Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Some Astromical Websites
Some links are probably broken on this page. I will update it as I find
the time.
Rutgers Specific
Astronomical Organizations
Overall Course
Websites on the Sky
Relevant mostly to the material in Chapters 2 and 3,
- Stellarium -- free planetarium-like software for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux
- Google Sky -- like Google Maps, but looking up
- Celestia -- free space views software for Mac OS, Windows, or Linux
- Antonio Cidadao's
Time-lapse Animations. A collection of very nice animations of
objects in the sky (the stars, moon, planets, etc.) done by an
amateur astronomer.
Some Astronomical Observatories
Relevant to Tools of Science section on telescopes in chapter 3, though
discoveries made with these telescopes can be relevant to topics throughout
the course.
The Sun
- SOHO:
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - a satellite dedicated to observing
the sun. Many interesting pictures and movies of solar activity.
- SDO: the Solar Dynamics
Observatory has been examining the Sun with high angular resolution since
2010.
- STEREO: a pair of spacecraft
that observe the Sun from positions leading and trailing the Earth in its
orbit. With SDO, they provide continous observations of the entire surface
of the Sun.
- Parker Solar Probe:
a NASA spacecraft that will repeatedly fly into the solar corona.
- GONG: Global Oscillation
Network Group - a group of six telescopes around the world that observe
the Sun for the purpose of doing helioseismology.
- Spaceweather.com News and
information about the Sun-Earth environment.
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