- The Cosmic Perspective, the
web site for the Bennett et al. textbook.
- One Universe, a
website with the full text of an excellent intro astronomy text, plus exercises and
other supplementary material.
-
Physical and astronomical constants
-
Astronomy HyperText Book , which includes links to course
notes of some relevance to our course.
- Astronomy
Picture of the Day and its archive;
loaded with beautiful pictures.
- Astronomical Image
Library. You can find pictures of essentially any
astronomical source here.
- Also don't forget Google's image
finder.
-
Comprehensive list of astronomy links sorted by category.
- Home page of the Space
Telescope Science Institute. Look here for all kinds of nifty
things related to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Hubble's official online science web
site.
- Introduction to
Cosmology, part of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe Education and Outreach
program, developed largely here at Princeton.
-
New Wright's Cosmology Tutorial. An excellent beginner's resource.
- The Encyclopedia of Astronomy and
Astrophysics, online.
-
Gene Smith's astronomy tutorial. Quite a bit of depth here.
-
John Baez's Physics FAQ (for the more ambitious).
NASA and related sites (mostly emphasis on planetary astronomy):
- NASA's home page
- The
Planets Home page. A great place to start for armchair
exploration of the solar system! Does not have much in the way
of links to external resources.
-
The Nine Planets: A multimedia tour of the solar system.
- NASA's Solar System
photo album,, full of great pictures.
- Map-A-Planet, from the
US Geological Survey.
- Astrophysics
in Cyberspace Lots
of stuff about Mars, extrasolar planets, all kinds of goodies.
- The Mars Global
Surveyor Home Page
- The Mars Odyssey
Home Page
- The Mars Spirit and Opportunity Home
Page
- Galileo's mission to
Jupiter
- Martian Meteorites
and the search for life.
- Terrestrial
Planet Finder (TPF), a proposed NASA mission.
- Princeton's involvement in
TPF.
- NASA's Astrobiology
site.
- The Kepler Mission to
find planets around other stars by their shadow effect
- The Virtual Planetary
Laboratory.
- Skyview; a virtual telescope
- Searching
for Extra-Solar Planets, from Geoff Marcy's group at Berkeley.
- The extrasolar planet encyclopedia
- The home page of The Planetary Society.
- Astrobiology: The Living
Universe, a fantastic website put together by high-school students (!),
with about 400 pages of useful information.
- An astonishing
image of the Earth at night. See also here for information on
the problem of light pollution.
Out in left field/for fun:
- James Randi, professional
skeptic
- The Skeptical
Inquirer, a journal devoted to debunking.
-
Phil Plait's discussion of bad astronomy in the media and in general.
- Space songs
for kids.
- Monte
Python on our place in the Universe.
- DOOFAAS (Dumb Or Overly Forced Astronomical Acronyms Site)
- Dark
Matter Rap, by David Weinberg (Princeton PhD, 1989).
- Astrobiology
rap.
Web sites of useful journals:
- Sky and
Telescope. An excellent source of astronomical news, and
articles on subjects relevant to the course.
- Scientific
American. Also full of relevant articles.
- Science
News. Their articles are short, and very up-to-date.
Michael Strauss
Please let me know if
there are other relevant links I should put here.