Astronomy & Space
396 sites
https://astronomy-links.net/MarsColonies.html
Clark M. Thomas presents a critical essay arguing against the viability and ethics of Mars colonization, countering popular arguments with Malthusian population theory and opportunity cost reasoning. The piece challenges billionaire-backed space colony fantasies by urging focus on Earth's existing ecological and humanitarian crises instead.
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://phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
Created by Dr. David P. Stern, 'From Stargazers to Starships' is a comprehensive web-based textbook covering astronomy, Newtonian mechanics, the Sun, and spaceflight at a high school level. The site includes glossaries, timelines, Q&A sections, lesson plans, and supplementary materials for educators, making it a rich self-contained learning resource with a strong historical perspective.
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://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_1973_GoogleMapFull.html
Xavier Jubier's interactive Google Map documents the path and details of the June 30, 1973 total solar eclipse over Mauritania, offering a precise geographic visualization of this historical celestial event. The map-based format makes it easy to explore the eclipse's path of totality across the region with geographic context.
http://astronomyboy.com/
Jeff DeTray's AstronomyBoy.com is a rich resource for amateur astronomers covering everything from beginner telescope guides to DIY barn door trackers, homemade eyepieces, and mount repair tutorials. The site features constellation portraits, a deep sky observing list, eclipse photography tips, and detailed walkthroughs of equatorial mount mechanics, all drawn from Jeff's personal experience at his Black Swamp Observatory.
http://aerith.net/index.html
Seiichi Yoshida's comprehensive comet resource site offers extensive catalogs, weekly bright comet updates, light curves, and thousands of photographs tracking comets from around the world. Yoshida is a notable amateur astronomer who even had a minor planet named after him, and his MISAO project leverages global imagery to detect and track remarkable astronomical objects.
http://lightandmatter.com/binosky/binosky.html
BinoSky, created by Benjamin Crowell, is a comprehensive guide to stargazing with binoculars, organizing the best celestial objects to observe by region of sky and season. Visitors will find detailed entries on open clusters, globular clusters, nebulae, and galaxies visible through binoculars, complete with sky maps and a data table compiled by SEDS contributor Hartmut Frommert.
https://asnsw.com/
The Astronomical Society of NSW (ASNSW) is a membership-based club for amateur and professional astronomers in New South Wales, Australia, offering meetings, star parties, astroimaging groups, and access to a dedicated dark-sky observing site called Wiruna near Ilford. Members enjoy a monthly journal called UNIVERSE, public outreach events, online learning resources, and coverage of upcoming celestial events including the Total Solar Eclipse of 2028.
http://atlasoftheuniverse.com/
Created by Richard Powell, this stunning educational site presents nine nested maps of the universe, each roughly ten times the scale of the previous, zooming out from the nearest stars to the entire visible universe 14 billion light years away. Multilingual and richly illustrated, it offers a rare sense of cosmic scale that makes abstract astronomical distances genuinely comprehensible.