Astronomy

The Contingent Universe

KEYWORDS: astronomy; astrophysics; cosmos; galaxy; interstellar medium; ISM; Milky Way; nebula; quasar; space; star; star cluster; universe

Star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.

John Henry Hopkins

List of Contents

Astronomy and Astrophysics Astronomy Education Forums, Periodicals, & Societies Astronomy Software Observational Astronomy Ground Observatories Space Astronomy Astronomy Data and Sky Surveys Astronomical Images Stars and Galaxies Galaxies and the Milky Way Stars and the Interstellar Medium Galactic and Stellar Evolution Protostars and Star Formation Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Evolution Post-MS and Stellar Endpoints The Far Country: Amateur Astronomy Stargazing Equipment Amateur Telescope Making Astrophotography Clubs and Societies Astronomy Travel

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Astronomy & Astrophysics	Astronomical Data	The Universe	Stars and Galaxies
Amateur Astronomy	The Visual Sky	The Solar System	Earth Sciences
Space Studies	Astrobiology	History & Philosophy	AstroNews

Stars and Galaxies

Galaxies and The Milky Way
Stars and the Interstellar Medium
Galactic and Stellar Evolution
Protostars and Star Formation
Circumstellar Disks and Planetary Evolution
Post-MS and Stellar Endpoints


Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

Gerald Manley Hopkins

Adelaide High Energy Astrophysics Group

Al Wootten's Home Page

ApPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Coordination)

ASPERA (AStroParticle ERAnet, EU)

Astronomy (Eric Hayashi, UVic Astronomy)

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology
(University of Tennessee)

Astroparticle Physics (UCLA)

Astroparticle Physics at Chicago (University of Chicago)

Astrophysical Chemistry Group (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Astrophysics (Los Alamos E-print Server)

Astrophysics in 2005 (Virginia Trimble et al., astro-ph/0606663, 27 Jun 2006)

Astrophysics in 2006 (Virginia Trimble et al., arXiv:0705.1730v1 [astro-ph], 11 May 2007)

The AstroPhysics List (Frank E. Reed)

BBC Online - Deep Space

Center for Backyard Astrophysics

Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA, Berkeley)

Center for Theoretical Astrophysics at UIUC

Centre for Backyard Astrophysics, Alberta (Brian Martin)

CITA - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
(University of Toronto)

Common Names for Deep Sky Objects (Hartmut Frommert)

Common Names for Messier Objects (Hartmut Frommert)

CompletePlanet - Directory Astrophysics

Computational Astrophysics: The Digital Demo Room (Charles F. Grammie et al., Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center -- Home Page
(Beth Jacob et al.)

Cosmic Cinema (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

David Spergel's Home Page (David N. Spergel)

Deepsky Astronomy at SEDS (Hartmut Frommert, SEDS)

Deep Space (The Observatory)

Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient [SCP 06F6] with the Hubble Space Telescope (Kyle Barbary et al., arXiv:0809.1648 [astro-ph], 10 Sep 2008)

Exeter Astrophysics (University of Exeter)

Fulvio Melia (UA Physics Department)

The GRAPE Project

Guelph-Waterloo Astrophysics & Gravitation (Michael L. Balogh et al., University of Waterloo)

Hands-On Astrophysics (Janet A. Mattei et al., AAVSO)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysics at Penn State (Scott Koch, PSU)

High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

An HST Survey of the Disk Cluster Population of M31. I. WFPC2 Pointings (O. K. Krienke & P. W. Hodge, astro-ph/0701066, 3 Jan 2007)

Imperial College Astrophysics (London)

The Interactive NGC Catalog Online (Hartmut Frommert)

JINA | The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
(University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

JPL Astrophysics Element 3231

JPL Infrared Astrophysics Team (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

JPL Stars and Galaxies (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (NASA Goddard SFC)

LEXAS Homepage (Laboratory for EXperimental AStrophysics)

Lifting the Veil (Margeret Meixner et al., BIMA)

Messier List (Chris Dolan)

Messier List (Frank's Astronomy Page)

-- Messier List Database

MOA Project Homepage (Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics)

MPIA Heidelberg Theory Group (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

MSSL Astrophysics Group Home Page

NASA/Marshall Astronomy - Stars and Beyond (John Horack)

Mysteries of Deep Space (PBS)

The NGC/IC Project Home Page

NRL Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch

Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics Team (Los Alamos)

Particle Physics and Astroparticle Physics (Werner Hofmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

PLANET Microlensing Collaboration Homepage
(Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork)

The Plasma Universe (Plasma-Universe.com)

Richard's Home Page (Richard de Grijs, University of Sheffield)

The science of PAMELA space mission (P. Picozza & Aldo Morselli, astro-ph/0604207, 10 Apr 2006)

SCP 06F6: A Carbon-rich Extragalactic Transient at Redshift z \sime 0.14? (Boris T. Gansicke et al., Astrophysical Journal Letters, 11 May 2009; abstract)

-- Update on Hubble Mystery Object (Rachel Courtland, Sky & Telescope News, 7 Jun 2009)

SEDS Messier Database

Smoot Astrophysics Research Program (George Smoot et al.)

Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com

Stars & Galaxies (NASA Exploring the Universe)

Stars and Galaxies (NASA Popular Topics)

Stars and Galaxies (U of Bradford)

Stars and Galaxies: A Hypertext Course
(Richard McCray, U Colorado Boulder)

Stars and The Milky Way @ GCA7Sky (Gary Agranat)

Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology (University of Chicago)

Theoretical Astrophysics (T-6) Group (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2MASS Atlas Image Gallery: The Messier Catalog

UK Astrophysical Fluids Facility (Stephan Rosswog et al., Theoretical Astrophysics Group, University of Leicester)

The Universe (Windows to the Universe)

Universe Tree (Louis Strous, NSO/Sacramento Peak)

US / RUSSIA Collaboration in Plasma Astrophysics (Cornell)

Virtual Universe (Peoria Astronomical Society)

Whispers from the Cosmos (BIMA Home Page)

Xiaohui Fan's Home Page (University of Arizona)

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Galaxies and The Milky Way

The Great Path has no gates;
Thousands of roads enter it.
When one passes through this gateless gate
He walks freely between heaven and earth.

Ekai (from Burnham, 3:1624)

Faintly it gleams, like a summer road,
When the light in the west is sinking low,
Silent with star-dust! By whose abode,
Does the Winter Street in its windings go?
And who are they, all unheard and unseen -
O, who are they, whose blessed feet
Pass over that highway smooth and sheen?
What pilgrims travel the Winter Street?

Edith Thomas (from Burnham, 3:1628-9)

We are peripheral... I mean we are on the edge.

Harlow Shapley

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

Arvid Chalmers (Salt Spring Hysterical Society)

Absolute motions of globular clusters. II. [HST astrometry and VLT radial velocities in NGC6397] (A. Milone et al., astro-ph/0605119, 4 May 2006)

ACS Ultra Deep Field (HST Advanced Camera for Surveys)

Active Galactic Nuclei (Wallace Sargent, Caltech)

Active Galactic Nuclei Shed Light on Axion-like-Particles (Clare Burrage et al., arXiv:0902.2320 [astro-ph.CO], 13 Feb 2009)

-- Evidence mounts for axion-like particles (Jon Cartwright, Physics World, 18 Feb 2009)

Active Galaxies and Quasars (NASA's Imagine the Universe)

Active Galaxies Newsletter (ed. Rob Beswick)

Active Galaxies, Quasars and Starbursts Research Group
(Clive Tadhunter et al., University of Sheffield)

AGN Watch (Ohio State University)

All-Sky Milky Way Panorama (Axel Mellinger)

-- Virtual Reality All-Sky Milky Way Panorama

AL 3 (BH 261): a new globular cluster in the Galaxy
(S. Ortolani et al., astro-ph/0606718, 29 Jun 2006)

Antimatter in the Milky Way (Cosimo Bambi & A. D. Dolgov, astro-ph/0702350, 13 Feb 2007)

The APM Galaxy Survey (Steve Maddox et al.)

The Aptly Named Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy (Lisa M. Young et al., astro-ph/0612766, 28 Dec 2006, revised)

Are the Magellanic Clouds on their First Passage about the Milky Way? (Gurtina Besla et al., astro-ph/0703196, 8 Mar 2007)

-- The Magellanic Clouds Are First Time-Visitors (CfA Press Release, 17 Sep 2007)

Arp's Catalog Of Peculiar Galaxies (Dennis J. Webb)

ATLASGAL - APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (MPIfR, Bonn)

ATLASGAL - The APEX telescope large area survey of the galaxy at 870 microns (Frederic Schuller et al., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 29 Jun 2009) PDF

-- Astronomer's new guide to the galaxy: largest map of cold dust revealed (ESO Photo Release ESO 24/09 , 1 Jul 2009)

BBC Online - Space - Galaxy Guide

Bill Keel's Lecture Notes - Galaxies and the Universe
(William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

Bothun, Gregory D., 'The Ghostliest Galaxies'
(Scientific American Magnificient Cosmos, March 1998)

Capabilities of NED in the Era of a Global Virtual Observatory (Joseph M. Mazzarella et al., Sep 2001)

Catalog of Parameters for Milky Way Globular Clusters
(William E. Harris, McMaster University)

CFHTLS-SL2S (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey)

Classifying Galaxies (George & Jane Hastings)

Classifying Galaxies (Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond)

Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole (Stephen Battersby, New Scientist 2709, 20 May 2009)

A deep Chandra observation of the Perseus cluster: shocks and ripples (A. C. Fabian et al., astro-ph/0306036, 2 Jun 2003, revised)

Deepest Infrared View of the Universe (Marijn Franx & Ivo Labbé, ESO Press Release 23/02, 11 Dec 2002)

Diffuse Light in the Virgo Cluster (Chris Mihos et al., Case Western Reserve University)

DIOS: the Diffuse Intergalactic Oxygen Surveyor
(T. Ohashi et al., astro-ph/0607127, 7 Jul 2006)

Distances of the bulge globular clusters Terzan 5, Liller 1, UKS 1 and Terzan 4 based on HST NICMOS photometry (S. Ortolani et al., arXiv:0705.4030v1 [astro-ph], 28 May 2007)

The Distance to the Perseus Spiral Arm in the Milky Way (Ye Xu et al., astro-ph/0512223, 8 Dec 2005)

Distant Galaxies and Cosmological Models (Edward J. Barlow)

Durham Extragalactic Astronomy Index Page

ESO imaging survey: optical follow-up of 12 selected XMM-Newton fields (J. P. Dietrich et al., A&A 449:837-54, ESO, 16 Mar 2006, revised) PDF

-- The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 (eso1036 -- Photo Release, 1 Sep 2010)

European Training Network: The Physics of the Intergalactic Medium (Piero Madau, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Explosions in Majestic Spiral Beauties (ESO Press Photos 33a-d/04, 1 Dec 2004)

Extra-Galactic Astronomy @ GCA7Sky (Gary Agranat)

Extreme Warp in Andromeda Galaxy
(Puragra Ghuhathakurta et al., 9 Jan 2001)

FIRES - Faint InfraRed Extragalactic Survey (ESO VLT)

Free Virtual Galaxy Project (Jim Smith)

Gaia (ESA Science)

Gaia (ESA Science & Technology)

GAIA - The Galactic Census Project (ESA Astrophysics)

Galactic Astronomy at MSSL (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)

The Galactic Center (JPL Infrared Astrophysics Team)

The Galactic Center (Yoshitomo Maeda)

The Galactic Core - A Galaxy of Sites: Stars & Galaxies
(Timothy J. Finucane)

A Galactic Cosmic-Ray Database (Andrew W. Strong & I. V. Moskalenko, arXiv:0907.0565v1 [astro-ph.HE], 3 Jul 2009)

Galactic Halos are Einstein Clusters of WIMPs (Kayll Lake, gr-qc/0607057, 14 Jul 2006, revised)

Galactic Links (Net Advance of Physics)

Galactic MPIRE: Flying through the Digital Galaxy
(Dennis M. Davidson et al.)

Galactic Plane Hα Surveys (Imperial College Astrophysics)

Galactic Plane Survey Project (DRAO)

Galactic Surf: Galaxies (Edouard Reny)

Galaxies (Cambridge Cosmology)

Galaxies (Hartmut Frommert, SEDS)

Galaxies (Joseph South)

Galaxies (Nick Strobel, Astronomy Notes)

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Galaxies and Cosmology at the MPIA (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

Galaxies and Quasars (Jack Troeger)

Galaxies and Quasars Homepage (LLNL)

Galaxies and the Universe (Bill Keel's Lecture Notes)

Galaxies - Basic Data (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

Galaxies Galore, Games and More (STScI)

Galaxies, Quasars & Cosmology (Mike Merrifield, PH308, Southampton U)

The Galaxy Catalog (Zsolt Frei)

-- Eötvös Mirror

Galaxy Girl (Barb)

Galaxy Hunter: A Cosmic Photo Safari
(STScI Amazing Space)

Galaxy Reviews (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

Galaxy Zoo (Kate Land et al., University of Oxford)

-- Galaxy Zoo Blog

-- See new galaxies -- without leaving your chair (Michael Hopkin, Nature, 11 Jul 2007)

-- Galaxy Zoo! (Risa Wechsler, Cosmic Variance, 12 Jul 2007)

-- Eyeballing the universe (Chris Lintott & Kate Land, Physics World, 1 Sep 2008)

-- Review of Galaxy Zoo 2 (Web life, Physics World, 5 Jan 2010)

-- Galaxy Zoo: Citizen-Science Research Helps Astronomers (Jennifer Pinkowski, Time, 28 Mar 2010)

Galaxy Zoo Mergers

Gasoline Simulation Gallery (James Wadsley)

GCNews, A Newsletter for Galactic Center Research
(ed. Angela Cotera et al.)

Gemini North Demonstration Science - Galactic Center Observations

GigaGalaxy Zoom Project (ESO)

-- ESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky (ESO Photo Release ESO 32/09, 14 Sep 2009)

-- Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 2 (ESO Photo Release ESO 34/09, 21 Sep 2009)

-- The Trilogy is Complete -- GigaGalaxy Zoom Phase 3 (ESO Photo Release ESO 34/09, 28 Sep 2009)

GLIMPSE: Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire

GLIMPSE/MIPSGAL Viewer (Alien Earths Online)

Globular Cluster Systems in Other Galaxies - NED
(William E. Harris, McMaster University)

Gravitational Lensing (Simon Dye)

Gravitational Lensing by Galaxy Clusters (Rachel Osten)

Have we detected the most luminous ULX so far? (Giovanni Miniutti et al., astro-ph/0607501, 21 Jul 2006, revised)

The Heart of the Milky Way (Fulvio Melia, American Scientist 88(4):346-53, Jul-Aug 2000)

Henrik Spoon

The Hercules-Aquila Cloud (V. Belokurov et al., astro-ph/0701790, 27 Jan 2007)

HST/ACS Ultra Deep Field (STScI)

HST Deep Field Data (The Electronic Universe Project)

HST Medium Deep Survey

The Hubble Deep Field (Zolt Levay, STScI)

The Hubble Deep Field North (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

The Hubble Deep Field South (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

HubbleSite - Galaxies

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HubbleSite)

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (Steven V. W. Beckwith et al., astro-ph/0607632, 27 Jul 2006)

Imp (James Wadsley)

The Interactive Explorations of GAIA
(A. Colorado-McEvoy, ESA Science)

IRAS Galaxy Atlas (ISIS)

Journey Through the Galaxy (Case Western University)

Journey through the Galaxy (ThinkQuest, 1997)

Journey to the Center of the Galaxy (Angelle Maria Tanner)

Julio Navarro: Galaxy Formation

Kinematics of the Local Stellar System (A. S. Tsvetkov)

Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C., & Ofer Lahav, 'Galaxies behind the Milky Way' (Scientific American, Oct. 1998)

LABOCA observations of nearby, active galaxies (Axel Weiss et al., arXiv:0808.3358v1 [astro-ph], 25 Aug 2008)

-- Black hole outflows from Centaurus A detected with APEX (ESO Press Release, 28 Jan 2009)

Level 5: A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology (Barry F. Madore et al., NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

The Local Group (Hartmut Frommert, SEDS)

The magnificent Andromeda Galaxy! (Scott C. Chapman)

Massive Black Holes Information Center - VLBI Imaging
(Jim Ulvestad, ARISE)

MilkyWay@home (Travis Desell et al., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

The Milky Way Galaxy (Gene Smith, CASS/UCSD)

The Milky Way Galaxy (Hartmut Frommert & Christine Kronberg, SEDS)

The Milky Way, Interstellar Medium and
(Nick Strobel, Astronomy Notes)

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The Milky Way's Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from Kinematics of ~2500 SDSS Blue Horizontal Branch Stars (Xiangxiang Xue et al., arXiv:0801.1232v4 [astro-ph], 8 Jan 2008, revised)

Monitoring stellar orbits around the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center (Stefan Gillesen et al., arXiv:0810.4674v1 [astro-ph], 26 Oct 2008)

-- Unprecedented 16-Year Long Study Tracks Stars Orbiting Milky Way Black Hole (ESO Press Release 46/08, 10 Dec 2008)

The MultiWavelength Milky Way (NASA Astrophysics Data Center)

NED (NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database)

NOAO Fundamental Plane Survey (Michael J. Hudson et al.)

NOVA | Monster of the Milky Way (Julia Cort et al., PBS, 31 Oct 2006)

The Nuker Team: HST Investigations Into the Central Structure of Galaxies (Douglas Richstone et al.)

Ohio State University Bright Spiral Galaxy Survey

On the Possibility of Observing the Shapiro Effect for Pulsars in Globular Clusters (T. I. Larchenkova & Alexander Lutovinov, arXiv:0705.3451 [astro-ph], 23 May 2007, revised)

Oxygen abundances in the most oxygen-rich spiral galaxies
(Leonid Pilyugin et al., astro-ph/0601122, 6 Jan 2006)

A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (Edward Emerson Barnard, 1927; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)

-- E. E. Barnard (Howard Schickler Fine Art, Brooklyn)

Photometric Redshifts (Stephen Gwyn)

Planet Quest: 3D Guide to the Galaxy
(NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Project Deeprange: A Deep Wide Area I-Band Survey
(Marc Postman et al.)

Project Warpfire: The Motion of the Local Group
(Tod R. Lauer et al.)

Quasar Absorption Spectroscopy (R. Mark Elowitz, SEDS)

Quasar Astronomy Forty Years On (William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei (William C. Keel, University of Alabama)

Quasars and Galactic Nuclei,a Half-Century Agitated Story
(Suzy Collin, astro-ph/0604560, 27 Apr 2006)

Resolved Massive Star Clusters in the Milky Way and its Satellites: Brightness Profiles and a Catalogue of Fundamental Parameters (Dean E. McLaughin & Roland P. van der Marel, astro-ph/0605132, 4 May 2006)

Rob Beswick's Homepage (Jodrell Bank Observatory)

Sagittarius A East Press Release (Steve Sampsell, 10 Jan 2001)

SHADES: SCUBA Half Degree Extragalactic Survey
(James Dunlop et al.)

SINGS: SIRTF Nearby Galaxy Survey

6dF Galaxy Survey (Matthew Colless)

A size of ~1 AU for the radio source Sgr A* at the centre of the Milky Way (Zhi-Qiang Shen et al., astro-ph/0512515, 21 Dec 2005)

The Space Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6397 (Jasonjot Singh Kalirai et al., astro-ph/0701781, 27 Jan 2007)

Space Velocities of Southern Globular Clusters. V. A Low Galactic Latitude Sample (D. I. Casetti-Dinescu et al., arXiv:0705.3438v1 [astro-ph], 23 May 2007)

The Spiral Structure of the Outer Milky Way in Hydrogen
(Evan S. Levine et al., astro-ph/0605728, 30 May 2006)

A star cluster at the edge of the Galaxy (Jan Brand & J. G. A. Wouterloot, astro-ph/0702541, 20 Feb 2007)

StarDate Online | Galaxy Guide

Studying the WHIM Content of the Galaxy Large-Scale Structures along the Line of Sight to H 2356-309 (L. Zappacosta et al., arXiv:1004.5359v1 [astro-ph.CO], 29 Apr 2010)

-- X-ray Discovery Points to Location of Missing Matter (Janet Anderson & Megan Watzke, NASA/Chandra, 11 May 2010)

-- Last "Missing" Normal Matter Is Found (Alan MacRobert, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 14 May 2010)

Submm Galaxies (Scott C. Chapman)

Supermassive Black Holes at the Center of Galaxies (Christopher J. Greenwood, astro-ph/0512350, 13 Dec 2005)

Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (John Kormendy)

Surface Brightness Profiles for a sample of LMC, SMC and Fornax galaxy Globular Clusters (Eva Noyola & Karl Gebhardt, arXiv:0705.3464v1 [astro-ph], 23 May 2007)

SWIRE: The SIRTF Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Survey

Taking measure of the Andromeda halo: a kinematic analysis of the giant stream surrounding M31 (Rodrigo A. Ibata et al., astro-ph/0403068, 2 Mar 2004)

The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (IRSA)

-- The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (T. H. Jarrett et al.)

UCLA Galactic Center Group (Andrea Ghez et al.)

The Ultra Deep Field (Leonid Borovskiy et al., HST)

Ultra Deep Field - High Level Science Products (CADC)

Understanding the Universe - Galaxy Tour (DiscoverySchool.com)

An updated survey of globular clusters in M31. II Newly discovered bright and remote clusters (Silvia Galleti et al., arXiv:0705.4037v1 [astro-ph], 28 May 2007)

The Updated Zwicky Catalog (UZC)

Veilleux, Sylvain, et al., 'Colossal Galactic Explosions'
(Scientific American Magnificent Cosmos, March 1998)

Via Lactea : A Milky Way dark matter halo simulated with over 200 million particles (Jürg Diemand, UCO/Lick Observatory)

The Virgo Consortium (Durham Astrophysics)

Virtual Universe: Milky Way Galaxy (Jason Mathews, NASA GSFC)

VLT Images - Galaxies (ESO Very Large Telescope)

VMC Survey (The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System)

-- Ambitious Survey Spots Stellar Nurseries (eso1033 - Photo Release, 11 Aug 2010)

Wide-Field Survey of Globular Clusters in M31. I. A Catalog of New Clusters (Sang Chul Kim et al., arXiv:0706.2904v1 [astro-ph], 20 Jun 2007)

See also Relativity and Cosmology

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Stars and the Interstellar Medium

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars--on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.

Robert Frost

AAVSO Home Page (American Association of Variable Star Observers)

An Activity Catalogue of Southern Stars (James S. Jenkins et al., astro-ph/0607336, 14 Jul 2006, revised)

The AFOE (Advanced Fiber-Optic Echelle) Home Page
(Sylvain G. Korzennik)

Another view to Pismis 3 with 2MASS Photometry (Ashraf Latif Tadross, arXiv:0705.2970v1 [astro-ph], 20 May 2007)

Are Proxima and Alpha Centauri Gravitationally Bound? (Jeremy G. Wertheimer & Gregory Laughlin, astro-ph/0607401, 17 Jul 2006)

Asteroseismology with the Kepler mission (J. Christensen-Dalsgaard et al., astro-ph/0701323, 11 Jan 2007)

Atmospheric Chemistry in Giant Planets, Brown Dwarfs, and Low-Mass Dwarf Stars II. Sulfur and Phosphorus (Channon Visscher & Bruce Fegley Jr., astro-ph/0511136, 4 Nov 2005)

BAA Variable Star Section Computer Archive
(British Astronomical Association)

BATC 13-band Photometry of Open Cluster NGC 7789 (Zhen-Yu Wu et al., astro-ph/0701282, 10 Jan 2007)

BBC Online - Space - Stars

A binary engine fuelling HD 87643's complex circumstellar environment using AMBER/VLT imaging (Florentin Millour et al., EOS preprint, 17 Jul 2009) PDF

-- Double Engine for a Nebula (ESO 28/09 Photo Release, 5 Aug 2009)

Binary Maker (David H. Bradstreet)

The Brightest Stars (Robert F. Garrison & Brian Beattie, Observers Handbook 1996)

The Brightest Stars (William C. Demmery)

Brown Dwarfs (Gibor Basri)

The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory)

The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey Archive (CADC)

C. E. Woodward for the HST NICMOS NOVA TEAM

Checking Out the Stellar Neighborhood (David Tenenbaum, Astrobiology Magazine, 15 Jan 2007)

Chemistry of Low Mass Substellar Objects (Katharina Lodders & Bruce Fegley, Jr., astro-ph/0601381, 17 Jan 2006)

CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy (Enrico Landi, NRL)

-- Arcetri Mirror

-- Cambridge Mirror

CHIPS, the Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer

CHIPS Education and Public Outreach

ChView: 3-D Star Maps (Jo Grant & Ben Lin)

CIDA (Cometary and Interstellar Dust Analyzer)

Cold Sugar in Space (NRAO Press Release, 20 Sep 2004)

The complementary roles of interferometry and asteroseismology in determining the mass of solar-type stars (Orlagh L. Creevey et al., astro-ph/0702270, 9 Feb 2007)

The Cornell High-order Adaptive Optics Survey for Brown Dwarfs in Stellar Systems-II: Results from Monte Carlo Population Analyses (Joseph Carson et al., astro-ph/0605283, 11 May 2006)

The coronal Ne/O abundance of alpha Centauri (Carolin Liefke & J. H. M. M. Schmitt, astro-ph/0609015, 1 Sep 2006)

Direct Detection of the Brown Dwarf GJ 802B with Adaptive Optics Masking Interferometry (James P. Lloyd et al., astro-ph/0607516, 21 Jul 2006)

Discovery of the Closest Brown Dwarf to the Sun? A Methane Rich Brown Dwarf around the Nearby M8.5 Star SCR 1845 (Beth A. Biller et al., astro-ph/0601440, 19 Jan 2006, revised)

Discovery of the Nearest L Dwarf: The Intrinsically Faintest Object at Visual Wavelengths Known Beyond Our Solar System (NOAO Press Release 06-09, 1 Aug 2006)

The Double Star Observer (ed. Ronald Tanguay)

DSN: Delta Scuti Network (Wolfgang Zima et al., IfA)

Dusty Links (Amara Graps at MPI-K)

Effects of a Local Interstellar Magnetic Field on Voyager 1 and 2 Observations (Merav Opher et al., astro-ph/0603318, 13 Mar 2006)

The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze (Gregory Dobler et al., arXiv:0910.4583v1 [astro-ph.HE], 26 Oct 2009)

-- Is Fermi Seeing Dark Matter? (Ivan Semeniuk's Embedded Universe, Sky & Telescope, 28 Oct 2009)

First Results from the CHARA Array VII: Long-Baseline Interferometric Measurements of Vega Consistent with a Pole-On, Rapidly Rotating Star (Jason P. Aufdenberg et al., astro-ph/0603327, 13 Mar 2006)

Forum for Amateur AstroSpectroscopy

FSR1735 -- A new globular cluster candidate in the inner Galaxy (Dirk Froebrich et al., astro-ph/0703318, 13 Mar 2007)

Galactic Surf: Stars (Edouard Reny)

Gamma-Ray Astronomy

-- Gamma-ray Astronomy Links (COSSC)

Gamma Ray Astrophysics at Marshall Space Flight Center
(Robert S. Mallozzi)

The Gas between the Stars (Ronald J. Reynolds, Scientific American 286:1:34-43, Jan 2002)

Gas-grain chemistry in cold interstellar cloud cores with a microscopic Monte Carlo approach to surface chemistry (Q. Chang et al., arXiv:0704.2704v1 [astro-ph], 20 Apr 2007)

Geometry.net | Interstellar Medium

Globular Cluster Group (Padova Astronomy Department)

HD 65949: The Highest Known Mercury Excess Of Any CP Star? (Charles R. Cowley et al., astro-ph/0606727, 29 Jun 2006)

HD 98618: A Star Closely Resembling our Sun (Jorge Melendez et al., astro-ph/0603219, 9 Mar 2006)

Heidelberg Cosmic Dust Group (Max Planck Institute)

Helio- and Asteroseismology (Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard et al.)

The Heliosphere as a Probe of Small Scale Structure (Priscilla Chapman Frisch, astro-ph/0610489, 16 Oct 2006)

A high resolution spectral atlas of brown dwarfs (Ansgar Reiners et al., arXiv:0707.2652v1 [astro-ph], 18 Jul 2007)

A Hubble Space Telescope ACS Search for Brown Dwarf Binaries in the Pleiades Open Cluster (Herve Bouy et al., astro-ph/0509795, 27 Sep 2005)

Hubble Space Telescope NICMOS Observations of T Dwarfs: Brown Dwarf Multiplicity and New Probes of the L/T Transition (Adam J. Burgasser et al., astro-ph/0605577, 22 May 2006)

HubbleSite - Stars

A hypervelocity star from the Large Magellanic Cloud (Alessia Gualandris & Simon Portegies Zwart, astro-ph/0612673, 22 Dec 2006)

Identification of New M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighborhood (Basmah Riaz et al., astro-ph/0606617, 26 Jun 2006)

Infrared spectroscopy of HCOOH in interstellar ice analogues (Suzanne E. Bisschop et al., arXiv:0705.0002v1 [astro-ph], 30 Apr 2007)

The Internet Stellar Database (Roger M. Wilcox)

Interstellar Chemistry Gets More Complex With New Charged-Molecule Discovery (US National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 20 Jul 2007)

Interstellar Dust in the Solar System (Harald Krueger et al., arXiv:0706.3110v1 [astro-ph], 21 Jun 2007)

Interstellar Medium and the Milky Way
(Nick Strobel, Astronomy Notes)

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Interstellar Microwave Spectroscopy
(Tom Kuiper, DSN Radio Astronomy)

Interstellar Molecules (Tom Kuiper, DSN Radio Astronomy)

Interstellar Organic Matter in Meteorites (G. Jeffrey Taylor, Planetary Science Research Discoveries, 26 May 2006)

Interstellar Silhouettes: Neutral Hydrogen Self-Absorption in the CGPS (Steven Gibson et al.)

IPL Ready Reference Collection: Stellar

Keck/HIRES Spectroscopy of Four Candidate Solar Twins
(Jeremy R. King et al., astro-ph/0508004, 29 Jul 2005)

Kelu-1 is a Binary L Dwarf: First Brown Dwarf Science from Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (Michael C. Liu & Sandy C. Leggett, astro-ph/0508082, 2 Aug 2005)

Laboratory of Astrophysics and Surface Science
(Syracuse Physics)

A Large-Area Search for Low Mass Objects in Upper Scorpius I: The Photometric Campaign and New Brown Dwarfs (Catherine L. Slesnick et al., astro-ph/0602298, 14 Feb 2006)

The largest oxygen bearing organic molecule repository (Miguel Angel Requena-Torres et al., arXiv:0709.0542v1 [astro-ph], 5 Sep 2007)

Laser Star Astrophysics (John Talbot)

Lecture Notes on Stellar Oscillations (Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard)

The Local Interstellar Medium

The Local Interstellar Medium (Seth Redfield, astro-ph/0601117, 6 Jan 2006)

Low-mass companions to Hyades stars (Eike W. Guenther et al., astro-ph/0508427, 19 Aug 2005)

The Magnetar (Peter Kovac)

Magnetars (Robert Duncan & Dave Dooling, Science@NASA)

'Magnetars', Soft Gamma Repeaters & Very Strong Magnetic Fields (Robert C. Duncan)

Magnetars -- The Strongest Magnets in the Galaxy (Science@NASA)

Measuring Fundamental Parameters of Substellar Objects. I: Surface Gravities (Subhanjoy Mohanty et al., astro-ph/0403265, 11 Mar 2004)

Metallicity distribution of Omega Cen Red Giants based on the Stroemgren m1 metallicity index (Annalisa Calamida et al., astro-ph/0702120, 5 Feb 2007)

The Metallicity of Stars with Close Companions (Daniel Grether & Charles H. Lineweaver, astro-ph/0612172, 7 Dec 2006)

A Method to Derive the Absolute Composition of the Sun, the Solar System and the Stars (L. Piersanti et al., astro-ph/0611229, 7 Nov 2006)

Michael C. Liu, Homepage of (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii)

MIT X-Ray Timing Explorer Project

Models of alpha Centauri A and B with and without seismic constraints: time dependence of the mixing-length parameter (M. Yildiz, astro-ph/0611733, 23 Nov 2006)

Molecular Astrophysics (Al Wootten)

Molecular gas in the Andromeda galaxy (Ch. Nieten et al., astro-ph/0512563, 22 Dec 2005)

The Monitor Project (Suzanne Aigrain et al., Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters (Suzanne Aigrain et al., astro-ph/0611431, 14 Nov 2006)

NACRE (European Nuclear Astrophysics Compilation of REaction Rates)

NASA/MSFC Dusty Plasma Experiment (J. F. Spann, PI)

NASA NStars Database (Nearby Stars Project)

-- The NStars Spectra Homepage (Appalachian State University)

The Natures of the Stars (Jim Kaler)

Nearby stars from the LSPM-north Proper Motion Catalog. I. Main Sequence Dwarfs and Giants Within 33 Parsecs of the Sun (Sebastien Lepine, astro-ph/0506152, 7 Jun 2005)

The Nearest Stars (William C. Demmery)

NIST Frequencies for Observed Interstellar Molecular Microwave Transitions (Frank J. Lovas)

Nuclear Astrophysics, 1957-2007: Beyond the First Fifty Years (California Institute of Technology, 23-27 Jul 2007)

Open European Journal on Variable stars (OEJV)

Optical Spectroscopy of a Flare on Barnard's Star (Diane Paulson et al., astro-ph/0511281, 9 Nov 2005)

Oxygen abundance of open cluster dwarfs (Zhixia Shen et al., astro-ph/0703787, 30 Mar 2007)

Patterns of photometric and chromospheric variation among Sun-like stars: A 20-year perspective (G. Wes Lockwood et al., astro-ph/0703408, 15 Mar 2007)

Photometric study of distant open clusters in the second quadrant: NGC 7245, King 9, King 13 and IC 166 (Annapurni Subramaniam & Bhuwan Chandra Bhatt, astro-ph/0703075, 5 Mar 2007)

Physical and Spectral Characteristics of the T8 and Later-Type Dwarfs (Sandy K. Leggett et al., arXiv:0705.2602v1 [astro-ph], 17 May 2007)

Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos (US National Research Council, 2004)

The Pleiades (Steven Gibson)

Pleiades low-mass brown dwarfs: the cluster L dwarf sequence (Gabriel Bihain et al., astro-ph/0608255, 11 Aug 2006, revised)

A possible activity cycle in Proxima Centauri (Carolina Cincunegui et al., astro-ph/0703514, 20 Mar 2007)

Predictions for Triple Stars and Pulsar Triples in Star Clusters (Michele Trenti et al., arXiv:0705.4223v1 [astro-ph], 29 May 2007)

Presolar Grains in Meteorites (Larry R. Nittler)

The proper motion of the Arches cluster with Keck Laser-Guide Star Adaptive Optics (Andrea Stolte et al., arXiv:0706.4133v1 [astro-ph], 28 Jun 2007)

Proper motion Pleiades candidate L-type brown dwarfs
(Gabriel Bihain et al., astro-ph/0511278, 9 Nov 2005)

Properties of Stars (Nick Strobel, Astronomy Notes)

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Prospects of using simulations to study the photospheres of brown dwarfs (Hans-G. Ludwig, arXiv:0704.1296 [astro-ph], 10 Apr 2007)

Radio Astronomy, The Interstellar Medium, & Star Formation for Beginners - A Tutorial (Rene Plume)

Rare-earth elements in the atmosphere of the magnetic chemically peculiar star HD 144897. New classification of the Nd III spectrum (T. Ryabchikova et al., astro-ph/0604546, 26 Apr 2006)

RECONS | Research Consortium on Nearby Stars
(Georgia State University, Atlanta)

Reported Interstellar and Circumstellar Molecules (Al Wootten)

Research in Circumstellar Gas-Dynamics
(John M. Blondin et al., NCSU Astrophysics)

The Revised Catalog of MK Spectral Types for the Cooler Stars
(Philip C. Keenan & Gerald H. Newsom, OSU)

The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 solar mass stellar mass limit (Paul A. Crowther et al., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 8 Jul 2010) PDF

-- Stars Just Got Bigger: A 300 Solar Mass Star Uncovered (eso1030 - Science Release, 21 Jul 2010)

-- R136a1: New Heavyweight Champion? (Kelly Beatty, Sky & Telescope News Blog, 21 Jul 2010)

Scientists Discover Sugar in Space (NRAO Press Release, 15 Jun 2000)

A search for interstellar anthracene toward the Perseus anomalous microwave emission region (S. Iglesias-Groth et al., arXiv:1005.4388v1 [astro-ph.GA], 24 May 2010)

A Sensitive Search for Variability in Late L Dwarfs: The Quest for Weather (Maria Marales-Calderon et al., astro-ph/0607537, 24 Jul 2006)

A Sharper View of the Stars (Arsen J. Hajian & J. Thomas Armstrong, Scientific American, Mar 2001)

Sir James Jeans and the Stability of Gaseous Stars (Alan B. Whiting, astro-ph/0610511, 17 Oct 2006)

Solar Analogs: Characteristics and Optimum Candidates
(2nd Annual Lowell Observatory Fall Workshop, 5-7 Oct. 1997)

Solar Chemical Peculiarities? (Carlos Allende Prieto, astro-ph/0612200, 8 Dec 2006)

Solar-like oscillations in alpha Centauri B (Tim Bedding et al., astro-ph/0508609, 29 Aug 2005)

Solar-like oscillations in open cluster stars (Dennis Stello et al., astro-ph/0702215, 7 Feb 2007)

The Solar Neighborhood XV: Discovery of New High Proper Motion Stars with mu >= 0.4"/yr between Declinations -47 degrees and 00 degrees (John P. Subasavage Jr. et al., astro-ph/0506733, 29 Jun 2005)

The Solar Neighborhood. XVIII. Discovery of new proper motion stars with 0.40 arcsec yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18 arcsec yr^-1 between declinations -90 degrees and -47 degrees (Charlie T. Finch et al., astro-ph/0703133, 6 Mar 2007)

SolStation.com

The Southern Galactic Plane Survey (Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths et al.)

Spitzer Observations of Nearby M Dwarfs (Basmah Riaz et al., astro-ph/0607405, 18 Jul 2006)

Spitzer Observations of two TW Hydrae Association Brown Dwarfs (Basmah Riaz et al., astro-ph/0606666, 27 Jun 2006)

Stability of Triple Star Systems with Highly Inclined Orbits (S. A. Khodykin et al., arXiv:astro-ph/0302464, 22 Feb 2003, revised)

Star Catalogs (USNO)

StarDate Online | Star Guide

STARDUST Home Page

Star List (Chris Dolan)

Starrfield, Sumner, & Steven N. Shore, 'V1974 Cygni 1992: The Most Important Nova of the Century' (Scientific American Magnificient Cosmos, March 1998)

The Stars (Greg Goebel)

Stars (Syracuse SETI Module)

Stars - Interstellar Medium (J. C. Evans, 1998)

Stars - An Introduction (NASA's Observatorium)

Stars, Nebulae, and Star Clusters (Jack Troeger)

Stars: Portraits of Stars and Their Constellations (Jim Kaler)

Stellar Astronomy Links (Net Advance of Physics)

Stellar Clusters (Simon Dandavino)

Stellar Directory (Michael R. Feltz)

The Sun-like activity of the solar twin 18 Scorpii (Wes Lockwood et al., astro-ph/0703450, 16 Mar 2007)

A Survey of Chromospheric Activity in the Solar-Type Stars in the Open Cluster M67 (Mark S. Giampapa et al., astro-ph/0607313, 13 Jul 2006)

Theory of Low-Mass Stars and Substellar Objects (Gilles Chabrier & Isabelle Baraffe, astro-ph/0006383, 27 Jun 2000)

3-D Starmaps (Winchell Chung, Project Rho)

3-D Star Maps... (Ebook, Kurt Allen Foge)

The Three-Dimensional Universe (Brian Tung)

Towards absolute scales of radii and masses of open clusters (Ralf-Dieter Scholz et al., astro-ph/0702517, 20 Feb 2007)

The Turbulent Interstellar Medium (Andreas Burkert, astro-ph/0605088, 3 May 2006)

The UCL Centre for Cosmic Chemistry and Physics (J. M. Gingell & James Perry, University College London)

uvby-Hbeta CCD photometry and membership segregation of the open cluster NGC2682 (M67) (Lola Balaguer-Nunez et al., arXiv:0704.2887v1 [astro-ph], 22 Apr 2007)

Variable Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 2099 (M37) (Yong Beom Kang et al., astro-ph/0702675, 26 Feb 2007)

Variable stars in the open cluster NGC 6791 and its surrounding field (Fabrizio De Marchi et al., arXiv:0706.2962v1 [astro-ph], 20 Jun 2007)

Vega is a rapidly rotating star (Deane M. Peterson et al., astro-ph/0603520, 20 Mar 2006)

A very cool brown dwarf in UKIDSS DR1 (S. J. Warren et al., arXiv:0708.0655v1 [astro-ph], 5 Aug 2007)

The VLA Galactic Plane Survey (University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory)

Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery (Tony Phillips, Science@NASA, 23 Dec 2009)

VSNET - An International Mailing List on Variable Stars
(Variable Star Network)

VSOLJ Variable Star Bulletin (Variable Star Observers League in Japan)

The Web Nebulae (Bill Arnett)

Weighing a Star (Leos Ondra)

The Whole Earth Telescope (UTexas at Austin)

Whole Earth Telescope Homepage
(Todd Watson & Sean O'Brien, IITAP)

Widely separated binary systems of very low mass stars
(Ngoc Phan-Bao et al., astro-ph/0509705, 23 Sep 2005)

WMAP Haze: Directly Observing Dark Matter? (Michael McNeil Forbes & Ariel R. Zhitnitsky, arXiv:0802.3830v1 [astro-ph], 26 Feb 2008)

WMAP Microwave Emission Interpreted as Dark Matter Annihilation in the Inner Galaxy (Douglas P. Finkbeiner, arXiv:astro-ph/0409027, 2 Sep 2004, revised & superseded)

X-Ray (SAI Relativistic Astrophysics)

-- Scenario Machine Engine

Yahoo! - Stellar Phenomena

Ziurys Research Group: High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy and Astrochemistry (Lucy Ziurys et al., University of Arizona)

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