WWC snapshot of http://www.fedworld.gov/astron.htm taken on Sun Jun 4 2:09:56 1995

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics

CADC Home Page: One of three world-wide distribution centers for data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Telescope Electronic Information Service: Hubble Space Telescope Education Material and Discovery Tools.
NASA Planetary Rings Node: Information about scientific data sets and how to acquire them, images, animations and general information related to the planetary ring system, and topics of current special interest.
U.S. Naval Observatory: The U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., provides information on the Observatory, star catalogs, earth orientation, precise time and time interval and more.

Astrophysics

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Abstract search utility for physics and atrosphysics reports.
Center for Astrophysics - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) spacecraft: Home Page of NASA's Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) spacecraft. Information about and data archive for the EUVE spacecraft.
NASA's Astrophysics Data System: Access to the Einstein Archive Service which will provide query and retrieval capability for the Einstein X-ray Observatory's processed data archive. Also, a listing of other ADS data services, abstracts and catalogs.

General

CEPS/NASM Smithsonian Institution: Reference library providing planetary science researchers with access to an extensive collection of image data from planetary missions.
NASA Information Services: Provides NASA information by sources and access to all NASA Space Center's home pages.
NASA Langley Research Center Home Page: Performs innovative aerospace research that is relevant to national needs and agency goals. Transfers research information.
STELAR Project: Explores the use of electronic means for improving access to scientific literature using astronomical publications to evaluate distribution, search and retrieval techniques for full text and graphics display.
NRAO Home Page: Orbiting Very Long Baseline Interferometry and the Millimeter Array (Space and Radio).
NSF HPCC Science Highlights: Samples of research underway at the center in such subject matters as Biology, Earth and Space physics, Ecology, Fluid Dynamics, Material Science and Weather and Climate.
Space Telescope Institute: Information regarding the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope.
MIT Microwave Subnode Home Page: Provides Planetary Data information such as images, data, catalogs and information releases. They are concerned with the archival and distribution of planetary radar and radiometry data along with images and text describing the experiments to map Venus.
National Information Infrastructure Testbed: Link provides information on NIIT, as well as a calendar of future meetings and a list of members. NIIT is a consortium of industry, government and universities intended to work on National Information Infrastructures, the "next generation of computing".
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Data available includes the latest GOES image of the US, the latest weather maps for the US, studies of solar terrestrial physics, information on marine biology, sea surface temperature, etc.
Infrared Processing & Analysis Center (IPAC): IPAC exists to carry out large, data-intensive processing tasks of critical importance to NASA's infrared astronomy program, and to provide scientific expertise on those projects to the astronomical community.
Arizona State University Infrared Subnode: Information from the Mars Surveyor Program. Program will commence with the launch of Mars Global Surveyor in November 1996.
Space Environment Laboratory INDEX Page: Provides near real-time monitoring and forecasting of the environment between the sun and the earth. Has current solar images, x-ray and proton plots from GOES satellites and the latest forecast of solar-terrestrial conditions.
Space Telescope Science Institute: Hubble Space Telescope Education Material and Discovery Tools
The Gemini 8m Telescopes Projects: Information about the project to mount two high performance telescopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and Cerro Pachon, Chile.
Smithsonian Institute: Links to the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, the Harvard- Smithsonia Center for Astrophysics, LMS and MSC FTP servers, Natural History Gopher and Web, SI Education Server, and the SI Photo Server.
NASA Solar Data Analysis Center: The lastest ground and space-based solar images in the SDAC archives, information on eclipses, and the home of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center: Facility at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center providing Web access to data and information from NASA high energy astrophysics missions.

Atmospheric Sciences