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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