Stars (Astronomy)

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Binary Stars Black Holes@ Dwarf Stars Names Neutron Stars Novae and Supernovae

Planetary Nebulae@ Pulsars@ Star Clusters@ Stellar Evolution The Sun@ Variable Stars

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Bright Star Catalogue Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, S http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc Laser Star Astrophysics Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres. http://members.rogers.com/laserstars/ How Stuff Works: Stars Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links. http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets A Parade of New Planets http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21 ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory. http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/ Solar and Stellar Seismology Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition. http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/seismology/seismology.html Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/royal_society/alpha/alpha.html Scientific American: A Sharper View of the Stars About a new generation of optical interferometers, which uses two almost identical signals to give more information about these celestial bodies. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0000FFB8-76A3-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21 Stars and Galaxies Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes. http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html Star Maps Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available. http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html Summer Sky Tour A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky. http://my.execpc.com/60/B3/culp/astronomy/ Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html Space Telescope Science Institute A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html BBC Space - Stars Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Inclu http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/ The Formation of Binary Stars Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis. http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html The Fifty Brightest Stars The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications. http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html Spectra and Spectra Analysis: Stars Includes a section on spectral classification of stars. http://astrofili.org/members/osservareilcielo/spetring.htm SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids. http://www.spacewander.com Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html The Constellations since 1996 Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology. http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm Star Data Pages Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm Measuring the Stars In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation. http://www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm The Classification of Stellar Spectra NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars. http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/allen/spectral_classification.html Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community. http://ad.usno.navy.mil/ Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/ Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart... http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html University of Vaasa - Star photos Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window. http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifstar.html Cosmobrain Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star. http://www.cosmobrain.com/

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