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Sites in Stars

The Classification of Stellar Spectra
NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars.

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.

Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.

How Stuff Works: Stars
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.

Stars and Galaxies
Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.

Star Data Pages
Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).

The Formation of Binary Stars
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.

University of Vaasa - Star photos
Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.

Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory
The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.

The Constellations since 1996
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.

Space Telescope Science Institute
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.

Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.

Star Maps
Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.

Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com
Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...

BBC Space - Stars
Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them

Cosmobrain
Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star.

Bright Star Catalogue
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.

Measuring the Stars
In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.

Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.

SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip!
Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids.

ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images
Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.

Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets
A Parade of New Planets

The Fifty Brightest Stars
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications.

Spectra and Spectra Analysis: Stars
Includes a section on spectral classification of stars.

Solar and Stellar Seismology
Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition.

Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors
Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.

Scientific American: A Sharper View of the Stars
About a new generation of optical interferometers, which uses two almost identical signals to give more information about these celestial bodies.

Summer Sky Tour
A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.

Laser Star Astrophysics
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.