Featured Sites Archives – 2008
| Week of | Site | ||||
| December 29, 2008 | Astro-Nuts – Astronomy Beginner’s Help | ||||
| December 22, 2008 | The Night Sky This Week | ||||
| December 15, 2008 | Moon Phases – Calendar table with phases of the moon for the years 2005 – 2010 | ||||
| December 8, 2008 | SpaceSounds – sounds from space | ||||
| December 1, 2008 | BinoSky – stargazing with binoculars | ||||
| November 24, 2008 | Arty the Part-time Astronaut – A children’s interactive adventure though our solar system | ||||
| November 17, 2008 | Astronomy for Kids – for kids | ||||
| November 10, 2008 | Kid Info: Astronomy/Space TravelAstronomy_SpaceTravel – This site is best suited for middle school and high school students | ||||
| November 3, 2008 | AstronomyNow.com – Official website of UK’s best-selling astronomy magazine | ||||
| October 27, 2008 | The Planetary Photojournal | ||||
| October 20, 2008 | Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon | ||||
| October 13, 2008 | Human Space Flight: Apollo History | ||||
| October 6, 2008 | Hubble Telescope Greatest Hits, 1990 to 1995 | ||||
| September 29, 2008 | Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures | ||||
| September 22, 2008 | Hubble Space Telescope Home Page | ||||
| September 15, 2008 | Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth – NASA site gives you access to all photographs taken since 1961 | ||||
| September 8, 2008 | Explore the Moon | ||||
| September 1, 2008 | Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia | ||||
| August 25, 2008 | Phoenix Mars Lander was launched 4 August 2007, will dig into polar region | ||||
| August 18. 2008 | Kaguya, aka Selene, orbiting the Moon with three spacecraft, will map its gravity field | ||||
| August 11, 2008 | Venus Express is orbiting Venus and sending back information and images | ||||
| August 4, 2008 | Dawn spacecraft, launched 27 September 2007, will orbit Vesta and Ceres | ||||
| July 28, 2008 | MESSENGER mission to Mercury | ||||
| July 21, 2008 | JPL Mars Exploration Program | ||||
| July 14, 2008 | The Planetary Society | ||||
| July 7, 2008 | Inconstant Moon | ||||
| June 30, 2008 | Liftoff to Space Exploration – is NASA’s web site for teenagers and older | ||||
| June 23, 2008 | Moon Phase Information | ||||
| June 16, 2008 | Imagine the Universe – a NASA site | ||||
| June 9, 2008 | Solar System Live – view the solar system and beyond from any time point or position with this interactive tool | ||||
| June 2, 2008 | Exploring the Environment | ||||
| May 26, 2008 | Chandra X-Ray Observatory | ||||
| May 19, 2008 | The Why Files – the science behind the news | ||||
| May 12, 2008 | Mad Scientist Network – scientists providing answers to your questions | ||||
| May 5, 2008 | Jonathan’s Space Report – Issued about once a week, it provides information on all recently launched satellites. | ||||
| April 28, 2008 | NASA satellite tracking page | ||||
| April 21, 2008 | Visual Satellite Observer | ||||
| April 14, 2008 | SKYHOUND – source of timely information for the observer | ||||
| April 7, 2008 | THE MESSIER CATALOG | ||||
| March 31, 2008 | CLEAR SKY CLOCK – good site for observers wanting a forecast of the night skies | ||||
| March 24, 2008 | Asteroids and Comets (NASA) | ||||
| March 17, 2008 | www.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html“> Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams – a place to report a new finding on the sky for comets, planets, stars, galaxies etc. | ||||
| March 10, 2008 | Astronaut Biographies | ||||
| March 3, 2008 | Public observatory called Sasteria in the south of Crete – visit if you are there | ||||
| February 25, 2007 | The Aurora Page | ||||
| February 18, 2007 | Basics of Space Flight – training module designed primarily to help JPL operations people identify the range of concepts associated with deep space missions and grasp the relationships these concepts exhibit for space flight. | ||||
| February 11, 2008 | A Virtual Tour of the Sun | ||||
| February 4, 2008 | Cloudy Nights – top telescope review site | ||||
| January 28, 2008 |
First look at
Mercury’s hidden side New Images of Mercury |
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| January 21, 2008 | HubbleSite Gallery | ||||
| January 14, 2008 |
Universe Today
| January 7, 2008 |
NASA –
homepage |
January 1, 2008 |
Space Weather |
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