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Star Journey
Journey through the stars, view the nighttime sky using the star chart, with overlays of Hubble Space Telescope images. Visit the Star Attractions highlights of the heavens or take a look at the ...
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Why is the sky dark at night?
If you think the answer to this question is obvious, think again. The best minds of physics have studied this question for over a century, and the current answer may surprise you!
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Auroras - paintings in the sky
A beautifully illustrated site with detailed but straightforward explanations of the Aurora phenomena with links and teachers' notes
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Your sky map
Excellent site allowing you to customise sky maps for own location and date. Outstanding site: very useful if observing the sky for homework.
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The constellations and their stars
What are constellations? Looking at constellations, interactive sky charts and much more. A very comprehensive site, with a lot of info for amateur/serious astronomers.
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An Earth in Space Monthly Astronomy Newsletter
A useful astronomy based site for finding what is visible in the night sky at 40 degrees (N) latitude. Useful links to other sites.
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The Digitized Sky Survey
The Digitized Sky Survey comprises a set of all-sky photographic surveys in E, V, J, R and N bands conducted with the Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes.
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Sky View
Sky View is a virtual observatory on the net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from radio to gamma ray.
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Science Rules
SpaceScience.com features daily news about NASA research, live sky events, space weather, and opportunities for our readers to participate in real NASA science.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
Astronomy resources with digitalized sky survey, specta of nearby galaxies, star catalogues and Hubble images.
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