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Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/

Astronomy Digital Image Library

Comet Hale-Bopp Homepage

Galileo Jupiter Probe

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Live from Mars

Mars Global Surveyor / Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery

Mars Pathfinder

Martian Weather Report

MIT Radio Astronomy

NASA Shuttle Web

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy (including misconceptions, TV shows and more)
http://www.badastronomy.com/

Planetary Data System:  Welcome to the Planets

Solar Eclipse Bulletin

Stanford SOLAR Center
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/resources.html

TerraServer   (satellite photos of Earth)

TPS: The Planetary Society

Views of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/

Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows.ucar.edu
    

LECTURES (online)

David Dunn, U.C. Berkeley
Astronomy 10, Summer 2002, Online Lecture Notes
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~ddunn/classes/berk02a/teaching02a.html

Nick Strobel, Bakersfield College (Community College)
Online Lecture Notes
http://www.astronomynotes.com/

Steve Daunt, University of Tennessee
Astronomy 161+162 Online Lecture Notes
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/

MAGAZINES

Astronomy Magazine (magazine)
http://www.astronomy.com

Scientific American (magazine)
http://www.sciam.com/

Sky and Telescope (magazine)
http://skyandtelescope.com/

MULTICULTURAL ASTRONOMY & MYTHOLOGY

Multicultural Mythology
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/mythology.html

Solar Folklore
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/folklore.html

Stanford SOLAR Center (including multicultural astronomy sources)
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/resources.html

OBSERVATORIES & SPACE STATIONS

Big Bear Solar Observatory

Chabot Space & Science Center (in the Oakland Hills)
http://www.chabotspace.org/

International Space Station

Lawrence Hall of Science:  Planetarium (also: Saturday Night Stargazing, Berkeley)
http://lhs.berkeley.edu/planetarium/

SkyView: The Internet's Virtual Telescope (NASA)

Space Telescope Science Institute (including Hubble pictures)
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/

TEXTBOOKS

Chaisson and McMillan, Astronomy: Beginner's Guide (3/e) and Astronomy Today (4/e)
http://www.prenhall.com/chaisson/

Pasachoff and Filippenko, The Cosmos: Astronomy in the New Millennium

PHYSICS

History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

IUPAP Conference: Women on Physics
http://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa/conference.html

Lecture Demonstrations: Brown University Department of Physics

Little Shop of Physics: Online Experiments (Colorado State University)

NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainty

Optics Link

Physics Internet Resources

PhysicsWorld

Science Animations: Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links [Macromedia Flash Player, Shock Wave]

Virtual Mass Spectrometry Lab (Carnegie-Mellon & University of Pittsburgh)

    

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