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Hipparcos Space Mission - Distance to the Pleiades
The Pleiades "distance problem" was identified shortly after the publication of the Hipparcos Catalogue in 1997, and remains unresolved. |
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Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Mars Home
Updates from the Cassini-Huygens mission from the NASA web site. |
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CICLOPS : Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for OPerations
This is the laboratory which processes images from the Cassini-Huygens mission. |
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Vision System inspects space-shuttle tiles
How a machine vision system was "instrumental" in checking the heat shield tiles in the space shuttle Discovery in August 2005. |
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Guidelines on Low-light Digital Photography
This site provides guidelines on low light digital imagery. |
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Gravity Wells and Orbital Mechanics
An interesting article with a java program on gravitation and how it effects orbital mechanics. |
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Venus Express (View it\'s Highly Elliptic Orbital Path)
This is a java web applet which graphically animates the orbital path of ESA's Venus Express spacecraft around the planet Venus. |
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Satellite Orbits - Gravitational Assist from Planets
An interesting site on using gravitational forces to slingshot spacecraft. |
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Big Bear Solar Observatory
The Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) located in Big Bear Lake, California is operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Good source for solar images. |
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Astronomical to SubAtomic Images of the Complete Scale
This site shows how orders of magnitude in terms of distance relate to real-world objects from astronomical scales to subatomic scales. |
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Kepler and JPL
NASA JPL's site which relates computations of planetary orbits via Kepler's model to the data from JPL's HORIZONS system. |
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Orbiter: Free Space Flight Simulator
A spaceflight simulator. |
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Celestia: Open Source Planetarium Software
Software plots locations of many astronomical objects and man-made objects. |
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A Course on Galileo and Einstein
The course explores two revolutions in our perception of the universe. The first, in which Galileo played the leading role, was the realization that what we see in the heavens -- the moon, the planets, the sun and stars -- are physical objects.The se |
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Space Travel 101 : Fundamentals of Space Travel
A site dedicated to laying out the basics for space travel. |
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Discovering the Universe Web Text
A textbook-driven site with a variety of electronic instructional and learning tools designed to increase your understanding of the subject of astronomy. |
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Deep Space 1 and Temperature Control
Some insights on temperature control and how it relates to the Deep Space 1 NASA mission. |
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The Galileo Project at Rice University
The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Their aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. |
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Galileo : Sidereus Nuncius [Starry Messenger]
Galileo published his initial telescopic astronomical observations in March 1610 in a short treatise entitled Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger). |
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Astrology and Astronomy
Astrology - belief in the physical influence of planetary rays on earth - is one of the most important historical contexts in which astronomy developed. Astrology served as a motivation as well as a means of gainful employment for astronomers. |
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Almagest Planetary Model Animations
Link illustrates ancient planetary orbital models hypothesized by Ptolemy. |
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Star Catalogue of Ptolemy
A complete catalog of stars as listed in Ptolemy's Amalgest. |
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Copernicus : De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]
Scans of the originial work by Copernicus : De revolutionibus orbium coelestium [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres]. Norimbergae: apud Ioh. Petreium, 1543. 6, 196 numbered leaves, tables, diagrams. |
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Tycho Brahe : Astronomiae instauratae mechanica [Instruments for the Restoration of Astronomy]
Astronomiae instauratae mechanica [Instruments for the Restoration of Astronomy]. Noribergae: apud L. Hvlsivm, 1602. 107 unnumbered pages, illustrations, map, plans. |
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European Space Agency
This is the European Space Agency home site, an organization for Europe which analogous to NASA for the USA. |
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