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Useful Links


There is much, much more located at the Astroweb links library.

Research

Journal Resources

NASA ADS

astro-ph

Google Scholar

Data Archives

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

Simbad Astronomical Database

SDSS

HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Archive)

SkyView virtual telescope

VizieR Service

Aladin Sky Atlas

NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA)

JPL Horizons generates positions for solar-system bodies.

Observatories

Remy's Observatories website

Chandra X-ray

XMM-Newton X-ray

Hubble optical

Green Bank radio

Computing

IDL AstroLib

Getting Started with LaTeX

IRAF Help Pages

Observing Conditions

Ricky's Weather Links

Clear Sky Clock in general, and specifically for Charlottesville

Weather Underground in general, and specifically for Charlottesville

SpaceWeather





Education

Reference & Encyclopedias

Wolfram ScienceWorld

Wikipedia Astronomy Portal and Wikiversity's School of Physics and Astronomy

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

HyperPhysics

Simulations

Two videos of Dr Quantum: Flatland and the Double Slit Experiment

Digital Demo Room

Sky Watching

Starry Night virtual planetarium software

Your Sky online virtual planetarium

Sky & Telescope's Java Interactive Sky Chart

Heavens Above for tracking satellites

News & Image Resources

Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA and Science@NASA Headline News

Hubble Heritage

CICLOPS (Cassini Imaging)

Chandra public

Spitzer

NRAO Image Gallery





Just for Fun

News and Not-so News

New York Times

CNN.com

BBC

FARK.com

The Onion

Annals of Improbable Research

Internet Movie Database

Daily Comics

PhD Comics

Two Lumps

Toothpaste for Dinner and Married to the Sea

Cyanide and Happiness

Schlock Mercenary

Games

Text Twist

Sudoku

Fantasy Football

Social

Facebook

MySpace

LiveJournal

Miscellaneous

Improv Everywhere (start with The Moebius)

Peep Research

Zombie Infection Simulation

Popularity of Names

X11 Color options


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