Space and Astronomy ////////////////// Various sites and archives (including NASA archives) Telnet to: sseop.jsc.nasa.gov log in as "photos" ---------- telnet to: ned.ipac.caltech.edu log in as "ned" contains extragalactic photos ---------- telnet to: cfa204.harvard.edu log in as "einline" and follow instructions contains Smithsonian archives/photos ---------- telnet to: stinfo.hq.eso.org log in as "stinfo" the Hubble space telescope place ---------- Astrophysics Book Shelf gopher to: psulias.psu.edu Choose The Electronic Bookshelf then Subject Shelf, then Astronomy and Astrophysics shelf. Bon apetite! ---------- The AstroWeb http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html A virtual warehouse of astronomy related information. Check it out! ---------- NASA FTP info ftp to: dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov Look around. points of interest are the /IMAGES/GIFS directory and other sub-directories for Apollo, astronomy, NASA, the Space Shuttle and many more. ---------- NASA Explorer Site ftp to: explorer.arc.nasa.gov Contains images from NASA space missions. Fantastic graphic site! ---------- NASA Spacelink Database telnet, gopher, ftp or WWW the address is: spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov An unbelievable database of GIFs, JPEGs, scans, info-docs and more! ---------- NASA Launch Site http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html Fantastic NASA page. You gotta see this one! ---------- NASA Review Page http://godric.nosc.mil/planet_earth/nasa.html A glorious overview of all the NASA centers, NASA archives and general information about NASA and NASA related topics and projects. ---------- NASA Project page http://www.nasa.gov Offers access to its many research and ongoing projects and is also a gateway to many other science-related sites. Includes collections of astronomical data and sources and a wide variety of science information. Much of the information is graphically presented which makes it a wonderful visually interesting educational resource. NASA sites are great! ----- NASA site compilation http://www.larc.nasa.gov/nasaonline/nasaonline.html Most NASA sites can be reached via links from this WWW page. I really have not seen a bad NASA page yet so this is a valuable offering and will take the work out of searching for NASA and NASA related links and topics. ----- The American Astronomical Society http://blackhole.aas.org/ The number of quality links here is astronomical and the AAS has put up an excellent web resource for all planetary travelers... Too much to list here but this site is a warehouse of info and pictures. Excellent! ----- Space Telescope Institute Tour http://stsci.edu/top.html A wonderful graphical tour of the Space Telescope Institute complete with pictures of space taken by the telescope. The pictures are continually updated as current photos are being taken. ----- SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) gopher to: seds.lpl.arizona.edu Information about all sorts of celestial events; past, present and future. ----- Views of the Solar System http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~cjhamil/SolarSystem/homepage.html A visual trip as you hop from planet to planet. An excellent site that is well laid out, informative and loaded with fantastic pictures. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Welcome to) The Planets http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/ Another great web page from NASA - the images are quickly downloaded and you'll be cruising at warp speed through the galaxy. A great trek for all. One of the best visual and planetary graphic sites on the web. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarWorlds http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starworlds.html A database of astronomy, space and related information. The list includes info on many astronomy related organizations not yet on the web but still accessible through other means. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Nine Planets http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html http://chandra.astro.indiana.edu/astronomy/nineplanets/nineplanets.html Bill Arnett has written and made available a wonderfully done multimedia virtual tour of our Solar System. This is one of the best "space and astronomy" pages I've ever seen. A great educational resource. This will be enjoyed by all who see it - yes - it's that good. Surf here right now! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarBits http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starbits.html StarBits is a dictionary of more than 80,000 acronyms and abbreviations that are related to astronomy and space sciences. Webster's of the stars! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- StarHeads http://cdsweb.ustrasbg.fr/starheads.html Contains over 1,000 pointers/links to the personal web pages of other scientists and enthusiasts of astronomy and space related fields. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Star*s Family http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/starsfamily.html Includes directories and dictionaries of other "Star" projects (see above) The Star Family of astronomy web projects is under the guidance of: Prof. Andre Heck / Observatoire Astronomique / Strasbourg, France --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mount Wilson Observatory http://www.mtwilson.edu/ The Mount Wilson Observatory is located in the US in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, California. While much of the facility is no longer open to visitors you can go on a virtual tour of the observatory and all its telescopes and facilities via the WWW. You can learn about the 100 inch Hooker Telescope built in 1917 and read about ongoing scientific projects and astronomical findings. You can even have a "virtual" souvenir to take home with you in the form of a personalized galaxy map that you can download (it's a postscript StarGazer map that figures out where you are and creates a star-map with your perspective of the galaxy based on the area of the world your visiting from). The Mount Wilson site has this to say, "Much of the initial understanding of our universe came from data and observations acquired through this facility". There is still a lot to be learned here through the wonderfully done virtual tour via the WWW site. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Ten Hubble 5th Anniversary Images Available http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/BestOfHST95.html or browse directories using: http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/pubinfo - for pictures via FTP: Anonymous FTP to: ftp.stsci.edu: GIF files are in /pubinfo/gif, with extension .gif JPEG files are in /pubinfo/jpeg, with extension .jpg TIFF files are in /pubinfo/tiff, with extension .tif The HST 5th Anniversary Image Collection is available via the Internet in a special Hubble 5th Anniversary Home Page in GIF, JPEG and TIFF formats. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Purdue SEDS Homepage http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~puseds The Purdue Chapter of SEDS (Students For The Exploration and Development of Space) now has a hompage and it is evolving into a great science resource. Here you will find information about SEDS and the Purdue Chapter along with a giant list of Space related sites on the net (100+) and you will also be able to take part in the virtual moonbase project. Check this out! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy Images home page (New images) http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9 Some new infrared images of Jupiter taken by John Spencer and Christopher Duma on April 15, 1995 from the Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) in Hawaii are now available at the JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page. These images are interesting in that they show that the some of the impact dust from Comet SL9's collision from Jupiter from last July has moved north, and some of it is now around the Great Red Spot. Also available is an image projection of the G impact onto the Earth. This image is courtesy of John Spencer and Jacqueline Mitton and was taken from the book "The Great Comet Crash", which will be released this summer by Cambridge University Press. The photos here are absolutely breathtaking. Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earth Viewer http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html Can generate all sorts of image views of the Earth from various positions. Includes maps of the Earth, space images of Earth, views of the Earth that show the various times and day/night regions in real time or in projected time intervals. Also has views from specifically selected points in our solar system such as views of our planet from the Sun, the moon and from Mars. Includes views of Earth sent from the orbiting Hubble Telescope and much more. This is a fascinating and educational page that is a must see! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mars Today http://egg-foo.arc.nasa.gov/HTML/MARS/CD/MarsToday/AboutMarsToday.html A visually remarkable weather information site that is much like the US Weather gopher server except... it's for Mars! This is a global climate model rendered in easy to view displays. Howard Houben, who is a research scientist with the Space Physics Research Institute in California, is to be thanked for the generation of such a project. You have to see this one! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JPL Cyberspace Data Monitoring System http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/cyber.html From the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA (US) comes a new system for monitoring spacecraft such as Magellan and Voyager 2. This graphical panel displays the sub-systems of the spacecraft and shows such things as internal and skin temperatures of spacecraft, power status and more all in any easy to view and understand set of visual control panels. Of course you won't be able to control the craft (shucks) but you can take a peek at the monitor displays that NASA engineers see to monitor the daily progress of sub-systems aboard the spacecraft. Now if they only had a joy-stick... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradford Robotic Telescope http://www.eia.brad.ac.uk/rti/index.html The Bradford Telescope site in England is a very powerful service offered through the WWW. Amateur and professional astronomers along with students and student groups are encouraged to complete an electronic request form detailing and describing what you would like the telescope to observe. The University of Bradford's telescope is very powerful and it has an automated system that can actually tell if the skies are clear enough that night for telescope obervation procedures to continue. Right before dusk the request forms for observations are processed and the telescope is setup for those requested observations - it is an automated system where the requests are sent electronically to the telescope right from the forms-based request page. The next day the completed jobs are returned and users can look at the results and download the images that were gathered by the telescope. This is an interactive telescope and observatory project that will be an ongoing service as long as it is not abused. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------