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Cosmobrain Astronomy and Astrophysics
Helpful index of links relating to many different aspects of Astronomy.
http://www.cosmobrain.com/
The Fifty Brightest Stars
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications.
http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/b...
Laser Star Astrophysics
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.
http://laserstars.org/
Measuring the Stars
In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
http://www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/l...
How Stuff Works: Stars
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Stars and Galaxies
Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.
http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
Thinkquest: A Mystery of Space: Stars
Learn about the universe, especially stars. There are two versions of the site to choose from, one for younger kids (under 12), and one for older kids (13 and over).
http://library.thinkquest.org/25763/
Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory
The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.
http://ad.usno.navy.mil/
Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/gmackie...
Bright Star Catalogue
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
The Constellations since 1996
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
Spectra and Spectra Analysis: Stars
Includes a section on spectral classification of stars.
http://astrofili.org/members/osservareilci...
Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,...
White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, And Black Holes
All-text page on the various stages in the discovery and development of theories of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
http://www.geocities.com/tonylance/dwarf.h...
Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets
Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID...
Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constella...
Space Telescope Science Institute
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.h...
Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors
Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI...
BBC Space - Stars
Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/i...
Summer Sky Tour
A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.
http://my.execpc.com/60/B3/culp/astronomy/
SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip!
SpaceWander's award-winning multimedia tour of the Universe features real space pictures from NASA
http://www.spacewander.com
The Classification of Stellar Spectra
NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/people/pacro...
Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com
Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features...
Star Data Pages
Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
Star Maps
Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.
http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html
Solar and Stellar Seismology
Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition.
http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/Level01...
ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images
Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
The Formation of Binary Stars
Recent observational investigations of the frequency of occurrence of pre-main-sequence binary stars have reinforced earlier suspicions that binary formation is the primary branch of the star-formation process
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.fin...
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