Windows to the Universe
Here are 3 more excellent sites for images and information about our solar system. All 3 are easy to use:
The Nine Planets
Welcome to the Planets
Views of the Solar System
And still more!
Solar System Live
NASA Homepage
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
The University of Michigan, with funding from NASA, has created this user - friendly interdisciplinary science web site -- a great resource for students and teachers alike. Content includes "a wealth of information ranging from solar and planetary science to astrophysics, supplemented wtih related topics in mythology, art, music, film, literature, history and philosophy as well as new research discoveries, current events, and links to data bases and other sites of interest on the World Wide Web."
Created by SEDS, Students for Exploration and Development of Space at the University of Arizona.
Created by Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology - the folks who help NASA run all the space-probe missions.
Created by Calvin J. Hamilton at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Want to know where the planets are right now if you were viewing them from somewhere above the solar system? You can find out at this site. A great tool for exploring the orbits of the planets.
No list of astronomy web sites is complete without NASA. Here is the front end to NASA's gigantic network of space science resources.
Don't miss this web site of the largest general astronomy society in the world. Plenty of resources here for teachers and interested amateurs as well as for professional astronomers. The ASP also has a terrific on-line catalog full of books, posters, models, slides, videos -- all kinds of astronomy education materials.
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