ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images
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Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
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SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip!
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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.
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How Stuff Works: Stars
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Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, & death. Includes related links.
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Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies
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One enormous page packed with illustrations, diagrams & photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes & galaxies.
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Bright Star Catalogue
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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.
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Spectra & Spectra Analysis
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A brief over view of what stellar spectra are & how they're used to classify stars.
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Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory
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The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions & motions of the stars & planets, mainly to the Defense community.
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Laser Star Astrophysics
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Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
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Cosmobrain
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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.
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Star Maps
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Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos & Yale bright star maps available.
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Summer Sky Tour
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A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.
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Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
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Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
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Buy a Star, But It is Not Yours
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Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
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Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors
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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.
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Stars & Galaxies
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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.
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The Classification of Stellar Spectra
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NASA page explaining the colors & classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, & M) of stars.
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The Fifty Brightest Stars
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The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes & spectral classifications.
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Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com
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Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
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