Astronomy & Space
390 sites
http://telescope.livjm.ac.uk/
The official homepage of the Liverpool Telescope, a 2.0 metre fully robotic observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma, owned and operated by Liverpool John Moores University. Visitors can find technical guidance on applying for observing time, access data archives, browse recent astronomical discoveries, and follow live telescope status updates.
https://solarviews.com/eng/mars.htm
Calvin J. Hamilton's comprehensive Mars reference page covers everything from the planet's geology and atmosphere to its moons, polar regions, and exploration missions like Viking, Pathfinder, and the Mars Rovers. Packed with images, animations, 3D galleries, and scientific articles, it serves as a deep-dive educational hub for anyone fascinated by the Red Planet.
https://naa.net/
The Nürnberger Astronomische Arbeitsgemeinschaft (NAA) is a German astronomy club based in Nuremberg that operates the Regiomontanus Observatory, offering public sky tours twice a week and maintaining a library of over 1600 books. The site covers club activities, upcoming events, an astronomical image gallery, and the club's own journal 'Regiomontanusbote', making it a rich hub for amateur astronomy in the Nuremberg region.
https://inter-sol.org/
The INTER-SOL Programme (ISP), run by Volkssternwarte Paderborn e.V. in Germany, is an international citizen science initiative coordinating daily sunspot observations by amateur and professional astronomers since 1977. The site offers fundamentals about the sun, methods of sunspot counting and registration, an observers network, photo galleries, and INTER-SOL data archives, all presented in both English and German.
http://skymaps.com/
Skymaps.com, created by Kym Thalassoudis, offers free monthly sky maps and star charts in PDF format to help amateur and professional skywatchers explore constellations, planets, and comets. The site also features a curated store with planispheres, star atlases, telescopes, and astronomy books for all skill levels.
https://avastronomyclub.org/
The Antelope Valley Astronomy Club (AVAC) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982 to share the wonders of the night sky with families in northeastern Los Angeles County. Members range from beginners to advanced observers, and the club offers monthly meetings, school presentations, observing programs, and resources like telescope guides and DSO observing lists.
https://spacew.com/
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch is a 36-year-old space weather service offering near real-time auroral activity mosaics, solar wind data, X-ray flux readings, and experimental flare prediction heatmaps updated every two minutes. Visitors can track geomagnetic conditions, monitor the electrical power grid demand, and view stunning satellite imagery of aurora activity over both hemispheres.
https://nzastronomy.co.nz/directory
The New Zealand Astronomy Directory is a comprehensive curated guide to stargazing operators, observatories, and dark sky experiences across New Zealand, from Qualmark-approved planetariums to guided night sky tours on Stewart Island. Visitors can browse listings by region to find observatories, astrophotography tours, and dark sky places throughout both the North and South Islands.
https://shallowsky.com/jupiter.html
Akkana Peck's Juplet page offers a Java applet and JavaScript tool for tracking the positions of Jupiter's four Galilean moons, their shadows, and the Great Red Spot in real time. A labor of love rooted in real astronomical calculations from Jean Meeus' algorithms, the page also includes telescope sketches, links to Jupiter observation resources, and satellite event data.
https://sostrata.neocities.org/sostratapersonal
Elia Rowan's personal site is a rich mix of worldbuilding and space enthusiasm, featuring original fictional universes, a Kerbal Space Program journal, and a playful page about Venus alongside creative writing projects. The site has a distinctly old-web feel with hundreds of collected blinkies, stamps, and web badges alongside deep speculative content about the structure of imagined cosmologies.