ASTRONOMY AND PHYSICS RESOURCES




See also Traister's nuclear science and nuclear weaponry resources.

Click here for NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.


Resources in the present category include:

  1. Yahoo's astronomy links

  2. Astronomy Resources on the Internet

  3. Philip R. "Pib" Burns' astronomy links

  4. Robert Lentz's Astronomy Resources

  5. Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site

  6. Que Tal in the Current Skies

  7. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  8. HubbleSite

  9. Kitt Peak National Observatory

  10. Planetary tour guide

  11. The Observatorium

  12. Thierry Legault's high-resolution astronomical photographs

  13. Views of the Solar System

  14. Welcome to the Planets

  15. The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour

  16. Solar System Live


  17. Earthview

  18. SETI Institute (information about the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

  19. Penn Library links to national laboratories, including

    1. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

    2. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

    3. Mars Exploration Program

    4. NASA's Liftoff to Space Exploration (Mission Operations Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center)

    5. NASA's National Space Science Data Center

    6. Fermilab

    7. NASA's History of Space Exploration page

  20. National Air & Space Museum

  21. CNRS (France)

  22. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (University of Arizona)

  23. Henrietta Leavitt Flat Screen Space Theater


  24. Comet Hale-Bopp

  25. Die Wetterseite der Uni[versität] Stuttgart (a German-language site; it offers much more than weather)

  26. Human Radiation Experiments (Department of Energy)

  27. Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX)

  28. Sky and Telescope Magazine

  29. American Astronomical Society


  30. the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Exploration newsletter

  31. Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy

  32. History of Astronomy

  33. Galileo Project

  34. The Noble Dane: Images of Tycho Brahe (an exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford)

  35. Out of this World: The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas (Linda Hall Library exhibition catalog); and The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo: An Exhibit of Rare Books (another)

  36. "The Great Magnet, the Earth: Commemorating the 400th anniversary of "De Magnete" by William Gilbert of Colchester" (from David Stern, at NASA)

  37. The Art of Renaissance Science

  38. Air&Space Magazine (Smithsonian Institution)



    A site of interest to aficionados of the history and philosophy of science, or or hoaxes, or of self-righteousness (in long supply here, and on all sides), is Alan Sokal's. A professor of physics at NYU, Sokal is best known for his hoax of postmodern theories about science in Social Text. Here he gathers what he gauges to be the relevant articles, including not only his own but also some of the reactions to his article.


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