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  • Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

    Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.

    csep10.phys.utk.edu

  • How Stuff Works: Stars

    Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.

    www.howstuffworks.com

  • 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.

    www.telescope.org

  • 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, period, type of variability).

    www.alcyone.de

  • The Formation of Binary Stars

    Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.

    www.phys.lsu.edu

  • 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.

    ad.usno.navy.mil

  • The Constellations since 1996

    Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.

    www.dibonsmith.com

  • Space Telescope Science Institute

    A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.

    oposite.stsci.edu

  • Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas

    A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.

    www.hawastsoc.org

  • Star Maps

    Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.

    maps.jpl.nasa.gov

  • Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com

    Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...

    www.nationalgeographic.com

  • 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

    www.bbc.co.uk

  • 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.

    www.cosmobrain.com

  • 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, SAO or FK5 numbers.

    www.alcyone.de

  • Measuring the Stars

    In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.

    www.wncc.net

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