Astro 18 - UCSC - Spring Quarter 2014

General Astronomy Web Links

Astronomy Reference Sites:

General Astronomy

• Astronomy Picture of the Day Great astronomy photos, new each day
• The Bad Astronomer: Learn the truth about common astronomy misconceptions.
• NASA Kids
• Cosmology
• NASA Missions
• NASA: Space Exploration
• Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics
• Multicultural Resource Guide: Astronomy of Many Cultures

Astronomy News
• Space.Com
• Sky and Telescope Magazine
• Astronomy Magazine
• Space Weather

Specific Topics:

• Constellations and Their Stars

Historical Astronomy

Famous Early Astronomers
• The Galileo Project
• Images of Tycho Brahe
• Biographies of great scientists and mathematicians.

History of Astronomy
• The History of Astronomy Site
• History of Mathematical Astronomy

Orbits and gravity

Newtonian Gravitation and Kepler's Laws

• Neat JAVA Applets illustrating Kepler's Laws
  
• Newtonian Gravitation and the Laws of Kepler
• Gravity and the Laws of Motion
• Spacecraft Trajectories from Newton's Laws
• Web links for understanding orbits, with math
  


Artificial Satellites in Earth Orbit
• Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
• The Satellite Observing Resources Page
• What satellite is overhead right now? (Click on J-Pass 2.5)