PHY 111 Astronomy Web Sites

This page is just a STARTING point for your searches.

If you find additional sites that you want to share with the class, e-mail me the address of the site and brief description of what is there and I will add it to the list below.

Starlinks This is the web site maintained by the publisher of your textbook.   It has additional information organized by chapter in the text, interactive exercises and other study aids.

Sky and Telescope This is the home page of Sky and Telescope magazine. They post weekly updates of what's new in astronomy and provide links to many other sources of astronomical information.  Look under "Resources" to find the links.

Astronomy Picture of the Day This site is maintained by professional astronomers. Each day a new "cool" picture is chosen for display and an explanation of what is in the picture is provided. Many of the pictures are related to recent discoveries in astronomy. An archive of past pictures of the day is searchable for information on a particular topic.

The Planetary Society This is the homepage of an organization of scientists and amateurs with interests in the exploration of the solar system. It provides information on upcoming NASA missions to the other planets, new discoveries in the solar system and of planets around other stars.

SEDS This homepage is maintained by the University of Arizona chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. It contains lots of information including a "Hot Topics" section which is nicely done.

Cosmic Mystery Tour This site contains information on topics related to the evolution of the universe.

Astroweb A student in a previous class recommended this web site which must have a link to every astronomy site in existence (literally hundreds of sites).

Stardate  This University of Texas site has information on all the planets as well as other topics such as stellar evolution that you might find useful.

MarsMission This site contains lots of info about the current Mars  missions as well as past and future missions to Mars.