- How Stuff Works: Stars - http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
- Stars and Galaxies - http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.
- Star Data Pages - http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
- The Formation of Binary Stars - http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
- University of Vaasa - Star photos - http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifstar.html
Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.
- Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory - http://ad.usno.navy.mil/
The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.
- The Constellations since 1996 - http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
- Star Maps - http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html
Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.
- Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
- BBC Space - Stars - http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml
Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them
- Cosmobrain - http://www.cosmobrain.com/
Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star.
- Bright Star Catalogue - http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.
- Measuring the Stars - http://www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm
In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
- SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! - http://www.spacewander.com
Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids.
- The Fifty Brightest Stars - http://www.cosmobrain.com/cosmobrain/res/brightstar.html
The most visible stars that can be seen by the naked eye from earth. Lists names, positions, distances, magnitudes and spectral classifications.
- Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors - http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/
Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and 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 workshops and list of participants.
- Summer Sky Tour - http://my.execpc.com/60/B3/culp/astronomy/
A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.
- Laser Star Astrophysics - http://laserstars.org/
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.
- White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, And Black Holes - http://www.geocities.com/tonylance/dwarf.html
All-text page on the various stages in the discovery and development of theories of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes.
- The Classification of Stellar Spectra - http://www.shef.ac.uk/physics/people/pacrowther/spectral_classification.html
NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars.
- Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies - http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/gmackie/DarkStar/alpha.html
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
- A Mystery of Space: Stars - http://library.thinkquest.org/25763/
Learn about the fascinating universe, especially stars at this ThinkQuest site. There are two versions of the site to choose from, one for younger kids (under 12), and one for older kids (13 and over).
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