It was long ago when the last enlightening episode of COSMOS ended. I still remember. We headed outside as the screen faded and the credits began scrolling on the television. Carl Sagan, host, producer....
It was a crystal clear night so we laid on our backs in the yard. We pointed, and in silence, we pondered.
That was more than 25 years ago when PBS ran the original 13 part series, COSMOS; A Personal Voyage. We know much more about the stars now than we did back then, but there's still an endless number of questions to answer. What's really out there? Why?
For me, it's not a question of "if," but when we'll make contact. I got my telescope. How about you? Who knows, maybe we'll be the first to see them coming.
Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - NASA
Contents at a Glance
Links
- Astronomy Net
- Resources, searchable forums and searchable lists of organizations providing astronomy services.
- An Atlas of the Universe
- Contains 3D maps of the universe zooming out from the nearest stars to the scale of the galaxy and out to the surrounding superclusters and finally to the scale of the known universe.
- Astronomy Campfire Chat
- Forum and chat for discussing astronomy.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
- A web encyclopedia. Over 500 entries, ranging from definitions to full articles.
- AstroWeb
- Astronomical Internet resources by the Space Telescope Science Institute.
- Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List
- List of links for those, who want to examine theories that are on the fringe of accepted scientific thought that are related connected to astronomy. A few examples are astrology, UFO's, the "Face" on Mars, and ancient astronaut theory.
- Australia Astro Site
- Extensive resources for astronomy.
- Astronomical Optical Interferometry
- The use of multiple telescopes to produce high resolution images - commonly used at most modern observatories. A literature review article.
- Absolute Astronomy
- Facts and statistical information about planets, moons, constellations, stars, galaxies, and Messier objects.
- Space.com - The Greatest Myths, Hoaxes & Mysteries in Astronomy and Space Science
- Article briefly discussing 21 topics.
- Astronomy Today
- Information and articles on astronomy, space and related topics. Also features a friendly forum and a telescope buyer's FAQ page.
- Astronomy Education and Outreach
- General astronomy tutorial, education links, web courses, documents at the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.
- Astronomy Facts and Trivia
- Fun facts and trivia relating to astronomy, space, science fiction movies. Most trivia items are submitted by users.
- Logarithmic Maps of the Universe
- Show universe in terms of distance from Earth center. Includes such things as satellites, planets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies, out to cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang.
- The Naming of Stars
- Leaflet from Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- Infrared Astronomy
- All about infrared astronomy from NASA's infrared astronomy center: Discovery of infrared, what is infrared and infrared astronomy, history, the infrared universe, gallery, activities, discoveries, missions and a lot of links to IR astronomy sites.
- Astronomy for All
- Index with graphics and illustrations about stars, the Solar System, cosmology and Galileo.
- Beyond Earth - Everything Not on Earth
- Provides information about the beginning of universe and solar system. About the planets, quasars, the Milky Way, black holes. Life of a star. Travel in space and extra terrestrial beings.
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