Constellations A brief history of celestial cartography and some statistics on all constellations A comprehensive guide to all constellations: charts, objects, bright stars data, etc. Stars sorted by constellations, with photos and stories... Almost a thousand named stars with translation of their names. SkyTour - a popular and comprehensive introduction to astronomy, stars, their properties, planets, nebulae etc. So, If you have the binos and want to explore the sky - this is for you! An expert? Try then a Constellation Quiz! Very friendly and nice. A nice private collection of constellation photos. 150 Closest stars - comprehensive data. Star charts Star Chart - incedibly useful site! Creates star charts in seconds for any point in the sky. Stars - up to 12 magnitude!!! Names and labels are also provided.(ps format) Sky photo archive - generates photo images 15 arcmin×15 arcmin around a given point. As far as I could figure out, stars up to 15th magnitudes are visible. (gif format)	For ancient people stars themselves and the figures they formed were of a great mystical meaning. That's why half of the Greek mythology can be now found in the sky, mostly as names of constellations...
Stars: an insight Double and multiple stars: an introduction. Introduction to some physics of binary stars. Betelgeuse - the first image of a resolved star! - made 1995 by Hubble. The Birth and the Death of a star - a brief pictured explanation. A nice on-line course of stellar evoluion - lectures with pictures, diagrams and formulas. How a star lives? What goes on inside? Here is a nice explanation on these things.	Do you realize that we humans are made of cosmic dust which appeared after a tremendous star explosion billions years ago...
Solar system The Nine Planets - a guide to Solar System. Really cool site! A large (140K) list of sources of planetary photos, available on the Web. Mercury Mercury - an info. And another site of info and stats. Mercury Image index Venus Venus - a quick ref. Venus image gallery Venus - facts and photos. A better version - including maps and 3D computer generated images. MAGELLAN Mission - studying Venus... Venusian map, important areas are labeled. A huge, 1834×,1024, jpg, 273K Venusian map. Looks like Earth, does not it? Mars Mars - quick ref Clickable multi-scaled map of marsian surface. The famous face on Mars. More pyramides and faces. Marsian meteorites - and life on Mars, presumably - the discovery of the century. Jupiter Jupiter - quick ref Jupiter Stroms by Hubble Space Telescope. The Great Red Spot - by HST. What a beautiful example of turbulence! Jupiter related paintings. Saturn Saturn - quick ref Saturn edge-on image. Classical rings picture. Note also two satelites. Just to compare... Uranus Uranus - quick ref. This is how it looks like - an ideal ball. Uranus, its rings and satelites. Neptune Neptune - quick ref. Neptune - in full disk. Actually, Neptune has clouds made of frozen gases. Pluto Pluto - quick ref Pluto's image taken by HST. Not much is seen actually... Read about discovery of Pluto. A whole site on Pluto, with lots of materials and discussion. New planets??? A brilliant survey of how much people wanted to find planets inside Mercury or outside Pluto, to find the second Earth's moon or the companion star of our Sun... And with some success!!!	Did you know that all features on the Venusian surface are named after famous women?.. There was indeed life on Mars!.. How large are the particles in Saturn's rings? From grains of sugar to the size of a house. Did you know that Saturn is not the unique planet to have rings? Jupeter, Uranus and Neptune have them also. By the way, Charon, Pluto's moon, was discovered only 20 years ago.

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