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| seds.org/messier/ List of nebulae, including images and statistical data, stars, and galaxies and statistical data, originally compiled by the French astronomer Charles Messier between 1758 to 1782. | |
| heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Includes information on supernovas, black holes, X-ray binaries and the research programme. | ||
| astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sow.html Offers detailed but non-technical descriptions of selected stars and a link to a photograph of their respective constellations, geared towards amateur astronomers. Includes a section on the natures of stars, which consists of basic overviews of key concep | ||
| toadstool.demon.co.uk/space/heaven.htm These notes on pulsars and Quark stars are part of a collection of the British MENSA Space Special Interest Group. | ||
| ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/ Contains data sets, factual documents, images, and links to other similar projects. Project group using infrared technology to scan the skies to create a complete celestial census. | ||
| jb.man.ac.uk/~pulsar/ Document summaries, datasets, research papers and news about pulsar research. | ||
| ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/second/ Images are offered as thumbnails which link to full-sized images. Gallery containing celestial images, including the centre of the Milky Way, the Sombrero galaxy, the Crab Nebula, and the Dark Nebula. | ||
| rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/ Educational use of the information by private individuals or schools is encouraged. Text from a series of educational leaflets covering a wide range of topics in astronomy and cosmology. | ||
| iap.fr/iap.html Research at IAP embraces a wide range of topics from particle physics to cosmology. Recent prepublications of IAP researchers are available online. Information is in English The IAP is a laboratory of the National Science Research Centre in France (CNRS). | ||
| digital.library.pitt.edu/parallax/ Presents electronic versions of 10 volumes of star parallax data and calculations produced by the Allegheny Observatory between 1910 and 1969. Reports are searchable and browsable, and contain tables of data, information on methodology of astronomical obs | ||
| oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html Pictures are organised in year groupings from 1994 and by subject, with press releases and copyright details. A collection of images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope. | ||
| antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations made with strict adherence to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The descriptions are written to be Descriptions and MPEG animations that simulate travel to black holes and neutron stars. | ||
| oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/96/01.html Several hundred new galaxies are visible in this view of the universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), taken from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Photographs are available in low and high resolution, black and white and colour, and are accompanied with | ||
| jb.man.ac.uk/~pulsar/tutorial/tut/tut.html Its content and layout follows the book by Lyne and Graham-Smith on Pulsar Astronomy in many areas. A tutorial produced as part of the lecture course given to MSc students at Jodrell bank in 1996. | ||
| cfpa.berkeley.edu/BHfaq.html Answers to questions such as 'how big is a black hole', 'what is a wormhole' and 'what is a white hole'. | ||
| lindahall.org/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome2.htm An exhibition celebrating the Celestial Atlas, featuring star atlases and maps from 1482 to 1851. Includes an introduction to celestial cartography, Johann Bayer's Uranometria (1603), Julius Schiller's Coelum Christianum, Johann Hevelius's Firmamentum (16 | ||
| earthvisions.net/bcp/aster/constellations/ Offers data on all recognised constellations including the location of each, descriptions accompanied by constellation charts, and notes on special stars or star clusters. | ||
| cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad.html The SIMBAD astronomical database brings together basic data, and bibliography, cross-identifications, observational measurements, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external gal | ||
| archive.stsci.edu/iue/ Data may be obtained from the catalogue by file transfer. A collection of over 107,000 spectral images, including ultraviolet observations of every kind of object from planets to quasars over the years 1978 to 1996. | ||
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