Featured Sites Archives – 2007
| Week of | Site |
| December 31, 2007 | Exploring Planets in the Classroom |
| December 24, 2007 | NASA Kids |
| December 17, 2007 | SETI Institut – Search for extraterrestrial intelligence |
| December 10, 2007 | Interactive Mars Habitat |
| December 3, 2007 | Cosmic Evolution: From Big Bang to Humankind |
| November 26, 2007 |
Stellarium – Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for
your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see
with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Morgantown, West Virginia Coordinates: (39.633696, -79.950670) |
| November 19, 2007 | Lunar Eclipse Computer |
| November 12, 2007 | Shoreline Amateur Astronomical Association |
| November 5, 2007 | Amazing Space – students can use Web-based activities to learn about the solar system, train to be a scientist, follow a star’s life cycle, and more. |
| October 29, 2007 | Cool Cosmos – Learn about infrared light through fun games, cool movies, images, and more. Classroom activities and a Spanish-language version of the site are also available. |
| October 22, 2007 | Stanford Solar Folklore |
| October 15, 2007 | PlanetQuest – the search for another Earth |
| October 8, 2007 | Ask Dr Universe – the world’s most curious cat answers kid’s questions about the universe. Dr. Universe answers some of life’s most confounding questions. |
| October 1, 2007 | Technology Review – MIT’s magazine of innovation. |
| September 24, 2007 | Nature – international weekly journal of science. |
| September 17, 2007 | EurekaAlert – recent postings by research institutions & scientific organizations. |
| September 10, 2007 | Astrobiology at NASA |
| September 3, 2007 | Current Moon Phase / Lunar Phase / Moon Calendar |
| August 27, 2007 | Apollo Lunar Surface Journal—Transcripts, commentary, and spectacular images from when astronauts walked on the Moon. |
| August 20, 2007 | The James Webb Space Telescope —Plans for the Hubble’s successor are underway. |
| August 13, 2007 | What time is it? — current time in about 600 cities around the world |
| August 6, 2007 | The Earth at night as seen from space— Pick out your favorite city from its light pollution. |
| July 30, 2007 | Earth Viewer — day and night. |
| July 23, 2007 | AstroViewer —Display a sky map online, very nice |
| July 16, 2007 | Space Calendar |
| July 9, 2007 | The Bruce Medalists —short biographies, photos, and bibliographies of the leading 19th and 20th century astronomers. |
| July 2, 2007 | John Herschel (pdf file) |
| June 25, 2007 | Sir Isaac Newton |
| June 18, 2007 | Tycho Brahe |
| June 11, 2007 | The Antique Telescope Society |
| June 4, 2007 | Archaeoastronomy Web Sources |
| May 28, 2007 | History of Astronomy |
| May 21, 2007 | Spaceflight Now – includes news about other space topics as well as astronomical ones |
| May 14, 2007 | Tunguska Event – Describes the massive 1908 explosion and features several papers discussing the meteorite theory. |
| May 7, 2007 | Tunguska Home Page – University of Bologna – Searching for an answer to what devastated about 2150 square kilometres of Siberian taiga on June 30th, 1908. |
| April 30, 2007 | Great Siberian Explosion – Looks at some of the wilder theories proposed to explain the great Siberian explosion that occurred over central Asia on June 30, 1908. |
| April 23, 2007 | Tectonic Interpretation of the 1908 Tunguska Event – A contrary opinion. |
| April 16, 2007 | 1908 Siberia Explosion (Tunguska) – Reconstructing the 1908 Tunguska explosion from eyewitness accounts. |
| April 9, 2007 | Near Earth Objects – The Planetary Society – Provides recent news about, as well as the society’s efforts to, research Near Earth Objects (NEOs). |
| April 2, 2007 | Near Earth Object Current Impact Risks – A table that lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. |
| March 26, 2007 | Barringer Meteor Crater – Also known as Meteor Crater, it is a gigantic depresion in the middle of the arid sandstone of the Arizona desert. |
| March 12, 2007 | Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud – Discusses the proposed vast cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system that comets reside in. |
| March 5, 2007 | Kuiper Belt Page – suggested by Alexandra Sawyer. |
| February 26, 2007 | www.harvard.edu/scied/SUN/SunIntro.html“>Astronomy in Motion Sun Pages – Includes a brief story of the Sun as a star, plus solar activities designed for understanding the size and effects of the Sun on the Earth. |
| February 19, 2007 | SpaceWeather.com – Current research news plus daily forecasts of solar flares and geo-magnetic storms from NASA. |
| February 12, 2007 | Minor Bodies and the Interplanetary Medium |
| February 5, 2007 | The UnMuseum’s Ponzo and the Moon – Explains why the Ponzo Illusion makes the Moon appear larger when near the horizon. |
| January 29, 2007 | The Space Place Images of Earth’s Moon for the Classroom – NASA Moon images with captions showing different phases, suitable for printing and classroom display. |
| January 22, 2007 | Phase of Moon – Displays the phase of the Moon in a browser window, with times of last and next Full Moon and New Moon. |
| January 15, 2007 | How long does each phase of the Moon last? – NASA’s Dr. Marc of The Space Place answers questions about Moon phases and the lunar month. Includes GIF animation of the Moon going through its phases. |
| January 8, 2007 | Moon Phases 5000 Year Catalog – NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center (GSFC) Five Millennia Catalog of the phases of the Moon. |
| January 1, 2007 | The Moon: It’s Just a Phase It’s Going Through – Very nice explanation of why our Moon has different phases. |
