Astronomy & Space
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https://daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/A/40_Eridani.html
David Darling's encyclopedia entry on 40 Eridani covers the nearby trinary star system in Eridanus, including its white dwarf, red dwarf, and orange main-sequence components, with detailed discussion of habitability and its famous role as Vulcan's star in Star Trek. Part of a broader astronomy encyclopedia, this page blends rigorous stellar data with engaging science fiction connections, complete with NASA imagery and comparisons to our own solar system's habitable zone.
https://skyhound.com/sh/dso_guide.html
Skyhound's Guide to Deep Sky Objects is a comprehensive reference covering every major category of deep sky objects, from open star clusters and globular clusters to quasars and gravitational lenses. Each section explains what the objects are, how they appear through a telescope, and highlights notable examples like the Veil Nebula, Einstein's Cross, and the Pleiades.
https://projectrho.com/starmap.html
Winchell Chung (aka Nyrath the nearly wise) maintains this ambitious 3-D starmap project dedicated to the golden age of science fiction and real astronomical data. Inspired by E.E. 'Doc' Smith's classic space operas, the site blends scientific accuracy with a deep love of the stars to create interactive three-dimensional maps of nearby stellar neighborhoods.
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https://ap-i.net/skychart//en/start
Skychart, also known as Cartes du Ciel, is a free open-source planetarium program that lets users draw detailed sky charts using star and nebula catalogs while also displaying the positions of planets, asteroids, and comets. This multilingual wiki serves as the official documentation and download hub for the software, supporting Linux, Windows, and macOS with both stable and beta releases.
http://solstation.com/habitable.htm
Sol Station explores the concept of habitable zones around stars, presenting scientific information about which stellar systems might support life. The site offers a visually driven look at astrobiology and planetary habitability, making complex astrophysics accessible to curious visitors.
https://starinabox.net/
Star in a Box is an interactive educational tool from Las Cumbres Observatory that lets you animate and explore the full lifecycle of stars across a range of solar masses using the famous Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Visitors can watch how a star's brightness, size, surface temperature, and mass evolve over billions of years, with downloadable data tables for independent investigation.
http://satobs.org/iridium.html
A detailed reference page dedicated to Iridium satellite flares, covering why and how these spectacular visible reflections occur, flare prediction tools, orbital data, and launch history. It features one of the earliest known photographs of an unpredicted Iridium flare, observation reports, and an extensive directory of related resources for satellite observers.
http://rocklandastronomy.com/
The Rockland Astronomy Club (RAC) is one of the East Coast's premier nonprofit astronomy education organizations, hosting star parties, lectures, dark sky observing sessions, and the renowned Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF). Visitors can find event schedules, observing locations at New York state parks, and information about joining a vibrant community of amateur astronomers.
http://skytour.homestead.com/
Wes's astronomy hub, active since 1995, offers a rich collection of observing logs, sketch galleries, comet documentation, meteor shower reports, and essays drawn from decades of visual astronomy with a 10-inch Dobsonian telescope. Highlights include extensive Oregon Star Party trip reports spanning nearly two decades, comet scrapbooks for Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake, and thoughtful amateur astronomy essays that range from beginner telescope guides to celestial measurement explanations.
http://sunstarfrance.com/
Olly Penrice runs this site combining a French gite rental property called Les Granges with a serious passion for astrophotography in the dark skies of Provence. Visitors can browse astro imaging galleries, explore local cycling and climbing, and even book a stay at the gite to experience the region firsthand.