Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology (Popularity: )
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
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Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies (Popularity: )
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/royal_society/alpha/alpha.html
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
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How Stuff Works: Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
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Stars and Galaxies (Popularity: )
http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of ...
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Star Data Pages (Popularity: )
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple ...
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The Formation of Binary Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
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The Constellations since 1996 (Popularity: )
http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
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Space Telescope Science Institute (Popularity: )
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
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Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas (Popularity: )
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
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Star Maps (Popularity: )
http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html
Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.
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Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com (Popularity: )
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
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BBC Space - Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml
Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just ...
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Cosmobrain (Popularity: )
http://www.cosmobrain.com/
Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral ...
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Bright Star Catalogue (Popularity: )
http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from ...
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Measuring the Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm
In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
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Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours (Popularity: )
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
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SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! (Popularity: )
http://www.spacewander.com
Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, ...
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ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images (Popularity: )
http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
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Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets (Popularity: )
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.
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The Fifty Brightest Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and ...
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