Astronomy

General astronomy bookmarks

• Chris Dolan has some cool astronomy-related Java applets, most notably an interactive sky chart.
• Phil Plait's ‘Bad Astronomy’ (new URL) started out critiquing depictions of astronomy in popular media, but has morphed into a general astronomy blog. There's an archival site with his older columns here (new working URL). He's also got a great archive of his ‘Bitesize Astronomy’ columns, which are fun to browse through.
• Bill Arnette's ‘The Nine Planets’ (new URL) is a good overview of the solar system.
• Mike Brown’s Planets is a blog by a CalTech astronomer who has discovered lots of trans-Neptunian objects. (new)
• Inconstant Moon at http://www.inconstantmoon.com/ has reference material (including an atlas) about the moon.

Space probes and satellites

• 2001 Mars Odyssey
• The Hubble Space Telescope (new URL)
• NEAR Shoemaker mission to Eros
• Mars Pathfinder (new URL) resulted in some amazing photos from the surface, some taken by a rover.
• 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).