Astronomy

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Subject Directories

• Internet Public Library > Astronomy
• PhysLink > Physics & Astronomy Reference
• PSIGate > Astronomy Gateway

Internet Sites

• AbsoluteAstronomy - basic information and images of the planets, moons, constellations, stars, Messier objects, nebulae, and galaxies
• Hubblesite - the Hubble Space Telescope
• NASA History and NASA Human Space Flight and NASA Lunar and Planetary Science
• Space Calendar - space-related events from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Stanford Solar Center  - solar online activity resources
• Students for the Exploration of Space (SEDS) > Constellations and Nine⁸ Planets: a Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
• Windows to the Universe - graphics-intensive site for different levels of  users

Textbook Sites

• Discovering the Universe - W.H.Freeman  for GSC 1580

Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• General Science Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Science Direct (Elsevier)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
  • astronomy -- charts, diagrams, etc.
  • cosmology
  • Galilei, Galileo
  • supernovae

• Selected Reference Books
  • Burnham, Robert, Jr.  Burnham's celestial handbook : an observer's guide to the Universe beyond the solar system.  New York : Dover Publications, 1978.
         AH, OR, RO  Reference QB 64 .B85 1978  

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
   
  • QB  40-237  Practical and spherical astronomy
  • QB 349-421  Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics
  • QB 460-466  Astrophysics
  • QB 495-991  Descriptive astronomy
  • TL 787-4050  Astronautics

See also: Sciences

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