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Hubble Space Telescope

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/


2MASS Messier Catalog Gallery
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/messiercat.html


Astrophysical Data System (NASA ADS)
http://adswww.harvard.edu/


Anglo-Australian Observatory Astronomical Images
http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html/


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


Galaxy Cluster Mug Shots
http://www.astr.ua.edu/white/mug/cluster/clusters.html


NOAO Image Gallery
http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/


Planetary Photojournal NASA
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/


SDSS Art shots
http://www.sdss.org/data/artclick/artframe.htm


SDSS Image Gallery
http://www.sdss.org/gallery/index.html


UA Astronomical Image Galleries
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/choosepic.html


VLT Astronomical Images - Index
http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/ut1fl/astroimages.html



Observatories/Missions


Anglo-Australian Observatory
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/


Carnegie Observatories
http://www.ociw.edu/


CFHT
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/


Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
http://chandra.harvard.edu/


CTIO
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/


CWRU Astronomy Department
http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/dept/


Dominion Astrophysical Observatory
http://www.hia.nrc.ca/facilities/dao/


ESA Hubble Information Centre
http://sci.esa.int/hubble/index.cfm


European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/


European Space Agency
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=1


Gemini Observatory
http://www.gemini.edu/


Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/


Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
http://www.ing.iac.es/


Indiana University Astronomy Department
http://astrowww.astro.indiana.edu/


JWST - Gallery - Telescope
http://jwstsite.stsci.edu/gallery/telescope.shtml


Kitt Peak National Observatory
http://www.noao.edu/kpno/


Konkoly Observatory
http://www.konkoly.hu/


Lick Observatory
http://www.ucolick.org/


Lowell Observatory
http://www.lowell.edu/


Lund Observatory
http://www.astro.lu.se/


McDonald Observatory
http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html


Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/


Mount Wilson Observatory
http://www.mtwilson.edu/


NASA
http://www.nasa.gov


NASA Infrared Telescope Facility
http://irtf.ifa.hawaii.edu/


NOAO
http://www.noao.edu/


NRAO
http://www.nrao.edu/


Palomar Observatory
http://astro.caltech.edu/observatories/palomar/public/index.html


SIRTF
http://sirtf.caltech.edu/


Sloan Digital Sky Survey
http://www.sdss.org/


SOFIA
http://sofia.arc.nasa.gov/


South African Astronomical Observatory
http://www.saao.ac.za/


Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
http://www.as.arizona.edu/


Subaru Telescope, NAOJ
http://www.subarutelescope.org/


Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/


UK Schmidt Telescope
http://www.aao.gov.au/ukst/


United States Naval Observatory
http://www.usno.navy.mil/


Vatican Observatory
http://clavius.as.arizona.edu/vo/


Very Large Array
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/vla/html/VLAhome.shtml


Very Large Telescope
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/


WIYN
http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/


Yerkes Observatory
http://astro.uchicago.edu/yerkes/

 
Miscellaneous


American Astronomical Society (AAS)
http://www.aas.org/


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


Bad Astronomy (Phil Plait)
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/index.html


Digital Sky
http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/SDA/digital_sky.html


International Dark-Sky Association
http://www.darksky.org/ida/ida_2/


SEDS
http://www.seds.org/


USNO Data Services
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/

 

 

 

 

 

Select popular Astronomy Books

  

The Last Three Minutes :

     Conjectures About the Ultimate Fate

     of the Universe (Science Masters Series)

       Paul C.W. Davies

 

Just Six Numbers:

     The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

       Martin J. Rees

 

Quintessence :

     The Mystery of the Missing Mass in the Universe

       Lawrence M. Krauss

 

The Five Ages of the Universe :

     Inside the Physics of Eternity

       Fred Adams

 

Looking for Earths :

     The Race to Find New Solar Systems

       Alan P. Boss

 

Cosmic Catastrophes :

     Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and

     Adventures in Hyperspace

       J. Craig Wheeler

 

Nightwatch

A Practical Guide to Viewing the Universe

  Terence Dickinson

 

A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets

  Jay M. Pasachoff

 

Exploring the Night Sky:

The Equinox Astronomy Guide for Beginners

  Terence Dickinson

 

The Guide to the Galaxy

       Nigel Henbest / Heather Cooper

 

The Sleepwalkers :

     A History of Man's Changing

     Vision of the Universe ,       Arthur Koestler

 

 

             The Accelerating Universe: \

Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant and the Beauty of the Cosmos

 Mario Livio

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Hardcover - 10 January, 2001

 

 

 Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity's Survival

Martin, FRS Rees

Heinemann

Hardcover - 1 May, 2003

 

 

 Gravity's Fatal Attraction: Black Holes in the Universe

Mitchell Begelman, Martin Rees

Scientific American Library

Paperback - 25 March, 1998

 

 

Before the Beginning: Our Universe and Others

 Martin Rees

Free Press

Paperback - 2 September, 2002

 

 

 The Demon-haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 Carl Sagan

Headline

Paperback - 1996

 

 

 Cosmos

 Carl Sagan

Macdonald

Paperback - 19 April, 1984

 

 

 Echo of the Big Bang

 Michael D. Lemonick

Princeton University Press

Hardcover - May 2003

 

 

 

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