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ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images -- Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory. Visit

SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! -- Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish & Russian. Recommended for kids. Visit

How Stuff Works: Stars -- Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, & death. Includes related links. Visit

Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies -- One enormous page packed with illustrations, diagrams & photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes & galaxies. Visit

Bright Star Catalogue -- Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS & GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers. Visit

Spectra & Spectra Analysis -- A brief over view of what stellar spectra are & how they're used to classify stars. Visit

Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory -- The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions & motions of the stars & planets, mainly to the Defense community. Visit

Laser Star Astrophysics -- Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres. Visit

Space Telescope Science Institute -- A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars. Visit

Cosmobrain -- Lists the fifty brightest stars visible from Earth, & the fifty closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification & other data are provided for each star. Visit

Star Maps -- Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos & Yale bright star maps available. Visit

Summer Sky Tour -- A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky. Visit

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology -- Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars. Visit

Buy a Star, But It is Not Yours -- Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies. Visit

Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors -- Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation & 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 work shops & list of participants. Visit

Stars & Galaxies -- Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, & life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies & related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes. Visit

The Classification of Stellar Spectra -- NASA page explaining the colors & classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, & M) of stars. Visit

The Fifty Brightest Stars -- The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes & spectral classifications. Visit

Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com -- Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart... Visit

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