OUR FAVORITE ASTRONOMY LINKS:
Magazines:
Mercury, from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Abram's Planetarium "Sky Calendar"
The "Skeptical Inquirer" at CSICOP
Skywatching:
Aurora forecasts at Spaceweather!
How to locate Iridium Flares and the Space Station
Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society
University of Illinois Astronomical Society
Upcoming solar and lunar eclipses
Deep Sky Observing and the Messier Catalog
Space & Astronomy News:
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Space News from MSNBC
Space Missions:
Observing the Sun with SOHO
The Rovers on Mars
The Cassini mission at Saturn
The Galileo mission to Jupiter
The Hubble Space Telescope homepage
The Magellan radar-mapping mission to Venus
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission
Space Shuttle & Space Station information
The Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope
The Chandra X-ray Space Telescope
The New Horizons mission to Pluto
Astronomy Education:
Jim Kaler's homepage
Web-based astronomy activities
A tour of the nine planets . . . . or is it eight?
Want pictures? Try the planetary photojournal!
The World's Largest Solar System Model . . . .based in Peoria, IL.
Spin-offs . . . or how have we benefited from the space program?
NASA's space science education resources directory
Information on stellar spectra from Jim Kaler
Think we didn't land on the Moon? Is astrology real? See "Bad Astronomy!"
Buying a Telescope (the planetarium does not endorse products):
Shop at the Astronomy Mall
Organizations:
International Dark Sky Association
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Great Lakes Planetarium Association
University of Illinois Astronomy Department
The Astronomical League - a consortium of astronomy clubs nationwide
Champaign County's "Museums at the Crossroads"