Astronomy and Physics Web Links

8/23/00

Compiled by Rick Dower

(NOTE: Thus list does not contain the list that Tom and Norm assembled on the disk for their Workshop project, although there may be some overlap.)

 

ASTRONOMY

Categories:    Almanacs and Atlases

Amateur

Education

                                    History

                                    NASA

                                    Solar, Planetary

                                    Asteroids, Comets, Meteorites

                                    High Energy

                                    Cosmology

                                    Misc.

 

ASTRONOMY – Almanacs and Atlases

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/software/mica/micainfo.html

            Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac from the US Naval Observatory

 

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/

            JPL’s Solar System Dynamics Group for locations of solar system objects

 

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/

            Marshall SFC’s site to locate Earth satellites

 

www.nationalgeographic.com/solarsystem

            3D virtual orrery

 

www.willbell.com/math/mc11.htm

            Publisher for tables of planetary positions, etc.

 

www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/stars/welcome.htm

            celestial atlases (1482-1851)

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Amateur

www.spectrashift.com

            amateur astronomy radial velocity measurements with CCD cameras

 

http://astrwww.astr.cwru.edu

            to request images to be obtained by Case Western Reserve’s automated telescope

 

www.bigscience.com/setiathome.html

            to become part of project to use PCs to analyze SERENDIP data from Arecibo

 

 

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Education

www.analemma.com

            tutorial on analemma

 

http://spacelink.nasa.gov/

            facts and figures about NASA programs intended for teachers

 

www.aas.org/~education/index1.html

            Amer. Astronomical Soc. Database of educational resources

 

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu

            Astronomy info. from Students for the Exploration and Development of Space – lots of stuff on astronomy topics

 

http://ispec.ucsd.edu/intro.html

            International Space Physics Educational Consortium site

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/education

            NASA Education Home Page

 

www.aspsky.org/subpages/education.html

            Astronomical Society of the Pacific site

 

www.aspsky.org/education/astroacts.html

            Astronomical Society of the Pacific list of astronomy activities for K-12 students

 

http://janus.astro.umd.edu

            Astronomy Workshop site

 

www.badastronomy.com

            Various goofs and the real deal

 

 

ASTRONOMY – History

www.stonepages.com

            European stone monuments, e.g. Stonehenge,etc.

 

ASTRONOMY – NASA

http://science.nasa.gov/

            more information about NASA programs, e.g.hubbleconstant.com

 

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Imgcat/

            National Space Science Data Center – popular NASA images

 

http://heritage.stsci.edu/

            Space Telescope Science Institute images from Hubble Space Telescope

 

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/ap11ann/introduction.htm

            Apollo 11 information

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Solar, Planetary

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/bestofsoho

            Pictures from Solar and Helioshperic Observatory satellite

 

www.sec.noaa.gov/sec_home.html

www.spaceweather.com

            NOAA and NASA sites on space weather in region between Sun and Earth

 

www.pfrr.alaska.edu/~pfrr/aurora

            U. of Alaska Aurora site

 

www.scotese.com

            Paleomap Project animation of drifting continents

 

http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu

            Geoscience Information System Interactive Map Server allows construction and downloading of customized maps of Earth features

 

www.usgs.gov/Earthshots

            Landsat images of Earth

 

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/gallery

            images from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Ocean Remote Sensing Group

 

www.scd.ucar.edu/vg

            National Center for Atmospheric Research visualization gallery

 

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml

            Weather World 2010 Project – explanations and case studies

 

www.photolib.noaa.gov

            NOAA image archive (from Ben Franklin’s drawing of Gulf Stream to present)

 

www.ngdc.noaa.gov

            National Geophysical Data Center site

 

www.inconstantmoon.com

            Topographical features visible on a given night, links to other lunar sites

 

http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/

            Mars Global Surveyor images, e.g. shadow of Phobos on Mars’ surface

 

www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/sepo/fulldata.html

            compendium of Galileo’s first nine orbits of Jupiter

 

www.seds.org/billa/tnp

            multimedia tour of the nine planets

 

http://spaceart.com/solar

            views and movies of planets constructed from satellite images

 

http://etacha.as.arizona.edu/~eem/exo.html

            extrasolar planets and links to other sites

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Asteroids, Comets, Meteorites

http://near.jhuapl.edu

            photos of asteroid Eros from NEAR satellite in orbit around it

 

www.meteorlab.com/homepage.htm

            fundamentals of meteorites

 

www.geocities.com/~dweir

            large gallery of annotated meteorite images

 

www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc

            information on the 14 known Martian meteorites

 

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov

            JPL’s Near Earth Object Program site

 

http://gdcinfo.agg.nrcan.gc.ca/toc.html?/crater/world_craters.html

            Natural Resources Canada database on 160 impact craters on Earth

 

 

ASTRONOMY – High Energy

www.heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov

            High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Resource Center, access to raw data and much more

 

www.astro.uva.nl/~ecford/qpos.html

            Quasi-periodic Oscillations Site – recent papers and obs. on x-ray binaries

 

www.ucolick.org/~andrew

            collapsar model for gamma ray bursts

 

http://aries.usno.navy.mil:80/ad_home/pne

            images of galactic planetary nebulae

 

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu

            Space Telescope Science Institute’s page on black holes

 

 

www.xraytelescope.com

http://chandra.harvard.edu

            Chandra Observatory site

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Cosmology

www.hubbleconstant.com

            history and news on age and size of the universe

 

www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

            Cosmology Tutorial

 

www.sns.ias.edu/~whu/physics/physics.html

tutorials on cosmic microwave background

 

http://sca.ncsa.uiuc.edu

            supercomputer simulations of galaxy cluster evolution

 

 

ASTRONOMY – Misc.

http://adswwwharvard.edu

            Astrophysics Data System data base

 

http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov

            SkyView virtual telescope creates all-sky images at various wavelengths from data bases

 

www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_survey.html

            all-sky maps in various wavelengths

 

www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/releases/spr99/index.html

images form 2MASS all-sky infrared survey

 

www.space.com

            astronomy images and more

 

www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/kaspar/obs_mishaps/mishaps.html

            examples of faulty astronomical images and fixes

 

http://graffiti.u-bordeaux.fr/MAPBX/roussel/anim-e.html

            Space Movie Archive – movies and animations

 

www.astro.uva.nl/~michielb/sun/kaft.htm

            movies of eclipses, solar flares, etc.

 

http://isi.ssl.berkeley.edu/wr104.html

            movie of Wolf-Rayet 104 spinning from Keck I images

 

www.pagecreations.com/astrocappella

            songs about astronomy

 

 

PHYSICS

Categories:    Constants

                                    History

                                    Education

                                    Energy

                                    Solids and Liquids

                                    Aeronautics

                                    Sound

                                    Light & Optics

                                    Electricity & Magnetism

                                    Particles

Nuclear

                                    Misc.

 

 

PHYSICS - Constants

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html

            Most recent release of values of physical constants from NIST

 

www.time.gov

            Coordinated Universal Time

 

www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/faq/faq.htm

            information on time signals

 

 

PHYSICS - History

www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

            Archimedes – texts and inventions

 

www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/geometry/content.htm

            Geometry of War, 1000-1750 at Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science

 

www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/

            manuscript of Galileo’s “Notes on Motion”

 

www.imss.fi.it/index.html

            Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence site – Leonardo, Galileo, Lavoisier, etc.

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html

            Library of Congress archive of Alexander Graham Bell’s papers

 

www.aip.org/history/esva/

            Emilio Segre Visual Archives at AIP Center for History of Physics – photos of physicists and astronomers

 

www.aip.org/history/heisenberg

            Amer. Inst. of Physics exhibit on Heisenberg

 

http://timeline.aps.org

            Amer. Physical Soc. Timeline for physics from 1896

 

www.pbs.org/transistor/index.html

            history of transistor discovery – accompanies PBS show

 

 

PHYSICS - Education

www.aps.org

            American Physical Society and many links to other sites

 

www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab

            variety of physics experiment applets

 

 

PHYSICS - Energy

http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~khirata/indexe.htm

            Stirling engine – tutorial, pictures, instructions for building

 

www.nrel.gov

            National Renewable Energy Laboratory site

 

www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html

            California Energy Commission site

 

 

PHYSICS - Solids and Liquids

www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals

            snow crystals and research on them

 

http://cst-www.nrl.navy.mil/lattice

            Crystal Lattice Structures site maintained by Naval Research Lab

 

http://web.physics.twsu.edu/facsme/nitro.htm

            demos with liquid nitrogen

 

http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/~ubws/nitrogen.html

            fun with liquid nitrogen

 

 

PHYSICS - Aeronautics

www.usafa.af.mil/dfp/cockpit-phys/cp_home.htm

            tutorials on jet flight topics

 

www.itsc.com/movies/index.htm

            computational fluid dynamics movies

 

 

www.gfdl.gov/~jps/GFDL_VG_Gallery.html#Hurricane

            Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory simulations of hurricanes

 

 

PHYSICS - Sound

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute

            musical acoustics, physics of the flute

 

http://hyperion.advanced.org/19537

            aspects of sound physics and perception

 

www.provide.net/~bfield/abs_pitch.html

            information on perfect pitch and those who have it

 

http://www.imedea.uib.es/~piro/PitchPage

            perceived pitch of complex sounds

 

 

PHYSICS - Light & Optics

www.visionscience.com

            links to various areas of vision science

 

www.bell-labs.com/history/laser

            laser history and operating principles

 

 

PHYSICS - Electricity & Magnetism

http://superconductor.org

            links to information on superconductors

 

http://www.mrsec.wisc.edu/edetc/MFM.html

            refrigerator magnets – structure and uses

 

http://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/anim.html

            electromagnetic field movie images

 

http://americanhistory.si.edu/scienceservice

            historical photos of electrical devices

 

http://ippex.pppl.gov/ippe

            Internet Plasma Physics Education Experience site

 

 

PHYSICS –Relativity and Einstein

www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~weiskopf/gallery

            Animated cartoons give relativistic views

 

www.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/arcquery

            Cal Tech photo archive with Einstein photos

 

www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpiceinstein.html

            Einstein family photos, etc.

 

www.aip.org/history/einstein

            Amer. Inst. of Physics site on Einstein

 

 

PHYSICS - Particles

www.aps.org/resources/particle.shtml

Particle physics links maintained by APS (American Physical Society)

 

www.slac.stanford.edu/library/pdg

            Particle physics Web directory

 

http://ParticleAdventure.org

            lbnl particle data group site on particles and interactions

 

http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep.html

            includes The Particle Adventure and Fusion activities

 

www.particleadventure.org

            The Particle Adventure site on the Standard Model

 

http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppukpics/pr_pow.html

            Particle Physics in the UK Picture of the Week

 

www.physics.helsinki.fi/neutrino

            U. of Helsinki Ultimate Neutrino Page – educational applets, etc.

 

www.hep.anl.gov/ndk/hypertext/nu_industry.html

            links to neutrino experiments

 

www.rhic.bnl.gov

            Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider site

 

www.ccd.bnl.gov/visualization/gallery/au_on_au

            animation of gold-gold nucleus collisions in RHIC at Brookhaven

 

http://superstringtheory.com

            The Official String Theory Web Site – information, interviews

 

http://quark.caltech.edu/stringtheory

            humorous tutorial on string theory

 

http://ParticleAdventure.org/other/othersites.html.

Links to other particle physics sites

 

http://quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/summer00/index.shtml

Summer projects by QuarkNet teachers

 

http://quarknet.fnal.gov/projects/summer00/detectors/detchallenges.shtml

For event (and bubble) pictures, go to resources for detectors, then Events and Challenges:

 

 

PHYSICS – Nuclear

http://ie.lbl.gov/toi.htm

            Table of Isotopes information and links

 

http://c14.sci.waikato.ac.nz/webinfo/index.html

            carbon-14 dating history and applications

 

www.iaea.or.at/worldatom

            International Atomic Energy Agency site

 

www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm

            tutorial on MRI and related topics

 

 

PHYSICS - Misc.

www.ala.org/acrl/resmar00.html

            annotated list of physics Web sites

 

www.aip.org/history/esva

            Amer. Inst. of Physics photo archive

 

http://www-perg.phast.umass.edu/UMPERG

            U. Mass Physics Education Research Group site

 

www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jossem/ICPE/BOOKS.html

            results of research on physics education

 

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html

            answers to physics and relativity FAQs

 

http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money

            Physicists on banknotes, link to physicists on stamps

 

http://physlink.com

            images, history, cartoons, essays, etc.

 

http://anchor.as.utexas.edu/~pamela/pa_humor.html

            Physics and Astronomy humor page

 

www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~dcc/phys/humor.html

            Physics Humor Links

 

www.infoline.ru/g23/5495

            Russian animations of waves, optics, mechanics, thermodynamics

 

www.towson.edu/~sweeting/wg/candywww.htm

            triboluminescence from WintOGreen Life Saver candy

 

www.di.com/Theater/Main.html

            Digital Instruments NanoTheater images

 

 

SCIENCE ETC.

            Categories:     Nobel Prize

                                    Humor

                                    Misc.

 

SCIENCE ETC. – Nobel Prize

www.nobel.se

            Nobel Prize site

 

http://nobelchannel.com

            video discussions, animations, etc. related to Nobel Prize winners and work

 

http://nobelprizes.com

            info, gossip, links

 

 

SCIENCE ETC. – Humor

www.pagecreations.com/astrocappella

            songs about astronomy

 

http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/science

            science jokes

 

http://anchor.as.utexas.edu/~pamela/pa_humor.html

            Physics and Astronomy humor page

 

www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~dcc/phys/humor.html

            Physics Humor Links

 

 

SCIENCE ETC. – Misc.

www.practicingsafescience.org

            lab safety course from Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 

www.nsta.org

            National Science Teachers Association

 

http://www-perg.phast.umass.edu/UMPERG

            U. Mass Physics Education Research Group site

 

www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jossem/ICPE/BOOKS.html

            results of research on physics education

 

www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

            4000 Years of Women in Science and links to other resources

 

www.utexas.edu/world/lecture

            links to online course material posted by professors

 

http://kahuna.psych.uiuc.edu/ipl

            Internet Psychology Lab

 

www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits

            perceptual illusions, etc.

 

www.thinkquest.ord

            winning web sites designed by high school students electricity, cosmology, etc.

 

www.npr.org/programs/science

            Archives of Sounds Like Science

 

http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Money

            Physicists on banknotes, link to physicists on stamps

 

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html

            answers to physics and relativity FAQs

 

www.guyy.demon.co.uk

            answers to chemistry FAQs

 

www.faqs.org/faqs/by-newsgroup/sci

            answers to science FAQs

 

www.urbanlegends.com/science

            fact and fiction in popular understanding of science

 

www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

            Truth about science misconceptions

 

http://Landau1.phys.Virginia.EDU/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork

www.howstuffworks.com

            explanations of everyday objects and mechanisms