- Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle (AFOE)
Spectrograph designed specifically to perform precise stellar radial velocity measurements, and optimized for asteroseismology and extrasolar planet detection.
cfa-www.harvard.edu/afoe
- Astrographic Catalogue
Reference catalogue giving measurements and positions of stars brighter than 11th magnitude. Produced by the U.S. Naval Observatory and Copenhagen University Observatory.
ad.usno.navy.mil/proj/AC
- Birthday Stars
Tell the Birthday Stars computer when you were born, and it will look for a star that is your age in light years away from Earth.
outreach.jach.hawaii.edu/birthstars
- Cepheid Distance Scale: A History
Critical review of the Cepheid distance scale, from its inception to the Hipparcos mission and beyond.
www.institute-of-brilliant-failures.com/index.htm
- Genesis Mission@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Sun/Genesis_Mission
- Georgia State University: RECONS
The Research Consortium on Nearby Stars, which aims to study the Sun's nearest stellar neighbors through astrometric, photometric, and spectrometric techniques.
www.chara.gsu.edu/RECONS
- Great World Wide Star Count
Larn about the Great World Wide Star Count, the international event that encourages everyone to go outside, look skywards after dark, count the stars they see in certain constellations, and report what they see online.
www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/starcount
- Imagine the Universe: Stars
Life cycle, stellar evolution, and structure of a star.
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/stars.html
- Magnetars and Soft Gamma Repeaters
Information on these very strong magnetic fields.
solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/magnetar.html
- Olbers' Paradox (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Stars/Olbers__Paradox
- Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE)
Learn about the ambitious program to conduct a survey to measure the radial velocities, metallicities, and abundance ratios for up to a million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO).
www.rave-survey.aip.de/rave
- Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) (3)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Stars/Rossi_X_ray_Timing_Explorer__RXTE_
- RX J1856.5-3754 and 3C58: Cosmic X-rays May Reveal New Form of Matter
Images and information from the Chandra X-ray Observatory about the stars which may be composed of free quarks or crystals of sub-nuclear particles.
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0211
- SPACE.com: Star, Stars, Constellations
Star news, images, video simulations, links, and more.
www.space.com/stars
- Star Journey
Journey through the stars with National Geographic. Includes a Star Chart with overlays of images from the Hubble Telescope.
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
- Stars: Portraits of Stars and Their Constellations
Profiles of stars and their constellations. Created by Jim Kaler, Professor of Astronomy, University of Illinois.
www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow
- SuperWASP
Ultra-wide angle photometric survey of bright stars designed to detect planetary transits and track Near-Earth Objects and optical transients.
www.superwasp.org
- Wikipedia: Star
Article covering the scientific aspects of stars, including designations, measurement, formation, characteristics, struccture, and more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star
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