Astronomy Stuff

Databases Journals/Newsletters Organizations

Astronomical internet resource starting points can be found at:

• STScI (resource list, STEIS, digitized sky survey, PR/Education, ASDS)
• Urania
• NOAO
• Video On Line Astronomy

Astronomical Databases

• The ADS Project at Harvard-CfA/SAO has an excellent abstract service with links to full articles, databases, etc.
• The well-established, well-stocked LANL e-preprint archive arXiv.
• The PrePrint Network managed by the Department of Energy
• The CDS offers numerous databases: Simbad (objects), Vizer (catalogs), Aladin (sky atlas), Star Pages (links to organizations and individual web pages).
• NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database) contains object info and detailed references and notes as well as archived data.
• Published catalogs and data tables can be obtained through the ADC.
• The Multimission Archive at STScI, MAST, archival database interface.
• Space mission data can also be obtained via the NSSDC.
• Planetary Data Systems archive.
• Info and archive of the IAU Circulars (and our local collection of circulars prior to 2016 March and after 2016 March).
• Similarly, there is the Astronomer's Telegram service.
• The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre has Canadian-related stuff including the best up-to-date calibrations of HST Archive Data
• Data images from many sources are obtainable with SkyView.
• Check out the Astronomy Picture of the Day, NASA's ADIL, and NASA's image gallery.
• Tables with atomic data for astrophysics.
• Astrometry made easy with the USNO's AC 2000, ACTand PMM catalogs, and the folks at Lowell provide a nice interface for the PMM via REFNET.
• A searchable database of e-mail addresses of astronomers (although I don't think Shapley or Curtis are listed there).
• Bica & Co's catalogs of clusters, associations and emission nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds.

Electronic Journals and Newsletters

• Annual Reviews: ARAA, AREPS
• A&A Review
• A&A
  • pre-2001Main Journal and Letters (European site).
  • post-2001 Main Journal and Letters (European site)
  • Supplement Series (European site).
• AJ (and their editorial office).
• ApJ (home pages: the Main Journal, the Letters, the Supplements), and the Yellow Pages.
• Icarus
• MNRAS.
• PASP (and their editorial office).
• Astronomy Reports (Astronomicheskii Zhurnal)
• Astronomy Letters (Pisma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal), and here is an alternate(?) page.
• MNRAS (and the editorial office)
• Physics-Astrophysics (Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IV)
• P&SS
• PASA
• PASJ (and the editorial office)
• Science
• Nature
• New Astronomy (a fully-electronic journal)
• Physics Today
• Other journals may be available on campus via Chinook

Abstracts of recently submitted/accepted papers can also be found in the Distant EKOs, Magellanic Cloud, Dwarf Tales, Hot/Massive Star, Star Formation, Standard Star, and the Be Star Newsletters. For more info on TeX and LaTeX, visit the TeX archives.

The Planetary Exploration Newsletter has news items rather than papers.

Astronomy and Physics Organizations, Disorganizations, Groups, & Gangs

• The AAS (American Astronomical Society) and its membership directory, Job Register, and diverse, useful E/PO information.
• The Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• The Lunar and Planetary Institute.
• The AIP (American Institute of Physics), and the AIP News archive.
• NASA information regarding the different centers, their activities, and NASA-related servers.
• Ditto for ESO. Through ESO's ESIS you can search catalogs and abstracts, and get images and spectra.
• The YSN (Young Scientists' Network) - discussion about jobs in the sciences and The Myth, and the AAAS's Science Careers magazine. In a similar vein, CSWA's Women in Astronomy and the 4000 Years of Women in Science pages have lots of links and info regarding women's (and everyone's) issues in science, and Jason Cardelli's ARA info for astronomical agitators.
• SSI focuses on integrating research, education, and outreach. Along that vein, check out the STScI/NASA IDEA program.

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For science education, check out the NASA Teacher Resource Center Network, or the more hip science musings of Beakman and Jax, not to be confused with science made stupid. If you are still confused, ask Dr. Science.

The U. Oregon Physics Department. And other web-candy is supplied by this slick spacecraft monitor.

And, of course, what space-based page would be complete without links to Star Wars or Star Trek (including the infamous Captain James T. Kirk Sing-a-long Page!!)

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeit of our own behavior - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars; as if we were villans by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, theieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence.

--- Shakespeare (King Lear)

Joel Parker (joel@boulder.swri.edu)