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Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.
www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.
ad.usno.navy.mil/
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.
maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html
Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them
www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml
Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star.
www.cosmobrain.com/
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.
www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html
Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids.
www.spacewander.com
Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications.
www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html
Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.
www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/
A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.
my.execpc.com/60/B3/culp/astronomy/
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.
laserstars.org/
All-text page on the various stages in the discovery and development of theories of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
www.geocities.com/tonylance/dwarf.html
NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars.
www.shef.ac.uk/physics/people/pacrowther/spectral_classification.html
Learn about the fascinating universe, especially stars at this ThinkQuest site. There are two versions of the site to choose from, one for younger kids (under 12), and one for older kids (13 and over).
library.thinkquest.org/25763/
Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition.
www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/Level01/seismology/seismology.html
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/category/galaxy/quasar_active%20nucleus/
A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars.
osservareilcielo.astrofili.org/spetring.htm
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/DarkStar/alpha.html
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