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Department of Experimental Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics Links

There are plenty of good astronomy and astrophysics links on the web and Google may help you find many of them. We are listing some of the most relevant ones here.

Planck poster

eagle nebula Eagle Nebula                         Planck poster

Organisations and Projects

European Space Agency (ESA) http://www.esa.int/
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) http://www.nasa.gov/
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Jodrell Bank, U.K. http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/
List of optical observatories: http://www.wro.org/links/Observatories.htm
List of radio telescopes: http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_radio.html

Photographs

Hubblesite - fantastic astronomy photographs in high resolution: http://hubblesite.org/
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/
Information on the planets, asteroids and meteors: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/

Fun Links

Amazing Space: http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
The Astronomer Café: http://www.astronomycafe.net/
Ask an astronomer: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/
There are many websites with information how to build your own telescope. Two of these are:

http://www.berfield.com/atm.html

http://www.stellafane.com/tm/index.html

 

Last edited: Friday, 07-Nov-2008 11:43:45 GMT

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