Stars
Categories
- Binary Stars (13)
- Dwarf Stars (12)
- Names (4)
- Neutron Stars (22)
- Novae and Supernovae (13)
- Stellar Evolution (10)
- Variable Stars (12)
Links
Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies
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.
How Stuff Works: Stars
http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
Stars and Galaxies
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 galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.
Star Data Pages
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 star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
The Formation of Binary Stars
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
University of Vaasa - Star photos
http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifstar.html
Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.
Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory
The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.
The Constellations since 1996
http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
Space Telescope Science Institute
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
Star Maps
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.
Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com
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...
BBC Space - Stars
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 looking at them
Cosmobrain
Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star.
Bright Star Catalogue
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.

