Lesson 3  Cosmic zoom
The Voyage Continues... 
From the Sun to the Edge of the Universe


http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

This site presents a collection of fun educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data. Students can explore the Sun's tangled magnetic field, its turbulent surface motions, the dramatic sunspot cycle, and even what magic happens in the solar interior where instrumental eyes cannot penetrate.


http://solar.physics.montana.edu/gallery

MSU Solar Physics Image Gallery
Links to many movies showing the Sun's activities


http://science.nasa.gov/ssl/pad/solar/flares.htm

Solar Physics, Marshall Space Flight Center

http://bellman.astro.su.se/solar/NatureNov2002/press_images_eng.html

Images and movies from the Nature article data set

The images and movies on this page are the most highly resolved solar images ever taken. The observations were made with the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope (SST) by Göran B. Scharmer, Boris V. Gudiksen, Dan Kiselman, Mats G. Löfdahl, and Luc H. M. Rouppe van der Voort.



http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/~pfrr/AURORA/INDEX.HTM


Regular forecasts of auroral activity over Alaska (and the
northern hemisphere) are available here while the
nights are dark enough to observe aurora (approximately September through April.) 


http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/

 
The plots on this page show the current extent and position of the auroral 
oval at each pole, extrapolated from measurements taken during the most recent 
polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite.  "Center time" is the calculated time
halfway through the satellite's pass over the pole.


http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/


The  SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) project
is being carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the 
US  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) as a cooperative effort between the two agencies in the
framework of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) comprising
SOHO and CLUSTER, and the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program
ISTP), with Geotail (ISAS-Japan), Wind,and Polar.



http://www.geocities.com/peterroberts.geo/astro.htm


Lot's of links to anything astronomical


http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_survey.html

Astronomical survey projects




http://www.astr.ua.edu/white/mug/cluster/clusters.html

Galaxy Cluster Mug Shots



http://astro.estec.esa.nl/Hipparcos/


Volume 1 of The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues available
    online: See The Catalogue page for further details.

http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/gc_movie.html

The Two Micron All Sky Survey at IPAC

2MASS Galactic Center: The Movie

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Anim.html

Hubble Animations


http://www.not.iac.es/

Nordic Optical Telescope Scientific Association

The Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) Scientific Association (NOTSA) was founded in 1984 to construct and operate a Nordic telescope for observations at optical and infrared wavelengths.


http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/castles/

CASTLES Survey

Welcome to the web site for the CfA-Arizona Space Telescope LEns Survey of gravitational lenses. We will provide information and data on gravitational lens systems, including HST and radio images that can be downloaded from our ftp site. As a courtesy, please cite this website (C.S. Kochanek, E.E. Falco, C. Impey, J. Lehar, B. McLeod, H.-W. Rix) if you use it in your research. We reduce our NICMOS data with our own IRAF software, called nicred.




http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20030109.quasar.html

Sloan Digital Sky Survey


http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/Cosmos/TheWorksMovies.html

Cosmos in Motion: The Works!



http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/picture/movies.html




 N-Body Shop    University of Washington

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/VisTech/visWeblets.html

Scientific Visualization Sites

This page is an annotated bibliography of scientific visualization web sites around the world.
It is a service of the NAS (Numerical Aerospace Simulation) Facility at NASA Ames Research Center.




http://www.eso.org/



The European Southern Observatory
		  is an intergovernmental, European organisation for 
		  astronomical research. It has ten member countries. 
		  ESO operates astronomical observatories in Chile and 
		  has its headquarters in Garching, near
		  Munich, Germany.


http://hubblesite.org/

Out of the ordinary ...out of this world.
Chances are you haven't seen what NASA's orbiting Hubble Space Telescope sees. Hubble sees the raw beauty of the universe from above Earth's atmosphere and sends back a portrait of the universe in exquisite detail. Here's your chance to leave the ground for a while... and see what Hubble sees.




http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/










http://www.aao.gov.au/press/2dfmovie.html

Cosmic census shapes a trip through the Universe

http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/seti_optical_searches/

The Planetary Society
Projects SETI Optical Telescope

New Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Begins

Planetary Society Opens World's First Dedicated Optical SETI Telescope
On April 11, 2006, The Planetary Society dedicated a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachusetts. The state-of-the-art telescope is designed solely to search for light signals from alien civilizations.

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

http://www.seti-inst.edu/

The mission of the SETI Institute is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.

http://www.setileague.org/

The SETI League: since 1994 the leading membership-supported,
non-profit {501(c)(3)}, educational and scientific organization
Searching for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Home to Project Argus, the ambitious global Microwave SETI project