Science & Nature
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https://nasawatch.com/
NASA Watch is a long-running independent watchdog site run by Keith Cowing, covering NASA news, policy, personnel changes, and space exploration with a critical insider perspective. With archives stretching back to 1993, it tracks everything from Artemis and ISS developments to congressional oversight and agency politics.
http://inconstantmoon.com/
Inconstant Moon offers nightly multimedia tours of the lunar surface, complete with maps, photos, animations, and music to guide both beginners and experienced observers through the Moon's craters, seas, and phenomena. A Scientific American Sci/Tech Web Awards honoree and BBC Space featured site, it includes a Cyclopedia Selenica and Selenographia making it a comprehensive reference for lunar astronomy.
https://ve7sar.blogspot.com/
The digital home of the SARC Communicator, the newsletter of Surrey Amateur Radio Communications (VE7SAR) based in Surrey, BC, Canada. Each issue is packed with homebrew projects, DX expedition reports, radio history features, and equipment reviews, making it a rich resource for ham radio enthusiasts of all experience levels.
https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
StarChild is NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center educational resource designed to introduce young astronomers ages 5-13 to the solar system, the Milky Way, and the broader universe. Organized into two skill levels, the site covers topics from comets and black holes to galaxies and space terminology, making complex astronomical concepts accessible to children.
https://itis.gov/
ITIS is the official Integrated Taxonomic Information System, a partnership between U.S. federal agencies and global specialists providing authoritative scientific names and taxonomic classifications for plants, animals, fungi, and microbes worldwide. Researchers and biodiversity professionals can search by common name, scientific name, or TSN identifier, access hierarchical taxonomic reports, and download the full database for integration into their own projects.
http://astronautica.com/owds.html
Other Worlds, Distant Suns, maintained by Garber Astronautics, is a detailed catalog of extrasolar planets featuring individual pages for dozens of star systems like 51 Pegasi, Gliese 876, and upsilon Andromedae. The site stands out for its interactive VRML 3D visualizations of extrasolar systems, observing guides for both celestial hemispheres, and curated links to leading researchers like Geoff Marcy and Jean Schneider.