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Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
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Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
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Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
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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/
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Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
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A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
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Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.
maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html
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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
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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
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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
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Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html
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Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
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Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
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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
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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
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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
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Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition.
www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/Level01/seismology/seismology.html
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A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/category/galaxy/quasar_active%20nucleus/
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A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars.
osservareilcielo.astrofili.org/spetring.htm
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