Astronomy

General astronomy bookmarks

• The Naked Sky is a quarterly printable description of interesting things in the sky accessible to amateur astronomers and skygazers. Good if you feel like going out and looking up tonight. :-)
• Chris Dolan has some cool astronomy-related Java applets, most notably an interactive sky chart. Also, Aaron Barnett has a similar applet, StarGazer, that uses a different projection.
• Phil Plait's ‘Bad Astronomy’ critiques depictions of astronomy in popular media. He's also got a great archive of his ‘Bitesize Astronomy’ columns, which are fun to browse through.
• Bill Arnette's ‘The Nine Planets’ is a good overview of the solar system.
• Inconstant Moon at http://www.inconstantmoon.com/ has reference material (including an atlas) about the moon. (new)

Space probes and satellites

• 2001 Mars Odyssey
• The Hubble Space Telescope's front page is messed up at the moment, but some of the most impressive pictures are on available on the Hubble Heritage Project site.
• NEAR Shoemaker mission to Eros
• Mars Pathfinder resulted in some amazing photos from the surface, some taken by a rover. (For the pictures, choose the archive of the web site at mission's end.) Some of the pictures are available as 3-D anaglyphs, and one place you can order red-green 3-D glasses from is Rainbow Symphony (http://www.rainbowsymphony.com/). Seeing the pictures in 3-D makes a surprising amount of difference to your ability to interpret the rubble-strewn landscape.
• Mars Global Surveyor
• NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/) is a good place to start to look for information about other space missions.
• The Russian Space Science Internet site is available in English and Russian at http://www.rssi.ru/. They host the site of the Space Research Institute (also available in English).

Crewed spaceflight

• A memorial to astronauts and cosmonauts who died on the job at http://members.aol.com/astromem/. (Not yet updated for the Columbia disaster.) (new)
• NASA's Space Station Science Picture of the Day at http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/. The picture for April 8, 2003, showed how to drink tea with chopsticks.