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• Astro Web: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet - URL database - Astro Web Consortium.
• Astonomical Data Center - GSFC/NASA.
• Astronomy & Astrophysics at NSSDC - resources, current & past missions - NASA.
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - from NASA
• International Astronomical Union (IAU)
• IAU: The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) - at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
• IAU: Minor Planet Center - information on observing and reporting comets & asteroids.
• Space Telescope Science Institute - Hubble Space Telescope.
• Where Is HST? - current location of Hubble Space Telescope.
• See also: Telescopes, Satellites & Observatories listed below.

• Auroral Acitivity - extrapolated from NOAA POES - SEC/NOAA.
• Bright Satellites Over Washington, D.C. - US Naval Observatory.
• Comet Observation Home Page - NASA/JPL.
• Comets and Meteor Showers
• Online Stargazer Map - from Mount Wilson Observatory.
• SkyView - NASA Virtual Observatory.
• Smithsonian Weekly Skywatcher's Report - NASM Albert Einstein Planetarium.
• Today's Space Weater - solar data - SEC/NOAA.

• Eclipse Home Page - NASA/GSFC
• 1999 Total Solar Eclipse, "This Eclipse Is History" - NASA/MSFC
• Venus Transit 2004 - June 8, 2004

• Planetary Alignments in 2000 Griffith Observatory
• The Grand Alignment of Planets on May 5, 2000 - from BadAstronomy.com
• Planetary Alignments - National Solar Observatory
  SOHO view of planetary alignment
• Mars Approaches Earth - Closest approach on August 27, 2003

• ASCA - Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics.
• Arecibo Observatory
• CHANDRA: X-Ray Observatory - orbital observatory launched from Space Shuttle 7/99.
• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) - NASA/GSFC.
• Deep Space Network Radio Observatory
• FAME (Full-sky Astrometric Mapping Explorer) planned for launch in 2004.
• FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer satellite launched June 24th.
• Hubble Space Telescope (STScI - Space Telescope Science Institute)
• Hubble Telescope Servicing Mission
• W.M. Keck Observatory - Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
• The Kuiper Airborne Observatory - infrared astronomy.
• Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff, Arizona.
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) - operates VLA, VLBA, ALMA, GBT, etc.
• Royal Greenwich Observatory - Greenwich, London.
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Cambridge, MA.
• SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) - Kuiper replacement - NASA/DARA.
• SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - NASA.
• Space InfraRed Telescope Facility - scheduled to launch in 2002.
• U.S. Naval Observatory - Washington, DC.
• X-ray Multi Mirror Telescope Misison - ESA space telescope mission.

• Astro Web
  Registry of Astronomy Internet Servers
• Yahoo: Astronomy
• Yahoo: Astronomy: Observatories
• WWW Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy Online Educational Activities:

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