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Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology (Popularity:  )
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
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Star Maps (Popularity: )
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.
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Star Data Pages (Popularity: )
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. ...
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How Stuff Works: Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
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Cosmobrain (Popularity: )
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.
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The Fifty Brightest Stars (Popularity: )
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.
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University of Vaasa - Star photos (Popularity: )
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.
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Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies (Popularity: )
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/royal_society/alpha/alpha.html
One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
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BBC Space - Stars (Popularity: )
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
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Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com (Popularity: )
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...
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Bright Star Catalogue (Popularity: )
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 ...
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The Formation of Binary Stars (Popularity: )
http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
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Space Telescope Science Institute (Popularity: )
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html
A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
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ESO Photo Gallery - Astronomical Images (Popularity: )
http://www.eso.org/outreach/gallery/astro/
Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.
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Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas (Popularity: )
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
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Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets (Popularity: )
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BAF7C-7457-1C76-9B81809EC588EF21
Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.
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Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours (Popularity: )
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies.
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Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors (Popularity: )
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 ...
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Stability Analysis (Popularity: )
http://stability-analysis.blogspot.com/
Performing stability analysis on a set of ordinary differential equations that govern star formation within a galaxy perturbed by a large influx of hydrogen. Using numerical model simulation to determine ...
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SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! (Popularity: )
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.
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