0.2 Astronomy websites, images, and apps  (Page 2/4)

Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: http://www.rasc.ca/. Unites professional and amateur astronomers around Canada; has 28 centers with local activities, plus national magazines and meetings.

Some astronomical publications students can read

Astronomy Now : http://www.astronomynow.com/. A colorful British monthly, with excellent articles about astronomy, the history of astronomy, and stargazing.

Astronomy : http://www.astronomy.com. Has the largest circulation of any magazine devoted to the universe and is designed especially for astronomy hobbyists and armchair astronomers.

Free Astronomy : http://www.astropublishing.com/. A new web-based publication, with European roots.

Scientific American : http://www.sciam.com. Offers one astronomy article about every other issue. These articles, a number of which are reproduced on their website, are at a slightly higher level , but—often being written by the astronomers who have done the work—are authoritative and current.

Sky&Telescope : http://skyandtelescope.com. An older and somewhat higher-level magazine for astronomy hobbyists. Many noted astronomers write for this publication.

Sky News : http://www.skynews.ca/. A Canadian publication, featuring both astronomy and stargazing information. It also lists Canadian events for hobbyists.

StarDate : https://stardate.org/. Magazine that accompanies the brief radio program, with a useful website for beginners.

Sites that cover astronomy news

Exploring the Universe: http://fraknoi.blogspot.com. An astronomy news blog by one of the original authors of this textbook.

Portal to the Universe: http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/. A site that gathers online astronomy and space news items, blogs, and pictures.

Science@NASA news stories and newscasts: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/. Well-written stories with, of course, a NASA focus.

Space.com: http://www.space.com/news/. A commercial site, but with wide coverage of space and astronomy news.

Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com/. Another commercial site, with good articles by science journalists, but a lot of ads.

Sites for answering astronomical questions

Ask an Astrobiologist: http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/. On this site from the National Astrobiology Institute at NASA, astronomer David Morrison answered questions about the search for life on other planets, the origin of life on Earth, and many other topics.

Ask an Astronomer at Lick Observatory: http://www.ucolick.org/~mountain/AAA/. Graduate students and staff members at this California observatory answered selected astronomy questions, particularly from high school students.

Ask an Astrophysicist: http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ask_an_astronomer.html. Questions and answers at NASA’s Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics focus on X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, and such objects as black holes, quasars, and supernovae.

Ask an Infrared Astronomer: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/faq/index.shtml. A site from the California Institute of Technology, with an archive focusing on infrared (heat-ray) astronomy and the discoveries it makes about cool objects in the universe. No longer taking new questions.