Last Updated February 3, 2003
By John Jenkins
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These links were taken from
links gathered by Chetek High School teacher Jim Adams.
If you find any problems with these sites, please email John Jenkins at jenkinsj@osceolawis.com

History of Astronomy

1	http://maia.usno.navy.mil/women_history/history.html	The Contributions of Women to the United States Naval Observatory.
2	http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stars/starmenu.html	Aboriginal (Native American) Star Knowledge: Menu
3	http://www2.gol.com/users/stever/jastro.html#Astro Lore	Astronomy in Japan
4	http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/	History of Astronomy and Space Science

Other Sources of Astronomy Information

5	http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/	NASA Information Services
6	http://www.nasa.gov/	NASA Information by Subject
7	http://skyandtelescope.com/	SkyLinks - Astronomy Education
8	http://tatlin.arc.co.uk/Space.arc	ARC Space Index

Deep Space Astronomy

9	http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/guidry/violence/ginfo1.html	The Milky Way System
10	http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/gal_milky.html	The Milky Way
11	http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/web_site.html	Introduction to Cosmology Web Site
12	http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/CosmosCompHome.html	COSMOS IN A COMPUTER

Solar System

13	http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/	MAP is part of the Explorers Program, selected by NASA in 1996, to probe conditions in the early universe. MAP measures temperature differences ("anisotropy") in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
14	http://marsweb.jpl.nasa.gov/	Mars Pathfinder Mission
15	http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/	Solar System Simulator
16	http://mars.sdsc.edu/default.html	Mars Pathfinder - Welcome to Mars!
17	http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm	Views of the Solar System
18	http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/index.html	Lunar Prospector Homepage

Telescopes

19	http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/publications/inquirer/tch-res.html	Teacher Resources: Hubble Space Telescope
20	http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/hst/photos-iii.html	NASA K-12 Internet: Hubble Space Telescope Image Gallery
21	http://www.mtwilson.edu/index.html	Mount Wilson Observatory
22	http://http.hq.eso.org/observing/	European Southern Observatory Telescopes
23	http://mishkin.jpl.nasa.gov/spacemicro/TIE_PAPER	Telescopes in Education (TIE): Building and Developing a New Program

Unidentified Flying Objects, etc.

24	http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/facts/HTML/FS-017-HQ.html	The US Government and Unidentified Flying Objects
25	http://www.odci.gov/csi/	CIA Studies In Intelligence Vol. 01 No. 1, 1997

The Sun

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sunspots/galileo1.html

How Gaileo Proved that Spots Were on the Sun

NASA Links

Organization URL(s)

Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO) http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/

FITS Support Office http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) http://ccsds.org/

Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Explorer (IMAGE) http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/

IMAGE POETRY and "Ask the Space Scientist" http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/

Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF) http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Gateway to NASA's vast lode of project information. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
This is the place to listen to Mars. http://www.planetary.org/

Computer generated view of the Polar Lander http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander/now.html

Lockheed Martin Astronautics space and rocket education site. http://www.ast.lmco.com/

This site features a 3-D map of Mars, and extensive links to other Mars resources. http://www.exploringmars.com/

NASA's Space Place caters to younger children, offering activities and facts. http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/

NASA education site with links to Mars photos. http://marsnt3.jpl.nasa.gov/education/

Organization	URL(s)
Space Science Data Operations Office (SSDOO)	http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)	http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/
FITS Support Office	http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS)	http://ccsds.org/
Imager for Magnetosphere-to-Aurora Global Explorer (IMAGE)	http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
IMAGE POETRY and "Ask the Space Scientist"	http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/
Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum (SECEF)	http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Gateway to NASA's vast lode of project information.	http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
This is the place to listen to Mars.	http://www.planetary.org/
Computer generated view of the Polar Lander	http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lander/now.html
Lockheed Martin Astronautics space and rocket education site.	http://www.ast.lmco.com/
This site features a 3-D map of Mars, and extensive links to other Mars resources.	http://www.exploringmars.com/
NASA's Space Place caters to younger children, offering activities and facts.	http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/
NASA education site with links to Mars photos.	http://marsnt3.jpl.nasa.gov/education/

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