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The Solar System
General Information
Abrams Planetarium,
Michigan State University.
Includes a sky watcher's diary, a sky calendar, and more.
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL.
Astronomy Picture of the Day was created by two professional astronomers. It has won numerous awards, including the 1995 NASA Cool Site of the Year.
Ask the Astronomer
Questions are answered and archived by Dr. Sten Odenwald, an astronomer employed at
Raytheon.
Astronomy
Links
Maintained by Awesome Library for Teens
Color Pictures from NASA
"Browse Image Archive"
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Galaxy
Tour: An Exploration with the American Museum of Natural History
Sponsored by Discovery Channel School
Meteorites: A Piece from Other Worlds
"NEMS Meteorites and Planetary Science"
Russell W. Kempton, Director, New England Meteoritical Services
NASA Kids: Space and
Beyond
Sponsored by the Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA TV on the Web
A list of organizations that provide live video streams and webcasts of NASA events.
*******Solar
System: from KidsAstronomy.com**********
Learn about the planets, the sun, the moons around our solar system, and the
astroids and comets from this award winning site.
Windows to the Universe
Funded by NASA and sponsored by the University of Michigan
The Constellations
Constellations
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London
Constellations
A Celestial Atlas by Franz Niklaus Konig (1826)
Portrait of
Stars and their Constellations
Created by Jim Kaler, Professor of Astronomy, University of Illinois
The Constellations provides a
table of 48 constellations, including their meaning, location, references to mythology.
The Shape of our Night Sky contains a table of constellation information and a map of the sky.
CleverMedia: The Constellations
The Mythology of the Constellations
Constellation
List by A. Lesikar, Physics Dept. St. Cloud State University
Explains the myths behind the constellations in this "Dome of the Sky" web site.
The Planets
The Nine
Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
William A. Arnett
Welcome to the Planets
A collection of images from NASA.
NASA's Planetary
Photojournal
Publicly released images from various Solar System exploration programs.
Planetary Fact Sheets
Information provided by NASA
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