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| The SETI Institute serves as a home for scientific research in the general field of Life in the Universe with an emphasis on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). | |
| Service which allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centres and programs. | ||
| A computing facility for UK astronomers, funded by PPARC. | ||
| Gateway for astronomers to search for astronomical objects in multiple catalogues, including high energy data, Optical / UV, Infrared, and Radio / Microwave data catalogues. | ||
| A set of images taken by amateur and professional astronomers before, during, and after the collision of over twenty fragments of comet Shoemaker Levy 9 with the planet Jupiter in July 1994. | ||
| PPARC supports UK research into the fundamental nature of the Universe, theoretical and experimental research into elementary particles and the fundamental forces of nature, planetary and solar research including space physics and astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. | ||
| Thesaurus intended to standardise terminology in the field of astronomy to aid unambiguous library cataloguing and more precise recall of data. Provides astronomy librarians and scientists with a context for astronomical terms with which they may not be familiar. Available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. | ||
| Guide to prehistoric monuments in Scotland, dating to the Neolithic or the Bronze Age, which have orientations to the sun, moon or stars. Includes background information on archaeoastronomy and a listing of monuments which can be visited. | ||
| Scheme designed to classify and categorise the literature of physics and astronomy for materials such as journal subject indexes, catalogues, computerised databases, online journals, CD ROM versions of journals, and any other collection of physics and astronomy resources. PACS is arranged hierarchically, by subdivision to four levels. | ||
| Library and archives of the ROE which possesses one of the most comprehensive collections of astronomical literature in existence. Site includes information about the library, access to the catalogue, links to other astronomy resources and libraries and to electronic journals. | ||
| NASA funded project whose main resource is three sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing 240,000 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 460,000 abstracts; and 3) physics and geophysics, containing 220,000 abstracts. | ||
| The SIMBAD astronomical database brings together basic data, cross identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies. | ||
| Details of research activities, programs, projects, laboratories and services in x ray astronomy, including a picture gallery, data and images from the ROSAT satellite. Most information is available in English and German. | ||
| Published proceedings, background information and educational material on four debates between leaders in the astronomy community: The Scale of the Universe (Curtis and Shapley, 1920), The Distance Scale to Gamma ray Bursts (Paczynski and Lamb, 1995), The Scale of the Universe (Tammann and van den Bergh, 1996) and The Nature of the Universe (Peebles and Turner, 1998). | ||
| The Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories at Jodrell Bank are home to some of Britain's major astronomical research facilities, including the 76 metre Lovell Telescope, and MERLIN, a synthetic-aperture radio telescope operated on behalf of PPARC. | ||
| Document summaries, research papers, datasets, and news about pulsar research. | ||
| Offers access to images from various solar system exploration programs. Provides images of each planet in the solar system taken from a number of different spacecraft and instruments, presented as thumbnails and in full resolution TIFF format. | ||
| Collection of images of specific portions of the night sky, searchable by coordinates, scale, and orientation via non astronomer, basic, advanced, and Java interfaces. Incorporates a dictionary for those with minimul knowledge of astronomy. | ||
| A collection of over 107,000 spectral images, including ultraviolet observations of every kind of object from planets to quasars over the years 1978 to 1996. Data may be obtained from the catalogue by file transfer. | ||
| Links to and descriptions of astronomy resources including journals, preprints, newsletters and thesis material. | ||
| A consortium of educational and other non profit institutions that operates astronomical observatories. Aims to serve the astronomical community by providing modern facilities to qualified scientists in all universities. | ||
| Project group using infrared technology to scan the skies to create a complete celestial census. Contains data sets, factual documents, images, and links to other similar projects. | ||
| Collection of images of gaseous nebulae. Each image is complemented by descriptive text, including details such as the type of nebula, and its distance from Earth. | ||
| Information about NASA's Observatory launched in July 1999 to observe X rays from high energy regions of the universe. Includes photographs, a guide to x-ray astronomy and sources, resources for teachers, parents and students, interactive games, and an archive of press releases and images. | ||
| A collection of laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants and experiments in the areas of physics and astronomy, arranged alphabetically. | ||
| Alphabetical listing of links to over 400 university astronomy departments and projects. | ||
| A data centre dedicated to the collection and worldwide distribution of astronomical data and related information. | ||
| Presents electronic versions of 10 volumes of star parallax data and calculations produced by the Allegheny Observatory between 1910 and 1969. Reports are searchable and browsable, and contain tables of data, information on methodology of astronomical observations, presentations of new modes of calculation of star positions, and descriptions of observational instrumentation. | ||
| Includes information on supernovas, X ray binaries, black holes, and the research programme. | ||
| Information on the phenomena occasionally observed at sunrise and sunset when a part of the sun suddenly changes colour. Includes photographs, simulations, explanations, advice on how best to see one, and facts debunking common misconceptions about green flashes. Also contains an annotated bibliography on green flashes, mirages, and other low sun phenomena. | ||
| Extensive index and collection of documents about the history of astronomy, including biographies of hundreds of astronomers. | ||
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