Online astronomy resources!

[TheExplorer]

I am interested in cosmology/astronomy, but only as a hobby.

 

I constantly find some very helpful sites to further my knoledge in the subject and am going to post them here for anyone to view, so there in one place.

 

Hope its useful.

 

If anyone wants to post any useful links too, please do.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the best website ever. They have textbooks and academic reads in every subject.

http://www.freebookcentre.net/

 

Mainly for kids, but has astronomy games and info.

www.kidsastronomy.com

 

Free online astronomy courses on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/courses?search=astronomy

 

ASTRONOMY TODAY

www.universetoday.com

 

I have found three different simulations of the cosmos that are awesome:

 

1.) Google Sky.

http://www.google.ca/sky/

 

2.) World Wide Telescope (WWT)

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/

 

3.) NASA'S Skyview virtual Observatory

 

 

 

[CaptainPanic]

I enjoy reading Bad Astronomy. It's a blog with approx. one update per day. The posts usually give good explanations of new developments in astronomy (but also sometimes other important scientific events, or more rarely, politics).

[Nicholas Kang]

This is the most useful link I have ever visited.

 

arvix.org

 

It contains a lot of useful university level materials for fuether reference, even famous writers like Stephen Hawking or olden days` articles like Albert Einstein ones are published there too. But this is not very suitable for TheExplorer.

 

Some science magazines offer online webpages too. for example Scientific American, Nature and so on. NASA offers news too. Simulations form NASA is a good way of learning how space technology really works but it had been removed from its official webpage from the 3D Resources section.

 

Stellarium is a famous software too. I used to download them but soon uninstall them after suspecting they are affected by my computer viruses.

 

Other software can be found at http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/astronomy-software-public-domain-freeware-and-shareware/

 

Enjoy astronomy. And don`t forget SETI@home, a project in effort of searching for ETs.

Edited August 15, 2014 by Nicholas Kang

[Nicholas Kang]

Other examples include:

 

www.newscientist.com

 

vega.org.uk

 

http://cosmology101.wikidot.com/

 

www.space.com

 

Stay tune.