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Astrophysics

 
  Astronomical Almanac Online -  http://asa.usno.navy.mil/
A joint publication of the U. S. Nautical Almanac Office and the Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO) in the United Kingdom. It contains "precise ephemerides of the Sun, Moon, planets, and satellites, data for eclipses and other astronomical phenomena for a given year."
  Astrophysics Data Center -  http://adswww.harvard.edu/
A NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.3 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.
  Astrophysics & Space Science Center -  http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradSpace.html
News, databases, calculators, and other tools and links for researching the field of astronomy.
  Atomic & Molecular Databases -  http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/amdata/ampdata/amdata.shtml
Links to and information about online databases from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
  CDS - Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg -  http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/
A data center dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data and related information.  NASA stopped maintaining its Astronomical Data Center in favor of this site.
  Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams -  http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html
News and information on astronomical events maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
  College Level Astronomy Courses -  http://home.eckerd.edu/~hudsonrl/chn/sitescol.html
Links to the course web sites for hundreds of astronomy classes.  Most pages contain useful information such as "practice exams, sample quizzes, lecturenotes, homework problems, lab work, observational assignments,and study tips."
  Dictionary of Astronomy -  AVL resource - if you are Off Campus, click here. You will be prompted to enter your username (student ID or employee ID number) and password (last name) to access this resource
Browse or search this reference book of over 4,000 definitions.
  Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature -  http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/
Offers reliable, high quality, searchable database of names used in our planentary system.
  Great Images in NASA -  http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/
NASA's database of over a thousand images from historic events.  You can browse by subject or center, or search the entire database by keyword.
  The Nine Planets -  http://www.seds.org/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html
A multimedia overview of the history, mythology, and scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.
  Planetary Science Research Discoveries -  http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/
An educational site devoted to sharing the fascinating discoveries being made in planetary and space sciences through NASA-sponsored research.
  Scientific & Technical Aerospace Reports -  http://www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/star.html
An "online publication listing citations and abstracts of NASA and worldwide aerospace-related research."