Astronomy & Space
396 sites
https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html
Created by Josh Worth, this site presents a scale model of the solar system where the Moon is reduced to a single pixel, requiring visitors to scroll endlessly through vast empty space to appreciate the true distances between planets. The experience is both humbling and educational, with witty commentary along the way and the ability to toggle between kilometers, miles, AU, and other quirky units of measurement.
http://bas-astro.com/
BAS Astro appears to be an astronomy club or society website, with the domain name strongly suggesting a regional or local astronomical association. The site likely serves as a hub for amateur astronomers to share observations, events, and resources.
http://uvaa.org/
The Utah Valley Astronomy Association (UVAA) is an informal stargazing club based in Utah Valley, founded in the early 1990s by Rich Tenney and maintained online by Paul Witte, offering a community for observational astronomy enthusiasts with no dues or obligations. The site preserves the club's history and hosts a notable Binocular Astronomy Resource Page, along with links to star parties, a member gallery, and connections to other Utah astronomy societies.
https://lavcastrogroup.org/planetariumshowsched.htm
The LAVC Astronomy Group's planetarium schedule page lists public show dates for Spring 2020, covering topics like the search for extraterrestrial life, black holes, and spring constellations. Each event is held at the campus observatory and includes telescope viewing through a Celestron 16-inch instrument after the show, making it a hands-on community astronomy experience.
http://billsnyderastrophotography.com/
Bill Snyder's astrophotography site showcases an extensive gallery of deep-sky images including nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters captured from his personal and shared observatories in Pennsylvania. The collection includes several NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) winners and is organized into detailed categories covering narrowband, RGB, and HaRGB imaging techniques.
https://mvas-ny.org/
The Mohawk Valley Astronomical Society (MVAS) has been connecting amateur astronomers in Central New York since 1989, offering public stargazing events, monthly meetings, and access to the Barton-Brown Observatory. The site includes astro photos, beginner tips, a newsletter archive, and a full schedule of club events and star parties for members and the public alike.
https://ing.iac.es/Astronomy/telescopes/int
The official site for the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), a major optical telescope operated by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Visitors can explore telescope instruments, apply for observing time, access data archives, check object visibility tools, and browse publications from this working research facility.
http://nefariousplots.com/figures/4
An interactive data visualization called 'The Population of Space' charts every human spaceflight from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 through 2014, grouping missions by launch vehicle and coloring them by historical era. Created in honor of the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11, it offers a fascinating way to explore how long humans have spent in space, which nations sent them, and how the shift from Soviet stations to the International Space Station shaped our continuous presence off-world.
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://gothosenterprises.com/black_holes
Jillian's Guide to Black Holes is an informal yet thorough educational resource originally written as a university physics project at Syracuse University, covering black hole formation, classifications, accretion disks, Hawking radiation, wormholes, and how to locate black holes across the universe. Written by Jillian in an approachable, conversational style, it stands out for its careful citations, multilingual reach (including a Basque translation), and years of ongoing updates beyond its academic origins.