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ASTR 201 – SPRING 2012

Interesting / Useful web sites

• Science Journals and web sites
  (with articles intended to be accessible to a broad audience)
• Astronomy Picture of the day
• Science Magazine
• Nature
• Physics Today
• Hubble Space Telescope Press Releases
• Science @NASA
• "OBSERVING THE NIGHT SKY" WEBSITES
• Sky View Cafe
• stardate.org
• YourSky
• AstroViewer
• sky charts @wunderground
• Night Sky links @Jodrell Bank Obs.
• Astronomical Almanac @Jodrell Bank Obs.
• MyStarsLive
• Sky above West University [with predictions of Space Station passages and Iridium Flares]
• ASTRONOMY NEWS
• Scientific American
• Sky & Telescope
• Science & Cosmos @NewYorkTimes [free-registration access to current/recent news]
• Space Chronicle @Houston Chronicle
• Space.com (mostly industry news, but some science)
• Science and Tech News
• Science Daily
• Discovery News
• Wired
• Ars Technica
• Science and Space @CNN