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Astronomy-Related Links
Citizen Scientists Opportunities
- Agent Exoplanet
- Galaxy Zoo
- Planet Hunters
- "Zooniverse" - The homepage for some of the above opportunities and others.
Cool Visualizations
- Asteroid Discovery: YouTube Video illustrating the discovery of asteroids in the Solar System. There are a lot!
- Habitable Zone Gallery: visualize the orbits of exoplanetary systems relative to the zone where water may be present in liquid form
- Nova Celestia: A collection of free Space Art (hosted by the artist).
- Scale of the Universe: an interactive tool that lets you scroll through every physically meaningful length scale!
Observing Tools
- Echelle Flux Standards:
- JSkyCalc: a web application or downloadable program for planning observations.
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database for finding stars and the associated SimPlay for plotting targets
- Telluric Standard Stars - search by position on the sky.
Pictures
- APOD: No astro-related list would be complete without a link to the Astronomy Picture of the Day
