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• History of Astronomy — the most extensive list, by Wolfgang Dick in Germany.
• History of Science/Science Studies Reference Sources — encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.
• History of Mathematics Archive — at the U. of St. Andrews in Scotland, includes much astronomy and physics, including essays on History Topics.
• Center for History of Physics — extensive site at the American Institute of Physics.
• Calendars — by LeRoy E. Doggett.
• Calendar FAQs
• Archaeoastronomy Web Sources — by David Dearborn.
• Archaeoastronomy, Ancient Astronomy and Ethnoastronomy
• Aboriginal Star Knowledge: Native American Astronomy
• Astronomy in Japan
• Greek Astronomy — part of a museum exhibit.
• Animations of Planetary Models from Ptolemy’s Almagest — by Dennis Duke.
• The Astrolabe
• The Copernican Revolution — outline with links.
• Tycho Brahe
• The Galileo Project — the Copernican Revolution, telescopes, 16th and 17th century astronomers, and more.
• The Art of Renaissance Science: Galileo and Perspective — art, music, and more.
• The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo — an exhibit of rare books and maps
• Exploring the Moon — a timeline of lunar exploration, historic documents, images, and catalogs.
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Out of This World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas
• John Herschel — by N. S. Dodge.
• Albert Einstein
• Einstein Archives Online
• The 1920 Shapley-Curtis "Debate" -the scale of the universe.
• The Bruce Medalists — brief biographies, photos, and bibliographies of leading 19th and 20th century astronomers.
• Cosmology Since 1900 — Outline of discoveries with links to further information.
• The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet — Clyde Tombaugh's account of his discovery of Pluto.
• NASA Historical Subject Reference Guide — includes rocket history, early astronauts, etc.
• A Brief History of High Energy Astronomy — includes dates of missions, and other astronomy-related events.
• The Discovery of Pulsars — first person account by S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
• Biographical Index to Sky & Telescope — a complete index by Kevin Krisciunas.
• Astronomy throughout History- from Windows to the Universe.
• This Month in Astronomy History- important dates and events to remember.
• History of Astronomy- an EXCELLENT list of historical astronomers!

• Centennial of Flight Timeline http://www.centennialofflight.gov/hof/

• Science Museum  http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/flight/flight/history.asp

• Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology  http://www.ueet.nasa.gov/StudentSite/historyofflight.html

• NASA History of Flight http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/timeline.html

• 100 Years of Flight  http://www.100yearsofflight.com/history_intro.html

• Flight Timeline                              http://www.newton.mec.edu/Brown/TE/HOT/TIMELINES/FLIGHT/flight_timeline.html

• PBS: Chasing the Sun  http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/

• History of Ballooning  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/balloon/science/history.html

• Lindbergh Foundation    http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/history/aviation-hist.html

• Space Day    http://www.spaceday.com/conmgmt/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=147&op=page&SubMenu=

General Astronomy                                                                                                                                           

• What time is it? — current time in 538 cities around the world
• AstroViewer — Display a sky map and see what’s up.
• The Constellations — The Munich Archive Astromaps with images, maps, and star descriptions.
• The Constellations — includes mythology as well as astronomy.
• The Constellations — a slightly different version of the myths.
• Monthly Star Maps — from the Science Museum of Virginia. Unlike others, these show the planets.
• Skywatcher's Diary — from Abrams Planetarium.
• This Week’s Sky at a Glance — from Sky & Telescope.
• Sun and Moon rising & setting times, phases, eclipses, seasons, occultations, etc. — from USNO.
• The Phase of the Moon—now or at any time — from USNO.
• Earth Viewer — day and night.
• The Earth at night as seen from space — Pick out your favorite city from its light pollution.
• Solar System Simulator — images, movies, orbits, and more.
• Current and Recent Comets
• Eclipse Home Page — from Fred Espenak at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Virtual Sky — a portal to images of the night sky in many different representations and wavelengths and to great depths.
  Astrophysical Data System — abstracts of articles in technical journals.
• Astroweb: Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Internet
• Science: Astronomy — from Yahoo.
• Astronomical Survey Projects — Links to a great many sky surveys now underway in all wavelength bands.
• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space — gateway to many sources, including the Messier Catalog.
• The Net Advance of Physics: Astronomy and Astrophysics — lecture notes and more at various levels.
• Webstars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace — from HEASARC
• Basics of Radio Astronomy
• Infrared Astronomy — from NASA’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.
• U. S. Geological Survey Astrogeology Research Program — Many maps of Mars and other planets.
• Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide — links to practically all missions, but last updated in 1997.
• SkyView — images of any part of the sky at wavelengths from radio to gamma-ray.
• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) — images, descriptions, and data from x-ray and gamma-ray astronomy satellites.
• The Interstellar Medium — educational site from the University of New Hampshire.
• The James Webb Space Telescope — Plans for the Hubble’s successor are underway.
• The Solar System — JPL site with links to missions. See also The Nine Planets by Bill Arnett and (if you can stand the ads) Views of the Solar System by C.J. Hamilton.
• Space Physics at the National Space Sciences Data Center — links to details of past, present, and future Solar System exploration missions.
• Galileo explored Jupiter and its satellites from 1995 until the mission ended 21 Sept 2003
• The Exploration of the Earth’s Magnetosphere — a non-mathematical but quite detailed overview of space research on the Earth’s environment in space.
• Apollo Lunar Surface Journal — Transcripts, commentary, and spectacular images from when astronauts walked on the Moon. See especially the images from Apollo 17.
• Minor Planets (asteroids) — see also the list by number or by name.
• NEAR Shoemaker satellite orbited asteroid Eros for a year, landed 12 February 2001.
• Asteroid and comet impact hazards
• Was there once life on Mars? — about that meteorite.
• Meteorite Central and Meteorites and Their Properties — two sites on those rocks from out of this world.
• How many satellites does Jupiter (or Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune) have? — the latest information from a member of the University of Hawaii team that has discovered dozens.
• Kuiper Belt Objects — all about those trans-Neptunian objects by David Jewitt, one of the leaders in discovering and interpreting them.
• The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia — all the news about planets orbiting other suns.
• Extrasolar Visions — information about dozens of other solar systems.
• California & Carnegie Planet Search — from the leading American researchers in the field.
• The Search for Extraterrestrial Life — much information and many links, provided by the Planetary Society.
• The Sun
• The Solar Neutrino Problem and Its Solution
• Stars — the star of the week, and of previous weeks, by James Kaler.
• Extragalactic Bookmarks — includes educational links at all levels.
• Cambridge Cosmology — includes animations, brief history of 20th century cosmology.
• Cosmology: A Research Briefing — part of a 1995 National Research Council Report.
• Cosmology Books and Links — from a course at Sonoma State University.
• Stephen Hawking's Universe
• Exploration In Education — from the Space Telescope Science Institute; includes electronic picture books.
  Amateur Astronomy Clubs and Organizations — maintained by the ASP.
• The Antique Telescope Society — Site includes pictures of wonderful old telescopes.
• Deep Sky Astronomy — Observing notes, sketches, and more from Emil Neata in Romania.
• The Stellafane Home Page — the Springfield Telescope Makers.
• Purchasing Amateur Telescopes FAQ — contains good glossary.
• How Telescopes Work — by Craig C. Freudenrich

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