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ASTRONOMY RESOURCES
2MASS - 2 Micron All Sky Survey at UMass
httpp://pegasus.astro.umass.edu/GradProg/2mass.html
2MASS at IPAC
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/
2MASS Second Incremental Data Release Gallery
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/second/
60 Second Adventures in Astronomy
http://snipurl.com/26h3fuh
Abrams Planetarium - Skywatcher's Diary
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
ADS Astronomy Custom Query Form
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
American Association of Variable Star Observers - AAVSO
http://www.aavso.org/
American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/
An Atlas of The Universe
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/
Ancient Observatories
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/
Armagh Observatory
http://www.arm.ac.uk/home.html
AstroGrid - Open Source Project Designed to Create a Working Virtual Observatory
http://www2.astrogrid.org/
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography by Chris Cook
http://www.abmedia.com/astro/
Astronomical League
http://www.astroleague.org/
Astronomical Resources on the Web
http://www.istl.org/02-spring/internet2.html
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/
Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrophysics/journal/159?detailsPage=description
AstronomyCenter.org
http://www.AstronomyCenter.org/
Astronomy Education and Outreach
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/astroed.html
Astronomy Education Review
http://aer.aip.org/aer/
Astronomy Internet Resources
http://snipurl.com/4su1
Astronomy Letters
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1562-6873/
astronomylinks.com - Astronomy and Space Links
http://astronomylinks.com/index.htm
Astronomy Notes
http://www.astronomynotes.com/
Astronomy Online™
http://www.AstronomyOnline.org/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
Astronomy Picture of the Day's Educational Links
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
Astronomy Technology Today Magazine - Guide To Astronomical Equipment
http://www.astronomytechnologytoday.com/
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
http://www.euro-vo.org/
Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal (ASAIP)
http://asaip.psu.edu/
AstroTurtle's Amateur Astronomy Page
http://www.astroturtle.com/
AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
http://www.stsci.edu/science/net-resources.html
Australian Centre for Astrobiology
http://aca.mq.edu.au/
Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
http://www.badastronomy.com/
Brian's Space Hot List
http://www.ssl.umd.edu/space/
Center for Astronomy Education
http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Photo Album - Chandra Images by Date
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html
Clear Sky Institute
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/
Cometography
http://www.cometography.com/
Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal (CAPJ)
http://www.capjournal.org/
Cool Cosmos
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
Cornell University: Curious About Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/index.php
Cosmic Distance Scales
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/cosmic.html
Cosmic Journey - A History of Scientific Cosmology
http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/
Cosmochemistry
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/ccp/
Current Space Weather
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/
Daylight Hours Explorer
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html
Deep Sky Search:Deep Sky Database:Deep Sky Objects:Galaxies:Globular Clusters:Open Clusters:Nebulae:Double Stars
http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/
Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic
Down To Earth Astronomy
http://oposite.stsci.edu/
Earth & Sky
http://www.earthsky.com/
Earth View
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?op=-s
Encalc - The Free Online Scientific Calculator
http://www.encalc.com/
Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://www.astronautix.com/
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html
Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/
ESO - The European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/
Famous Astronomers and Astrophysicists
http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/astronomers.html
Galaxies
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/04/galaxies.html
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/
Galaxy Zoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Galileo Project
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Gary's Astronomy Homework
http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm
GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
Google Directory - Science - Astronomy
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/
Google Moon
http://www.google.com/moon/
Google Sky
http://sky.google.com/
Heavens-Above
http://www.heavens-above.com/
HubbleSite
http://www.HubbleSite.org/
Institute of Meteoritics
http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/
International Association of Astronomical Artists
http://www.iaaa.org
International Outer Planet Watch
http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/IJW/
International Year of Astronomy 2009
http://astronomy2009.us/
Journey Through the Galaxy
http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/index.html
kuro5hin.org Mars in 186 Seconds
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/23/133723/157
Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/
Lunar and Planetary Science at the NSSDC
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetary_home.html
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/
Mars Exploration Rover Mission - Spirit and Opportunity
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera Image Gallery
http://barsoom.msss.com/moc_gallery/index.html
Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-320 Release
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/e7_e12_captioned_rel/
MARSOWEB - Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites
http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/index.html
Meteor Showers
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/05/meteor-showers.html
Milkyway@Home - Help Discover the Structures in the Milky Way Galaxy
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
Moon, Mars and Beyond
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html
Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (STScI)
http://archive.stsci.edu/
NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator
http://samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov/
NASA Space Shuttle Missions,International Space Station News, Astronauts News and Moon & Mars, Aeronautics,Science & Technology
http://nasa-image.blogspot.com/
NASA-Sponsored Classroom of the Future
http://www.cet.edu/?cat=cotf
NASA Sun Earth Media Viewer: Live Solar Images
http://ds9.ssl.berkeley.edu/viewer/flash/flash.html
National Virtual Observatory
http://www.us-vo.org/
NetAstroCatalog - A Mailing List For "Deep Sky" Observers Of All Levels
http://www.visualdeepsky.org/
NOVA: Sputnik Declassified
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sputnik/
Open Directory - Science: Astronomy
http://dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/
Planetary Picture List
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/picturelist.html
Planetary Photojournal: NASA's Image Access
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
Planet Four - Help from Stargazers to Explore the Surface of Mars
http://planetfour.org/
Planet Hunters
http://www.planethunters.org/
PlanetScapes
http://planetscapes.com/
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/pasa/
QuickCam and Unconventional Imaging Astronomy Group
http://www.qcuiag.co.uk/
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics - RSAA
http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/home.php
Satellite and Space Shuttle Tracking in Real Time
http://www.n2yo.com/
Science @ NASA : Astronomy
http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/Astronomy.htm
SEDS Messier Database
http://www.seds.org/messier/
Shade Tree Physics
http://www.datasync.com/~rsf1/
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
http://simbad.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/WSimbad.pl
Sky and Telescope Magazine
http://www.skypub.com/
Sky and Telescope News
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/
Skymania - Guide to Astronomy and Space News by Paul Sutherland
http://www.skymania.com/
SkyMap Software
http://www.skymap.com/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey - SkyServer
http://www.sdss.org/
Solar System Views
http://www.solarviews.com/
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
http://www.spacew.com/
Space Calendar (JPL)
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html
Space Exploration
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/education/space_ex/index.html
Space Feeds
http://feedspace.blogspot.com/
Spaceflight Now
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/
Space Science and Astronomy News
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/
Space Station/Shuttle Blog
http://spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/
SpaceWeather
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Space Weather Now
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
Spitzer Space Telescope
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Starry Night Astronomy Software
http://www.starrynight.com/
Stellarium - Open Source Planetarium for Your Computer
http://stellarium.org/
Student Astronomy Resources
http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/astronomy
The Astronomy Center
http://www.astronomycenter.org/
The Astronomer Magazine
http://www.theastronomer.org/
The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator
http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/index.html
The Meteoritical Society
http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/
The Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
http://www.nineplanets.org/
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
The Virtual Amateur Astronomer®
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/virtualastronomer/
The Web Nebulae
http://www.seds.org/billa/twn/
U.K. Society for Popular Astronomy
http://www.popastro.com
Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide by Robert Roy Britt
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html
USGS Astrogeology Research Program
http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/
Venus Transit
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_zillman_archive.html#108576106074833301
Views of the Solar System
http://www.solarviews.com/
View to the Edge of No-Return
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article835.htm
Virtual Sky!
http://virtualsky.org/index.html
WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/outreach/webstars.html
WIKISKY - Consolidating Astronomical, Astrophysical and Other Space Objects
http://www.wikisky.org/
WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/
World Sunlight Map
http://www.die.net/earth/
WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research
http://www.WorldWideTelescope.org/
Yahoo Directory Science - Astronomy
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/astronomy/
Your Sky
http://www.fourmilab.to/yoursky/
ASTROPHYSICS
Astronomy Research at Rutgers
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/ast-research.html
Astrophysical Bulletin
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/practical+astronomy/journal/11755
Astrophysics Simulation Collaboratory
http://wugrav.wustl.edu/ASC//
AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
http://fits.cv.nrao.edu/www/astronomy.html
Computational Astrophysics: Digital Demo Room
http://rainman.astro.uiuc.edu/ddr/
Google Directory - Science - Physics - Astrophysics
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Physics/Astrophysics/
Inside Einstein's Universe
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA)
http://iucaa.ernet.in/
NASA AstroPhysics Data System (ADS)
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
Ohio State University-Astrophysics and Cosmology
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~astro/
Open Directory - Science: Physics: Astrophysics
http://dmoz.org/Science/Physics/Astrophysics/
Physics and Astronomy - PhysLink.com
http://www.physlink.com/
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
STARBASE - Topics in AstroPhysics and Cosmology
http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/astrophysics/files/home.html
StarDate Online
http://stardate.org/
The SuperString Theory
http://www.superstringtheory.fanspace.com/
WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/www_info/webstars.html
BIOASTRONOMY
AstroBiology and SETI - Papers, Articles and Essays
http://www.nidsci.org/articles/articles3.php
AstroBiology Curriculum
http://astrobio.terc.edu/
Astrobiology Journal
http://www.liebertonline.com/loi/ast
Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php
AstroBiology at NASA
http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/
AstroBiology Web
http://www.AstroBiology.com/
Astromaterials Curation
http://www.geo-guide.de/cgi-bin/ssgfi/anzeige.pl?db=geo&nr=001517&ew=SSGFI
Bioastronomy 2004
http://bioastronomy2004.os.is/
Bioastronomy - The Net Advance of Physics
http://snipurl.com/4tby
Carnegie Institution: Astrobiology
https://nai.gl.ciw.edu/
Cosmic Evolution
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.htm
Extreme Life, Biospeology & Astrobiology
http://www.elba.bioflux.com.ro/
IAU COMMISSION 51 - Bioastronomy: Search for Extraterrestrial Life
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/iau/
Introduction to Exobiology
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/
NSCORT
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/nscort/
SETI and Astrobiology
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_astrobiology_030529.html
SETI.net - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://www.seti.net/
SETI - The Planetary Society
http://seti.planetary.org/
UCLA IGPP Center for Astrobiology
http://www.astrobiology.ucla.edu/pages/home.html
RADIO ASTRONOMY
AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/?branch_id=168&release_id=179046
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/
Basics of Radio Astronomy
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/radioastronomy/
Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies
http://www.astron.nl/craf/
Deep Space Network (DSN)
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/
Duel of the Winds
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103182
e-MERLIN
http://www.merlin.ac.uk/e-merlin/introduction2.html
European Radio Astronomy Club
http://www.eracnet.org/
European VLBI Network
http://www.evlbi.org/
Gallery of Radio Telescopes
http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~kotaro/RTs/rts.html
GAVRT - Lewis Center for Educational Research
http://www.lewiscenter.org/force/1068/projects/gavrt.php
Google Directory - Radio Astronomy
http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/Amateur/Radio_Astronomy/
Jodrell Bank Observatory - VLBI Group
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/
LOFAR
http://www.lofar.org/
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center: Arecibo Observatory
http://www.naic.edu/
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/
Open Directory - Radio Astronomy
http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/Amateur/Radio_Astronomy/
Radio Astronomy for Scientists Teachers and Students
http://www.radiosky.com/
Radio Astronomy Internet Resources
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_radio.html
Radio Astronomy Meteor Scatter Detection
http://page.to/meteor/
Radio Astronomy Supplies
http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ras.html
RadioNet
http://www.radionet-eu.org/
Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=106492
SARA: Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
http://www.qsl.net/SARA/
ROBOSCOPES
Automatic Astronomy: New Robotic Telescopes See and Think
http://snipurl.com/4tds
Bradford Robotic Telescope
http://www.telescope.org/
eSTAR Project
http://www.estar.org.uk/
Iowa Robotic Telescope Facilities
http://phobos.physics.uiowa.edu/index.shtml
Links to Robotic Telescope Projects
http://alpha.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~hessman/MONET/links.html
Liverpool Telescope
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
Lowell Education Online
http://kraken.lowell.edu/leo.php
NSO: The National Schools Observatory
http://www.glam.ac.uk/roccoto/observatory.php
Rent-a-scope
http://www.arnierosner.com/are/index.htm
Robotic and Remotely Controlled Telescopes
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/observatory/roboscope/the_list.html
ROTSE - Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
http://www.rotse.net/
SLOOH - Astronomy, Remote Control Telescopes, Observatories, View the Universe
http://www.slooh.com/homejs.jsp
Telescope Technologies Ltd
http://www.ngat.com/
The Faulkes Telescope Project
http://www.faulkes-telescope.com/
The National Academies Space Studies Board
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/index.html
UCSB Remote Access Astronomy
http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~jatila/raap/cmb_ppt.html
Yahoo Groups - RoboScope
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RoboScope/
DATA MINING RESOURCES FOR ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
http://cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html
Digitized Sky Survey
http://archive.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
University of Strasbourg
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr
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ASTRONOMY RESOURCES
2MASS - 2 Micron All Sky Survey at UMass
httpp://pegasus.astro.umass.edu/GradProg/2mass.html
2MASS at IPAC
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/
2MASS Second Incremental Data Release Gallery
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/second/
60 Second Adventures in Astronomy
http://snipurl.com/26h3fuh
Abrams Planetarium - Skywatcher's Diary
http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams/diary.html
ADS Astronomy Custom Query Form
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
American Association of Variable Star Observers - AAVSO
http://www.aavso.org/
American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/
An Atlas of The Universe
http://anzwers.org/free/universe/
Ancient Observatories
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ancientobs/
Armagh Observatory
http://www.arm.ac.uk/home.html
AstroGrid - Open Source Project Designed to Create a Working Virtual Observatory
http://www2.astrogrid.org/
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography by Chris Cook
http://www.abmedia.com/astro/
Astronomical League
http://www.astroleague.org/
Astronomical Resources on the Web
http://www.istl.org/02-spring/internet2.html
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.astrosociety.org/
Astronomy.com
http://www.astronomy.com/
Astronomy and Astrophysics Review
http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrophysics/journal/159?detailsPage=description
AstronomyCenter.org
http://www.AstronomyCenter.org/
Astronomy Education and Outreach
http://cassfos02.ucsd.edu/public/astroed.html
Astronomy Education Review
http://aer.aip.org/aer/
Astronomy Internet Resources
http://snipurl.com/4su1
Astronomy Letters
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1562-6873/
astronomylinks.com - Astronomy and Space Links
http://astronomylinks.com/index.htm
Astronomy Notes
http://www.astronomynotes.com/
Astronomy Online™
http://www.AstronomyOnline.org/
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
Astronomy Picture of the Day's Educational Links
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html
Astronomy Technology Today Magazine - Guide To Astronomical Equipment
http://www.astronomytechnologytoday.com/
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
http://www.euro-vo.org/
Astrostatistics and Astroinformatics Portal (ASAIP)
http://asaip.psu.edu/
AstroTurtle's Amateur Astronomy Page
http://www.astroturtle.com/
AstroWeb: Astronomical Internet Resources
http://www.stsci.edu/science/net-resources.html
Australian Centre for Astrobiology
http://aca.mq.edu.au/
Bad Astronomy by Phil Plait
http://www.badastronomy.com/
Brian's Space Hot List
http://www.ssl.umd.edu/space/
Center for Astronomy Education
http://astronomy101.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Chandra X-Ray Observatory - Photo Album - Chandra Images by Date
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/chronological.html
Clear Sky Institute
http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/
Cometography
http://www.cometography.com/
Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal (CAPJ)
http://www.capjournal.org/
Cool Cosmos
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/index.html
Cornell University: Curious About Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/index.php
Cosmic Distance Scales
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/cosmic.html
Cosmic Journey - A History of Scientific Cosmology
http://www.aip.org/history/cosmology/
Cosmochemistry
http://www.higp.hawaii.edu/ccp/
Current Space Weather
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/spaceweather/
Daylight Hours Explorer
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html
Deep Sky Search:Deep Sky Database:Deep Sky Objects:Galaxies:Globular Clusters:Open Clusters:Nebulae:Double Stars
http://www.virtualcolony.com/sac/
Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic
Down To Earth Astronomy
http://oposite.stsci.edu/
Earth & Sky
http://www.earthsky.com/
Earth View
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?op=-s
Encalc - The Free Online Scientific Calculator
http://www.encalc.com/
Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://www.astronautix.com/
Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/ETEmain.html
Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/
ESO - The European Southern Observatory
http://www.eso.org/
Famous Astronomers and Astrophysicists
http://cnr2.kent.edu/~manley/astronomers.html
Galaxies
http://zillman.blogspot.com/2005/04/galaxies.html
Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
http://www.galex.caltech.edu/
Galaxy Zoo
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Galileo Project
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Gary's Astronomy Homework
http://members.aol.com/gca7sky/astrohelp.htm
GISS: Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University in New York
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/
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http://www.google.com/moon/
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http://www.heavens-above.com/
HubbleSite
http://www.HubbleSite.org/
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International Association of Astronomical Artists
http://www.iaaa.org
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http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/IJW/
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Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/
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SkyMap Software
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Solar System Views
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/calendar.html
Space Exploration
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/
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http://spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/
Starry Night Astronomy Software
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http://www.nineplanets.org/
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/
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http://www.jupiterscientific.org/virtualastronomer/
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U.K. Society for Popular Astronomy
http://www.popastro.com
Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide by Robert Roy Britt
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html
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http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/
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http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_05_01_zillman_archive.html#108576106074833301
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http://www.springer.com/astronomy/practical+astronomy/journal/11755
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http://adswww.harvard.edu/
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http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
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http://www.astrobio.net/news/index.php
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http://bioastronomy2004.os.is/
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http://snipurl.com/4tby
Carnegie Institution: Astrobiology
https://nai.gl.ciw.edu/
Cosmic Evolution
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/cosmic_evolution/docs/splash.htm
Extreme Life, Biospeology & Astrobiology
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IAU COMMISSION 51 - Bioastronomy: Search for Extraterrestrial Life
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~meech/iau/
Introduction to Exobiology
http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/
NSCORT
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/nscort/
SETI and Astrobiology
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_astrobiology_030529.html
SETI.net - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
http://www.seti.net/
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http://seti.planetary.org/
UCLA IGPP Center for Astrobiology
http://www.astrobiology.ucla.edu/pages/home.html
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AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System)
http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/?branch_id=168&release_id=179046
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)
http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/
Basics of Radio Astronomy
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/radioastronomy/
Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies
http://www.astron.nl/craf/
Deep Space Network (DSN)
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/
Duel of the Winds
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103182
e-MERLIN
http://www.merlin.ac.uk/e-merlin/introduction2.html
European Radio Astronomy Club
http://www.eracnet.org/
European VLBI Network
http://www.evlbi.org/
Gallery of Radio Telescopes
http://www.nro.nao.ac.jp/~kotaro/RTs/rts.html
GAVRT - Lewis Center for Educational Research
http://www.lewiscenter.org/force/1068/projects/gavrt.php
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/Amateur/Radio_Astronomy/
Jodrell Bank Observatory - VLBI Group
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/vlbi/
LOFAR
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http://www.naic.edu/
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
http://www.nrao.edu/
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Radio Astronomy Internet Resources
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Bradford Robotic Telescope
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eSTAR Project
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Liverpool Telescope
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