Universe's Web
These are links to other great web sites about the Universe. But beware: you don't want to get caught in the Universe's Web! Don't stay away from Windows to the Universe for long!
Amazing Space A web page brought to you by the Hubble Space Telescope
Astronomy.com A web page brought to you by Astronomy Magazine
Classifying Galaxies An interactive lesson for grades 5-9
Constellations and their Stars
The Galaxy Catalog Lots of Galaxy images!
Home Planet Download a free program for star maps!
Nine Planets: The Milky Way
Sea and Sky Play games and learn about the sea and sky!
Star Journey from National Geographic
The Hubble Site
Detailed interactive star map
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In the 1960's, the United States launched a series of satellites to look for very high energy photons, called Gamma Rays, that are produced whenever a nuclear bomb explodes. These satellites soon detected
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The introduction of telescopes to the study of astronomy opened up the universe, but it took some time for astronomers to realize how vast the universe could be. Telescopes revealed that our night sky
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Neutron Stars are the end point of a massive star's life. When a really massive star runs out of nuclear fuel in its core the core begins to collapse under gravity. When the core collapses the entire star
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Spiral galaxies may remind you of pinwheels turning slowly as though in some intergalactic breeze. They are rotating disks of gas, dust and stars. Through a telescope or binoculars, the bright nucleus
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White Dwarfs are the remnants of stars that were massive enough to stay alive using nuclear fusion in their cores, but not massive enough to blow apart in a Type II supernova. When stars like our own sun
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What's in a Name: Arabic for "head of the demon" Claim to Fame: Represents Medusa's eye in Perseus. A special variable star that "winks" every 3 days. Type of Star: Blue-white Main Sequence Star, and
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What's in a Name: Nicknamed the "Pup" because it is the companion to Sirius, "the Dog Star" Claim to Fame: Highly compressed white dwarf remnant. Density about 50,000 times that of water. It has approximately
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