John Maunder's

Newfoundland and Labrador

Natural Sciences Links

Astronomy and Space Science

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• To compile an extensive reference resource for students of the natural history of Canada's easternmost province.

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All links checked October 30, 2005.

Page last updated October 30, 2005.

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• Agencies, Institutions, and Associations
• Astronomy and Space - General
• Astronomy and Space - Lists of Links
• Astrophotography
• Comets, Meteorites, and Asteriods
• Deep Space, the Universe, and Astrophysics
• Eclipses
• History of Astronomy
• Novas and Supernovas
• SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
• Solar System
• Sun [The]
• Venus
• Earth and Moon
• Mars
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Solar System - General

Agencies, Institutions, and Associations

• Atlantic Canada Physics and Astronomy Resource Page
• NASA's Homepage Huge resource.
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies Excellent. From NASA.
• Goddard Space Flight Center A super page from this prestigeous NASA agency.
• Humber Valley Astronomy Club West coast Newfoundland club.
• Royal Observatory, Greenwich A goldmine.
• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: St. John's Centre The Newfoundland branch!

Astronomy and Space - General

• Astronomes Amateurs An astounding French-language site about everything astronomical! Great graphics! Extensive. Updated and MUCH improved! Even has VRML [virtual reality] files! Forget any language problems. Go there! Translate page.
• Astronomy Hypertext Textbooks: Astronomy A work in progess. Good stuff.
• Bad Astronomy Astronomy myths debunked. Excellent.
• Bradford Robotic Telescope Observatory Interactive. YOU can use the telescope, yourself. Remotely! No kidding! Kind of hard to describe; check it out for yourself. A diverse, interesting, and innovative site. [Telescope not operating at the time the link was last checked; keep checking back]
• Clear Sky Clock For St. John's. Shows when it will be cloudy or clear for up to the next two days.
• Exploring Planets in the Classroom Primarily meant for schools, but contains a lot of good stuff for a varied audience!
• International Space Station Detailed directions for viewing, from 13 Newfoundland towns!
• Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page Some original material. HUGE LINK SECTION! A Nova Scotia site!
• NASA's Observatorium Nifty site. Lots of really interesting stuff for everyone.
• Royal Greenwich Observatory Fact Files A gold mine!
• Sky, [The] Awesome! Go there! [No response the last time the link was checked]
• Space Calender What it says - an astounding contribution by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab - LINK HEAVEN!
• Space Weather.com Super site!
• today@nasa.gov NASA News
• Today's Space Weather Excellent.
• Windows to the Universe Maybe graphically overdone, but, whatever! Great resource! Go there!

Astronomy and Space - Lists of Links

• Jump to the Lists of Links page.

Astrophotography

Hubble Space Telescope

• Down-to-Earth Astronomy Hubble Space Telescope news, features, and more. Tremendous images of everything!
• Hubble Site Fabulous Photos! Lots of info.
• NSSDC Photo Gallery From the [U.S.] National Space Science Data Center. The Solar System, and beyond.

Other

• Astro-Homepage of Steen Weichel Useful amateur page. Super links section.
• Astronomical Image Library If there's an image of it, you should be able to find it here! An astounding catalogue. Searchable archive. [Was "temporarily offline" the last time the link was checked.]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day Fabulous. Huge archive!
• Clouds Forecast For Astronomical Data plus animations.
• Galaxy Photography: Astrophotography by Jason Ware Terrific!
• Michael Purcell's Driveway Astrophotography Splendid stuff! Links.
• Dale Ireland's Astronomy Page Telescopic photography by the author. A LOT of great stuff! [Under heavy re-construction the last time the link was checked. Click the photo!]
• Space Science Pictures From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Comets, Meteorites, and Asteroids

• About Comets From The National Optical Astronomy Observatories of Tucson, Arizona.
• Asteriod and Comet Impact Hazards Despite its ominous name, a very comprehensive and excellent asteriod and comet page. Many links.
• Comet C/1996 B2 Hayakutake: The Great Comet of 1996 Excellent page from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.
• Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page: The Great Comet of 1997 Another great page.
• Comet Observation Local Home Page for Chernogolovka Excellent stuff.
• Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9: Collision with Jupiter Showtime!
• Comets and Meteor Showers From Gary W. Kronk. Complete site. Perhaps the best.
• Cull Image of Comet Hale-Bopp Observer: Clifford Cull. Location: St. John's, Newfoundland.
• Current Comets What's out there now?
• "Hale Bopp" from Newfoundland! A fine contribution from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: St. John's [Newfoundland] Centre. However, since the main text is displayed in white characters, you won't see much if you've set your background colour to white!
• Classification of Meteorites From Micheal I. Casper. A bit technical in places, but there you go!
• Meteorite and Impacts Advisory Committee of the Canadian Space Agency Comprehensive. A lot of neat stuff!
• Near Earth Asteriod Rendezvous Great pictures of the asteriod Mathilde!
• North America Meteor Network Dedicated to coverage of sporadic and meteor shower activity.
• Uncovering Details - Hale-Bopp

Deep Space, the Universe, and Astrophysics

• Beyond Einstein: from the Big Bang to Black Holes Whoaa! All this in one website? Only NASA would attempt it! A vast and sprawling compilation.
• Constellations and their Stars [The] Excellent.
• Cosmology of the Local Group The small collection of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs is a laboratory for the study of galaxy dynamics and dark matter.
• Messier Catalog, [The] Charles Messier, and deep space objects. A LOT of stuff here.
• Plasma Recombination Lasers in Stellar Atmospheres It appears that laser emissions can be produced by stars with violent stellar winds. These controversial observations have significant implications for cosmology.
• Science of Star Trek [The] What is a warp drive, anyway? See also: Warp Drive. When? - a fascinating science site.
• Understanding the Hubble Sequence of Galaxies Galaxies come in two basic flavors, ellipticals and spirals. The elliptical galaxies are dense and slowly rotating while the spiral galaxies are more diffuse and rapidly rotating ...
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole or a neutron star? This site provides descriptions and MPEG movies that take you there! "A stimulating, relativistically accurate trip!" - Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cal. Tech.
• Web Nebulae [The] Excellent nebula pictures.

Eclipses

• January 20-21/2000 Lunar Eclipse from Newfoundland! Nice!
• 2003 Lunar Eclipse; [The]
• Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page From NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. [May crash Netscape]
• [Solar Eclispe 1999:] Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, St. John's Centre Great Newfoundland shots!
• Solar Eclipse Images From the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Solar Eclipse Information at the Solar Data Analysis Center From the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
• Solar Eclipses Clear. Concise.
• Stories from the Path of Totality The Exploratorium's solar eclipse expedition to the Caribbean February 26, 1998. Awesome stuff. RealVideo files. You are there!
• Total Solar Eclipse Page Good stuff!
• What Causes an Eclipse? Good site.

History of Astronomy

• Astronomiae Historia/History of Astronomy Excellent.

Novas and Supernovas

• Supernova

SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Intelligence

• SETI Institute The home for scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Solar System

Sun

• SDAC All about the Sun. From the Solar Data Analysis Center at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Extensive. Excellent.
• SOHO: Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, [The] From NASA, of course. Excellent.
• Stanford Solar Center "Providing Solar On-Line Activity Resources for the joy of solar science exploration". Huge. Awesome! Billed as a student site, but a tremendous resource for all ages.
• Sun [The] From the excellent Nine Planets site.
• Ulysses/NASA Home Page The Ulysses Mission - A Deep Space Voyage to High Latitudes over the Solar Poles. Great stuff!

Venus

• Venus attracts sky watchers to hill The "hill" is Signal Hill in St. John's.
• Volcanoes on Venus Well-written. Great images.

Earth and Moon

General

• Earth and Moon Viewer Unique virtual views of both the earth and the moon from space. Site navigation may be a bit of a chore at first. Hang in there!

Earth

Images from Space

• Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth Huge resource. Searchable.
• Sheshatshiu - North West River, Labrador Amazing view of the swirling, underwater sand bars! Click text links for additional views and text.
• Rove.to/ 978 Shuttle images of NEWFOUNDLAND A lot of junk, but some real gems are hidden within!
• Southwestern Newfoundland from the Space Shuttle Nice shot!
• Trepassey, Newfoundland Excellent view of barachois ponds behind wave-formed barrier beaches. Click text links for additional views and text.

Moon

• Google Moon! It had to happen! Be prepared for a surprise at highest resolution! [Requires a recent browser version]
• Inconstant Moon: The Moon at Perigee and Apogee Have you ever noticed that the Moon seems to vary in size over time? Technical, but fascinating.
• Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures You can view the phase of the Moon for any date and time.
• Volcanism on the Moon
• Moon Phase A calendar.

Mars

• Atlas of Mars and Viking Orbiter Image-finder Excellent.
• Daily Martian Weather Report, [The]
• Earth Invades Mars From Space Daily Your Internet Space Portal
• Mars From NASA's Observatorium. Good site.
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission The 2004 rover missions.
• Mars Global Surveyor Still orbiting and sending back great data and pictures. Much stuff!
• Mars Introduction All about Mars. Most impressive! From Views of the Solar System.
• Mars Pathfinder Another good page. However, last update was 25 July, 1997.
• [Mars Picture List] All manner of images of Mars and its two moons.
• Mars Team Online: Field Journal Index A comprehensive Mars site. Have a look.
• Mars Today Daily orbital position, weather [!], etc.
• NSSDC Photo Gallery [The]: Mars From the National [U.S.] Space Science Data Center. Excellent!
• Volcanism on Mars

Jupiter

• Galileo Amazing Facts Interesting trivia about Jupiter and the Galileo spacecraft.
• Hubble Images of Jupiter's Auroras Auroras on Jupiter? But, of course!
• Jupiter Millennium Flyby
• Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter to Earth NASA does it again!

Saturn

• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan From NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

Solar System - General

• Astronomy 161: The Solar System A comprehensive course in solar system astronomy. Excellent.
• Nine Planets [The]: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System Tremendous site! Complete.
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal Super!
• Pioneer Project Home Page Communication with Pioneer 10 concluded at the end of March, 1997. The craft is about the same distance from earth, as the two Voyagers are [see: below]!
• Planets Visible This Month, [The] Concise. Useful.
• Solar System Live An interactive site that gives up-to-the-minute relative positions of the planets! Fairly technical! Lots of numbers.
• Solar System Simulator A NASA/JPL/Caltech spyglass on the cosmos. A mixture of space-related images and programs to help you visualize the Solar System, and NASA space missions, using computer graphics. Want to see what Jupiter looks like from its moon Io, or maybe from its neighbour Saturn, at this very moment, or maybe three months ago? How about a closeup of the surface of the Martian moon Phobos? No problem. Totally awesome!
• Views of the Solar System Awesome photographs; excellent documentation.
• Voyager Project Information As of Dec. 12, 1997, Voyager 1 and 2 were 10.41 and 8.13 BILLION kilometres from Earth, respectively; and both were STILL returning data!
• Welcome to the Planets Profiles of the planets, as well as many of NASA's spacecraft. Super site. From NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

This website is the creation of John E. Maunder, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada.

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