astronomy observation log

Web Address Description / Title

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/Home.aspx virtual telescope

http://www.nasa.gov/ multimedia information about space exploration

http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/ project to map the universe

http://astrosociety.org/education/resources/educsites.html website listing for astronomy instructors

http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/GC/index.php black holes

http://www.astrosociety.org/ Astronomical Society of the Pacific

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/video/ video explanations of common astronomy questions

http://science.nasa.gov/ multimedia science news

http://161.58.115.79/education/podcast/ Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture podcasts

http://www.astronomycenter.org/index.cfm? teaching and learning resources for undergraduate Introductory

Astronomy courses

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system.swf simulation of solar system

http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html Mayan astronomy

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/ Mars exploration program

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ exploration and development in space

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/ multimedia astronomy resources

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ Space Science and Engineering Center, media

http://hubblesite.org/ universe through eye of Hubble telescope, multimedia

http://www.astronomy2009.org/ International Year of Astronomy 2009

http://nasaimages.org/ collection of images from NASA

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/ NASA mulitmedia plus live video and audio

http://stellarium.org/ free, open-source planetarium for computers

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ astronomy picture of the day from NASA

http://www.tinyurl.com/galileo-pisa Galileo's "falling bodies" experiment re-created at Pisa

http://stellarium.org/ computer-based planetarium in 3D

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/class/applets/NewtonsCannon/newtmtn.html orbital motion simulation

http://www.compadre.org/portal/index.cfm? digital resources for physics and astronomy

http://physicsworld.com/cws/home physics, astronomy news

http://www.the-nucleus.org/index.cfm? learning, research resources for physics and astronomy

undergrads

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program_d.html PBS Nova videos of The Elegant Universe

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Perimeter_Explorations/General/Perimeter_Explorations/ dark matter

http://www.sixtysymbols.com/ videos about the symobls of physics and astronomy

http://www.einstein-online.info/en/

web portal with information about Albert Einstein's theories of

relativity and applications, from the smallest particles to black

holes and cosmology

http://www.pbs.org/seeinginthedark/ PBS site on astronomy information

http://www.sciencenews.org/ news of science and the public

http://discovermagazine.com/ science, technology and the future

http://www.space.com/ space news

Astronomy Information Websites

http://www.astronomy.com/ astronomy news