All the following listed sites are checked regularly. However, the constantly changing nature of the internet means some sites may alter after we have visited them.
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Great Astronomical Sites
As featured at our BBC Stargazing Live event...
- Society for Popular Astronomy - a great place to start in astronomy
- Stellarium - A free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
- Google Moon - This tool is an exciting new way to explore the story of the Apollo missions, still the only time mankind has set foot on another world.
- Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD) - Originated, written, coordinated, and edited since 1995 by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell. The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.
- NASA Kids' Club - Jam packed full of fun space information and games for kids.
- HubbleSite - Every Hubble Telescope. Including an amazing archive of beautiful images.
- Universe Today - A great place to find space and astronomy news.
- Heavens Above - The place to calculate the passing of observable satellites. It is worth registering and entering your exact coordinates.
- Mars Exploration Rover Missions - All the information and images straight from all of NASA's Mars rovers as they become public.
- Zooniverse - You may have come across Galaxy Zoo or Planet Hunters. Here is the website for all the Zooniverse public science activities.
Some more websites we love...
Local Astronomical Organisations
Outreach Reference Sites
- Celestia - FREE space travelling software
- Stellarium - FREE planetarium software for your PC
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