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Laser Star Astrophysics - http://laserstars.org/
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres. |
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How Stuff Works: Stars - http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links. |
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Stars and Galaxies - http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
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. |
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Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/12/49345
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies. |
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The Fifty Brightest Stars - http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications. |
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A Mystery of Space: Stars - http://library.thinkquest.org/25763/
ThinkQuest educational site with one version for kids under 12, and one for older kids and teachers. |
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Bright Star Catalogue - http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
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. |
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Star Data Pages - http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
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). |
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Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors - http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/
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. |
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Cosmobrain - http://www.cosmobrain.com/
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. |
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SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! - http://www.spacewander.com
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. |
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Solar and Stellar Seismology - http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/Level01/seismology/seismology.html
Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition. |
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Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies - http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/DarkStar/alpha.html
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies. |
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Spectra and Spectra Analysis - http://osservareilcielo.astrofili.org/spetring.htm
A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars. |
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Stargazing - A Handbook for Night Sky Tour Guides - http://www.rocketmime.com/astronomy/index.html
A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky. |