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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.- ad.usno.navy.mil/ |
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Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology: Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.- csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/ |
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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- www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml |
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Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours: Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.- www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html |
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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.- www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/royal_society/alpha/alpha.html |
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ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images: Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.- www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/ |
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Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas: A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.- www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html |
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How Stuff Works: Stars: Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.- www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm |
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Laser Star Astrophysics: Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.- members.rogers.com/laserstars/ |
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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.- www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/ |
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Measuring the Stars: In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.- www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm |
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Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets: Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.- www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 |
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Solar and Stellar Seismology: Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition.- www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/seismology/seismology.html |
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Space Telescope Science Institute: A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.- oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html |
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Spectra and Spectra Analysis: Stars: Includes a section on spectral classification of stars.- astrofili.org/members/osservareilcielo/spetring.htm |
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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).- www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm |
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Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com: Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...- www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html |
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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.- www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html |
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Summer Sky Tour: A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.- my.execpc.com/60/B3/culp/astronomy/ |
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The Classification of Stellar Spectra: NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars.- lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/allen/spectral_classification.html |
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The Constellations since 1996: Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.- www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm |
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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.- www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html |
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University of Vaasa - Star photos: Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.- garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifstar.html |