Thursday, February 09, 2012

Administration

 

Astronomy and Space Web Resources

Comet images recorded by the faculty and staff of the CSN Planetarium featuring recent photographs of Comet Hale-Bopp.

Satellite Tracking. This site provides ground track and visibility information on several satellites including the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA Resources

NASA's Educational services are available from Spacelink.

Nathan Smith at the Utah State University Educational Resources & Technology Center has created a useful set of links.

NASA's JPL has recently posted a new electronic book on The Basics of Space Flight.

The Space Telescope Science Institute features the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The latest information on the Galileo Mission at Jupiter is available from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jet Propulsion Laboratories has a collection of many of the best images from NASA's exploration programs.

Other Resources

An electronic version of Science Magazine is available at Science Online.

An annotated bibliography about expeditions to, & the future settlement of, the Moon & Mars compiled by David S. F. Portree.

Views of the Solar System is an excellent survey of the Solar System by Calvin Hamilton that includes links to many JPL sites.

The Physics Department at the University of Oregon has posted an interesting web page about the newly discovered planet circling the star 51 Pegasi.

Try the online orrery called Solar System Live.