General Astronomy

BASICS OF AMATEUR ASTRONOMY

• Home Science Backyard Astronomy
• Nightwatch: A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe
  ONLINE

• Google Sky – pretty pictures, easy
• NASA/JPL Ephemeris Site (very complete, but quite technical)
• Microsoft WorldWide Telescope (web client is unusably slow from my 2008 Mac Mini)

CURRENT EVENTS

• http://earthsky.org/tonight
• Amazing Space

GENERAL ASTRONOMY

• News
  • Universe Today
  • Science at NASA
• Space Exploration
  • Canadian Space Agency
  • Space Elevators
  • Canadian Space Society
• Online Courses
  • Hong Kong University (in English)
• The Sun
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory
  • Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
  • Royal Greenwich Observatory Solar Storm Watch
  • http://www.solarcycle24.com/
• The Solar System
  • nineplanets.org
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth and Moon
    • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
    • New Atlas of the Moon (Review)
    • Earth from Space (NASA)
  • Mars, Phobos, Deimos
    • HiRise Mars Images
    • Rovers
    • Mars Express
    • Phobos Flybys
  • Jupiter and moons
  • Saturn and moons
    • Cassini Solstice Mission
  • Uranus, Neptune and moons
  • Other (asteroids, dwarf planets, comets, etc.)
• Stars
  • Nearby Stars
  • Variable Stars
  • Exotics (neutron stars, etc.)
• Exoplanets (planets around other stars)
• Nebulae and Dust
• Galaxies
• Cosmology
• Cataclysmic Events
  • Novae and Supernovae
  • Gamma Ray Bursters
  • Other Cataclysms