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(Oct 31, 2006) NASA announced plans for a fifth servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, which is tentatively targeted for launch between spring and fall of 2008. (Aug 29, 2005) Hubble deorbit module deleted Hubble Space Telescope Search: The Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute has moved their news photo gallery to HubbleSite.org, while still maintaining another image archive at Hubble Heritage. HubbleSite Gallery Hubble Heritage Gallery Recent Hubble News & Images You can search HubbleSite.org with their own engine from here, or search either HubbleSite OR Hubble Heritage via Google with the 2nd form below. Be specific; you will get many results. Google search for Hubble Space Telescope images & info: Astronomy Search: AstroWeb is a directory of about 3000 astronomy links, regularly updated and maintained at the University of Strasbourg, in France. The Astronomy Picture of the Day, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. AAO Astronomical Images Anglo-Australian Observatory ESO Astronomical Images European Southern Observatory OSU Astronomical Images Ohio State University Views of the Solar System are photos with good text descriptions by Calvin J. Hamilton, describing the celestial bodies and environments making up our Solar System, including data on the sun, planets, asteroids, meteorites, comets, Oort Cloud, and Kuiper Belt. NASA Planetary Photojournal compiles images of the planets from NASA spacecraft. NASA Space Observatorium has images from and info on NASA's planetary, deep space exploration, and astronomy programs. The NCSA Astronomical Image Library has 4000 images, searchable by sky position, name, wavelength, or bibliographic reference, including VRML, movies, and animations. NASA GSFC SkyView is a virtual observatory that generates images of any part of the sky at wavelengths ranging from radio to gamma rays. Like TerraServer pointed up instead of down, only moreso. The NASA JPL Solar System Simulator allows you to view perspective images to and from 32 planets and moons from any virtual point in the solar system. Sky View Café is a free Java applet that lets you use your web browser to see many types of astronomical information, in both graphical and numerical form. You can see which stars and planets will be visible tonight, how the next eclipse will look, or when the Moon rose ten years ago (from any point on the globe), and more. SkyQuery is an online database searching application for serious astronomers. SkyQuery furnishes information about astronomical objects by drawing on 3 databases, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the the 2MASS project, and the First Radio Survey. SkyQuery is a good demo of how typical applications in the National Virtual Observatory will look. The website of Sky and Telescope has news, sky events info, tips articles for backyard astronomy and imaging, product review articles, downloads, and more. The Astronomy Magazine website includes news, this month's "sky show", downloadable .pdf articles for beginners, software downloads, and several articles from back issues. Imagine the Universe, from the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is an educational site with tutorials and lesson plans on all aspects of astronomy. Astronomy Workshop is an online astronomy lab, with information for beginners, and java applets to show orbital paths, impact results, etc. The NASA Astrophysics Data System at Harvard is a bibliographical reference database of over 1.5 million astronomy and physics papers, with links to data and citations. Amateur Telescope Making is a collection of unique tricks, hints, and information about other people's scopes and ideas, intended as a resource for both beginning and advanced amateur telescope makers. Beginners should also take a look at the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston or Mark's Notes for the Amateur Telescope Maker; veterans should check out the ATM (newsgroup) Archives. Earth's Magnetosphere is a non-mathematical tutorial about Earth's space environment of charged particles, with good information for all levels from high school to PhD.'s. The SETI Institute says they are "to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe." While they are at it, they might Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. "Out of this World" is an online exhibit of 43 Historic Celestial Atlases from 1482 to 1851, including Johann Bayer's Uranometrica of 1603, from the Linda Hall library in Kansas City, Mo. Astronomy Search: The DMOZ Open Directory searches for keywords in website titles and descriptions (not page content). You can limit your search to subcategories like Galaxies, Stars, Astrophysics, or Cosmology, or search all Astronomy or Science links. |
See also: QuickShop: Science Gifts Black Holes, Asteroids-Meteoroids, Planets, Mars, and Space Astronomy NewsStarry Night From the youngest future astronaut to serious amateur observer or astro-photographer, Starry Night has a program that will keep you actively engaged like no other software can. If you want a full-color photograph of the entire next sky from any place on earth, the best observational tools and data, Starry Night Pro Plus is unbeatable. For kids with eyes only for the sky, Constellation Adventure has all the tools a young explorer needs to enjoy the interest outdoors and indoors. The Starry Night store also carries other astronomy software, astronomy DVDs and gifts. Astronomy Freeware: Sky Chart 14.31 MB Celestia 3-D sim 12 MB Virtual Moon Atlas 13.6 MB Open Galaxy to mag 14, 53 MB Alpha Centaure planetarium 8.58 MB C2A planetarium 9.54 MB More Astronomy Freeware
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