Other links

General Interest

Bad Astronomy
(http://www.badastronomy.com)

Color images of Messier objects
(http://www.3towers.com)

Numerical Simulations and movies
(http://www.astro.washington.edu)

The Great Debate – background information on the 1920 Shapley/Curtis debate
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html)

Freedmann & Kaufmann, Universe (6th ed) textbook web pages
(http://www.whfreeman.com/universe6e)

Astronomy Picture of the Day
(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/)

Earth and Moon viewer
(http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/vplanet.html)

Heavens-Above, Perth City Center (Bright satellite visibility predictions)
(http://www.heavens-above.com)

J-Track 3D (Java model of the earth showing real-time satellite positions)
(http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov)

Astronomy Notes (Online Astronomy course)
(http://www.astronomynotes.com)

Hubble Deep Field clickable image-map
(http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~cowie/tts/tts.html)

Comet Hale Bopp page
(http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/)

Illustration of Beta Decay
(http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/isotopes/radioactive_decay.html)

Mars Society of Australia (MSA)
(http://www.marssociety.org.au)
The Mars Society’s website has a range of information and links about everything; you guessed it, the red planet – Mars. The main focus of the Mars Society is the exploration of Mars, and how the public can get involved in it.

The Starchaser Marsupial Rover
(http://www.marsupial.org.au)
This website provides all the information you might want about the Starchaser Marsupial rover: an experimental vehicle investigating design and operational concepts for future human Mars surface exploration.

Extra-solar planets and SETI

JPL’s Planetquest site
(http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov)

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia
(http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html)

The SETI Institute
(http://www.seti.org)

The SETI @ Home project
(http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu)
Take part in a SETI search using your home computer.

Solar System

NASA’s Solar System information pages
(http://sse.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm)

US National Air and Space Museum Solar System information
(http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/)

Ephemeris Generator
(http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi)

Geoscience Australia Astronomical information
(http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/)

Multimedia Tour of the Nine Eight Planets
(http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/)

An overview of the Solar System
(http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/overview.html)

Sahara Meteorite Prospecting
(http://www.saharamet.com/index.html)

JPL orbit simulator for hazardous asteroids
(http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/)

Send an asteroid or comet hurtling toward your favorite planet!
(http://janus.astro.umd.edu/astro/impact/)

Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts
(http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd7.html)

Environmental Damage from Asteroid and Comet Impacts
(http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/climate.htm)

Physics

The Particle Adventure
(http://particleadventure.org/index.html)
Particles and forces in the Standard Model.

Physics Central (APS public page)
(http://www.physicscentral.com)

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
(http://www.aapt.org)

The Discovery Channel
(http://www.discovery.com)

Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP)
(http://www.cpepweb.org)

Fusion Web Course (CPEP)
(http://fusedweb.llnl.gov/CPEP/)

Quarks Unbound
(http://units.aps.org/units/dpf/quarks_unbound/index.html)

Exploratorium – The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception
(http://www.exploratorium.edu/index.html)

HyperPhysics
(http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html)

Journals and Papers

NASA Astrophysics Data System
(http://adsabs.harvard.edu)

The Astrophysical Journal Electronic Edition
(http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/)

Astrophysics preprints (astro-ph)
(http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/astro-ph)

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
(http://www.publish.csiro.au/journals/pasa/)

Surveys and Databases

The Infrared Sky (and more) in VR
(http://homepage.mac.com/rarendt/dirbe_qtvr/b123.html)

SkyView Virtual Observatory
(http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Padova-Asiago Supernova Group Home Page
(http://web.pd.astro.it/supern)

NASA Extragalactic Database
(http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu)

Simbad Astronomical Database
(http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad)