Astrology: Stars

Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.

Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.

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.

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).

Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.

Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.

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.

Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.

A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.

A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.

Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.

Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...

Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them

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.

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.

Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.

Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids.

A Parade of New Planets

The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications.

Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.

About a new generation of optical interferometers, which uses two almost identical signals to give more information about these celestial bodies.

A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.

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