Astronomy & Space
396 sites
https://theastronomycafe.net/
An archived recreation of Dr. Sten Odenwald's legendary 'Astronomy Cafe' website from circa 2001, once a destination where a professional astronomer answered thousands of public questions about space, the universe, and infrared astronomy. The site preserves a nostalgic snapshot of early web science outreach, featuring Dr. Odenwald's books, his 'Ask the Astronomer' feature, and philosophical explorations of concepts like 'nothing' and the Big Bang.
https://whatcomastronomy.org/
The Whatcom Association of Celestial Observers (W.A.C.O.) is a community astronomy club founded in 1988 in Bellingham, Washington, dedicated to making amateur astronomy accessible and enjoyable. The site offers a calendar of meetings, member resources, observing programs, photos, and local astronomy links for the Pacific Northwest region.
https://kasonline.org/
The Kalamazoo Astronomical Society (KAS) is the oldest astronomy club in Michigan, welcoming members of all skill levels from casual stargazers to experienced observers. The site offers monthly downloadable all-sky star maps, membership information, and meeting schedules for those looking to explore the night sky with a community.
https://iceinspace.com.au/
IceInSpace is the largest online amateur astronomy community in the Southern Hemisphere, serving over 20,000 registered members across Australia, New Zealand, and South America. The site features astronomy forums, equipment reviews, DIY projects, astrophotography galleries, event reports, and an astronomy glossary tailored to southern hemisphere observers.
https://sites.uni.edu/morgans/astro/course/Notes/section2/spectralmasses.html
A detailed reference table from a university astronomy course listing spectral types of stars across main sequence, giant, and supergiant classifications, with corresponding temperature, absolute magnitude, luminosity, and mass values. Covering everything from scorching O5 stars down to cool T8 brown dwarfs, this page serves as a compact but comprehensive stellar classification resource for students and enthusiasts alike.
http://kstrom.net/isk/stars/starmenu.html
Created by Paula Giese, this richly detailed site explores Native American and Aboriginal astronomy, covering Lakota star knowledge, sacred star maps, medicine wheels as solar-stellar observatories, and indigenous constellation traditions. It serves as an educational hub with links to Lakota theology, archaeoastronomy, star stories, and teacher resources for native-centered science curricula.
https://caacwv.com/
The Central Appalachian Astronomy Club is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in West Virginia dedicated to promoting amateur astronomy and partnering with local schools and universities. Visitors can learn about the club's 20-foot Ash Dome observatory housing a 16-inch Meade LX200 telescope, upcoming meetings and events, and how to join.
https://openphdguiding.org/phd2-log-viewer
PHD2 Guiding is the home of PHD2, a free and open-source autoguiding software used by astrophotographers to keep telescopes precisely locked on celestial targets. This page highlights a log file viewer tool developed by Andy Galasso, which helps users visualize guiding performance and diagnose tracking issues from their PHD2 guide logs.
https://deepimpact.astro.umd.edu/
The official University of Maryland archive for NASA's Deep Impact mission, which sent a spacecraft to collide with comet Tempel 1 in 2005 and later extended its mission as EPOXI to observe comet Hartley 2 and distant exoplanets. The site preserves science results, image and video galleries, team member profiles, and mission history through the spacecraft's final loss of contact in 2013.
https://astronomy-links.net/lifeonwanderingplanets.html
Clark M. Thomas presents a speculative essay on the possibility of life on wandering planets and dark solar systems, drawing on extremophile biology and decades of independent astronomical thinking. The piece weaves together astrophysics, astrobiology, and theology, touching on exoplanets, Europa, HIV research history, and UFOs as part of the author's idiosyncratic intellectual journey.