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Laser Star Astrophysics - http://laserstars.org/
Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres. |
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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. |
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Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours - http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/12/49345
Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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A Mystery of Space: Stars - http://library.thinkquest.org/25763/
ThinkQuest educational site with one version for kids under 12, and one for older kids and teachers. |
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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). |
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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. |
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Solar and Stellar Seismology - http://www.ap.stmarys.ca/~guenther/Level01/seismology/seismology.html
Explains the study of a star's oscillations to determine the interior chemical composition. |