Earth & Space Sciences: Astronomy & Astrophysics Web Sites

Presented by NASA

A collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet, maintained by the AstroWeb Consortium

"This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like", designed by Richard Powell.

Web site of the organization that builds and operates a suite of the world's most advanced ground-based astronomical telescopes

A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.From the Library of Congress.

Information portal about the telescope that uses the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum, from the European Space Agency and NASA

Lots of information and images about the Hubble Space Telescope and astronomy, from NASA

Official source for original data, publications, mission information, and educational resources on the search for planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy, from NASA Ames Research Center.

A service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA's images, videos and audio collections

An on-line astronomical database operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, under contract with NASA. It collates and cross-correlates astronomical information on extragalactic objects (galaxies, quasars, radio, x-ray and infrared sources, etc.)

This website is the public search interface of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Planetary Image Archive.

Web site of the world's largest space interest group

"One-stop-shop for astronomy news" created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Astronomical Union

a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.

The leading source of online space news

Forecasts of solar flares and geomagnetic storms, plus daily animations of the sun.

This guide is not meant to be a comprehensive or scholarly introduction to the complex topic of the role of women in astronomy, but simply a resource for those educators and students who wish to explore the challenges and triumphs of women of the past