" http://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/CIDiameterSort.html

"The Sun's Path": http://solar.anu.edu.au/Sun/SunPath/index.html

"Moon Phases": http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/JAVA/moonphase.html

"Build a Solar System Model": http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/index.html

"Online Planetarium": http://www.neave.com/lab/planetarium/

"Voyage: A Journey through Our Solar System": http://www.voyagesolarsystem.org/

"Planet 10: An Interactive Model": http://solarsystem.org.uk/planet10/

"Hubble Images from China View": http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/18/content_5501941.htm