Academic Web Resources

Astronomy Departments

Astronomy Institutes

Astronomy Software and Labs

Organizations

Glossaries

Astro Education Resources

Newsgroups

Career and Job Opportunities

Guides to Astronomy and Physics Careers

Study Skills

Astronomy Departments

Arizona State University
http://phy.asu.edu/

Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/astronomy

Brown University
http://www.physics.brown.edu/

Cornell University
http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/

Indiana University
http://www.astro.indiana.edu/

Iowa State University
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~astro/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
http://www-eaps.mit.edu/index.html

Michigan State University
http://pads1.pa.msu.edu/

New Mexico State University
http://charon.nmsu.edu/

Northwestern University
http://www.astro.nwu.edu/

Pennsylvania State University
http://www.astro.psu.edu/

Princeton University
http://astro.princeton.edu/

Rice Universtiy
http://dacnet.rice.edu/depts/ricephys

Saint Mary's University
http://mnbsun.stmarys.ca/

San Diego State University
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/

University of Alabama
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/AlabamaHome.html

University of Arizona
http://www.as.arizona.edu/department/

University of Calgary
http://www.phas.ucalgary.ca/

University of California, Berkeley
http://astron.berkeley.edu/home.html

University of California, San Diego
http://www.ucsd.edu/

University of California, Santa Cruz
http://www.ucolick.org/

University of Maryland
http://www.astro.umd.edu/

University of Massachusetts
http://www.astro.umass.edu/

Universtiy of Minnesota
http://www.astro.umn.edu/

University of New Mexico
http://epswww.unm.edu/

University of Pennsylvania
http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/

University of Texas
http://www.as.utexas.edu/

University of Toronto
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/

University of Victoria
http://www.phys.uvic.ca/

University of Virginia
http://www.astro.virginia.edu/

University of Washington
http://www.astro.washington.edu/

University of Western Ontario
http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/

University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.astro.wisc.edu/

Vassar College
http://depts.vassar.edu/~physastr/

Williams College
http://www.williams.edu/astronomy/

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Astronomy Institutes

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa-home.html

Institute for Astronomy
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/

Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/lpi.html

Naval Research Lab
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/home.html

Space Telescope Science Institute
http://www.stsci.edu/top.html

U.S. Geological Survey
http://info.er.usgs.gov

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Astronomy Software and Labs

TheSky Software
http://www.bisque.com

CLEA Labs
http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/physics/clea/CLEAhome.html

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Organizations

American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/

American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
http://www.aspsky.org

British Astronomical Association
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~baa/

Board on Physics and Astronomy
http://www.nas.edu/bpa

International Astronomical Union
http://www.iau.org/

The Planetary Society
http://planetary.org/

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Glossaries

Solar-terrestrial terms
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/info/glossary.html

Astronomy terms
http://www.astronomy.com/glossary/glossary_search_user.asp

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Astro Educational Resources

Educational resources
Astronomy Education Review
http://aer.noao.edu/

Universe newsletter
http://www.aspsky.org/education/tnl.html

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Newsgroups

There are tens of thousands of news groups available via the Internet. You can play a passive role and read what others have to say or you can be active and respond to posted items or post your own statements or requests. In order to post responses or new items you must have a valid electronic mail account and your browser must be configured with your email address, your post office address, and the address of the system that maintains USENET (your NEWS server) for your organization. These can be set in Mail and News Preferences under Options if you are using Netscape. A connection to an Astronomy Newsgroup is given below:

Netscape allows you to request a list of all of the main categories of Newsgroups. When you are in one of the News groups select Show All News Groups from the Options menu. (This may take a while, especially if you are using a modem.) Netscape allows you to subscribe (and, fortunately, "unsubscribe" to Newsgroups).

A Guide To Newsgroups provides a lot of resources available on Usenet.

The Mail, News and Bookmarks of the Netscape Handbook is an excellent resource.

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Career and Job Opportunities

American Institute of Physics Career Bulletin Board
http://www.aip.org/careersvc

National Academy of Sciences, Staff Position Openings
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/ohr.nsf

American Astronomical Society Job Index
http://www.aas.org/JobRegister/

American Physical Society Jobs
http://www.aps.org/jobs/

Physics World Job List
http://physicsweb.org/jobs

Sloan Foundation "One Stop Shopping" Career Search
http://www.sloan.org/programs/pg_education.shtml

Employment opportunities at the American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/hr/Employment_Opportunities

Physics Job Announcements by Thread
http://www.physics.umd.edu/robot/jobs/jobmenu.html

Starlink Job News Items
http://www.starlink.rl.ac.uk/news/news_starjobs.txt

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Guides to Astronomy and Physics

A Guide Book to Astronomy
http://itss.raytheon.com/cafe/cafe.html

Guide to Astronomy Career
http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/jobs.html


Planning Guide to Grad School and Beyond
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5129.html

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Study Skills

Reading skills for science texts, improving reading speed, notetaking, time management
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

SQ3R reading methods, how to review, take notes, increase reading speed, and solve problems
http://www.demon.co.uk/mindtool/page3.html

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