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- Cool NASA photos with a new photo every day along with a professional description and explanation.
- The NASA Observatorium. All
your NASA favorites are here. Earth and space images. The space shuttle. Planets. Comets.
Black holes. Eclipses. And much, much more.
See satellite pictures of earthly locations Around the World at 100-Plus Scenes.
The latest and greatest images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
More from the Hubble Heritage Project, including a chance to request objects to be included in the Hubble research.
Mars Pathfinder Mission The first robotic mission to Mars in 20 years, with more every two years.
Learn about Jupiter from Project Galileo. This spacecraft explored Jupiter for several years. Now it is on an extended mission to map the icy moon Europa. Lots of close-up photos of Jupiter and its moons. - Martian Time is similar, yet very different from Earth time.
- The 25 brightest stars in the sky.
Sloan Digiital Sky Survey (SDSS) has some amazing photos.- Digitized Sky Survey offers digital star images, photometry and more.
- Weekly Stargazing Tips from StarDate Online.
- Sky and Telescope magazine online.
- National Weather Service maps and current information including watches and warnings.
- Watch global storms and hurricanes with NOAA's Geostationary Satellite Server.
- Regional Weather:
Current Springfield weather report.
Springfield, Missouri area weather radar.
Current weather satellite view of the midwest. - GSOC Satellite Visibility page will help you keep track of the Mir Space Station and over 100 Iridium satellites. This site will also update you on sun and moon positions. Unless you live in or near Springfield, Mo, be sure to change the coordinates to your locale. This will show you where to watch as the satellites flash through the sky brighter than most of the stars for a few seconds.
- Set your clock accurately with Computer Time Services.
- Major helps for the astronomer at Skyview Virtual Observatory .
- Get to
know the sky better with Constellations.
- Stardial has daily(nightly) images
from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign - Discover The Universe is the largest, most comprehensive listing of pages from the solar system to galaxies and everything in between. A MUST SEE!
- Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
home page
SEDS Messier database
SEDS takes you on a tour of our Solar System - North American meteor showers calendar and information with several additional links
- Comet Hyakutake from Kitt Peak National Observatory This was the closest approach to earth of a comet in 20 years. These are images taken in 1996 at Kitt Peak National Observatory.
- Lots of astronomy resource links from AstroWeb. A comprehensive page with hundreds of links. This site includes a search engine.
- Welcome to the Planets A site similar to "The Nine Planets" from NASA.
- Wanting to buy a telescope or a new accessory? Telescope City has lots of stuff from which to choose.
- It's too late to get a ride, but you can still learn about the Stardust comet trip.
- Many more useful links at WebStars Astrophysics in Cyberspace.
- Yahoo Astronomy Search Engine The Yahoo Search service for everything astronomy.
Ok, so it's not astronomy, but it's funny and if you actually read this whole list you deserve a good laugh.
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