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Space and Astronomy
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Various sites and archives (including NASA archives)

Telnet to:
sseop.jsc.nasa.gov
log in as "photos"
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telnet to:
ned.ipac.caltech.edu
log in as "ned"
contains extragalactic photos
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telnet to:
cfa204.harvard.edu
log in as "einline" and follow instructions
contains Smithsonian archives/photos
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telnet to:
stinfo.hq.eso.org
log in as "stinfo"
the Hubble space telescope place
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Astrophysics Book Shelf
gopher to: psulias.psu.edu
Choose The Electronic Bookshelf then Subject Shelf, then Astronomy and
Astrophysics shelf. Bon apetite!
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The AstroWeb
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html

A virtual warehouse of astronomy related information. Check it out!
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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.
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NASA Explorer Site
ftp to: explorer.arc.nasa.gov

Contains images from NASA space missions. Fantastic graphic site!
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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!
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NASA Launch Site
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/hqpao/hqpao_home.html

Fantastic NASA page. You gotta see this one!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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...
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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.
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