European Southern Observatory and Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility Archive   The ESO/ST-ECF Archive group is providing the following services to the astronomical community: Storage and Redistribution of the ESO/NTT telescope data. Storage and Redistribution of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Distribution of a large number of astronomical catalogues

NASA photo guidelines

NASA Planetary Data System Microwave Subnode   Located at the Center for Space Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, USA. A subsidiary of the Geosciences Node of NASA's Planetary Data System.
NASA Space Technology. Instrument and Sensing Technology Planetary Tour Guide   Welcome to the Planetary Tour Guide. Several locations have nice tours of the solar system or a particular planet (including earth) that include images. Another excellent page, organized in a similar manner to this page (and probably more up-to-date) is Planets, the Solar System from the Galaxy Page maintained by the University of Arizona SEDS (Students for the Exploration And Development of 

National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO - Web)   National Optical Astronomy Observatories NOAO Long Range Plan 2000A Proposal Queue Status NOAO Image Gallery Press Releases Media Resources NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AURA Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation 

National Space Science Data Center  

The Simbad Astronomical Database   The SIMBAD astronomical database, created and maintained by the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies. ...
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SPACE.com   Space news, games, entertainment, and science fiction.
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Williams College Astronomy Department   Why is the sky dark at night? What are those mysterious twinkling lights that dot the nighttime sky? What is Earth's place in the universe? Astronomy is the science that asks and tries to answer questions like these. 

Touchdown on Eros
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/near/010212snapshots/157417198.html
"Spacecraft Makes Historic First-Ever Asteroid Landing" [RealPlayer,
QuickTime, Windows Media Player]
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/nearlanding_preview_010212.html
NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission completed an
important task : landing on an asteroid. Eros is the name of the asteroid successfully
targeted by the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft. The craft has orbited Eros
for one year, gathering the most detailed profile yet of a small
celestial body and collecting ten times more data than originally
planned. At the first site above, Spaceflight Now provides a picture
of the craft's last view before landing, taken a mere 420 feet from
Eros' surface. Other snapshots from this historic event include a
150-foot-wide boulder on the asteroid and a view of the Eros horizon.
Space.com also has images from this week's landing plus an exciting,
high-resolution video of the October 2000 flyby (users choose
RealPlayer, QuickTime, or Windows Media Player).

Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2002
http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/astron2002/almanac_index_e.htm

The Hong Kong Observatory is a department of the Government of the Hong Kong
and provides various timely meteorological data to the public. The Almanac
2002 page contains information in sections specific to Hong Kong, like Times
of Rise and Set of the Sun and Planets at Hong Kong, and worldwide
information, like sections named World Map of Time Zones and Climatological
Normals of Some Selected Cities.

Understanding the Universe [RealPlayer]
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/universe/

The Understanding the Universe Web site is part of Discovery.com's excellent
educational resource DiscoverySchool.com site and is a joint effort with the
American Museum of Natural History. This attractive site contains three
major sections. The It's Awesome page has a time line of the universe that
links to the Universe in One Year page -- a great way of learning the
difficult concept of geologic time by showing that, if the history of the
universe was compressed into one year, modern humans wouldn't appear until
11:54pm on December 31. The Galaxy Tour section contains descriptions of the
Milky Way and other galaxies, and provides questions that are answered via
RealPlayer audio files by Frank Summers, an expert from the American Museum
of Natural History . Finally, the StarGazers section highlights pioneers in
the study of our Universe, such as Copernicus and Einstein. For educators,
the Teacher's Tip link gives a suggested grade level of 5-8 and describes
how to use the Web site most effectively.

Earth Like a Puzzle [Flash]
http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/voyager/earth_puzzle/

Presented by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Earth Like a Puzzle
Web site gives a visually interesting and easy-to-follow description of
plate tectonics, the geologic theory that explains how the continents and
oceans move across the surface of the planet. A highlight of the site, the
Recycling Plates page contains an interactive map of the earth, where users
can click to view the locations of tectonic plates, spreading centers, and
their relationship to volcanoes and earthquakes. Although brief, the site
does a good job of explaining this geologic phenomenon in a way that anyone
can understand and enjoy.

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