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Explorations An Introduction to Astronomy, 3/e
Thomas T. Arny

The Sun, Our Star

Web Links


Governmental Agencies

http://www.nasa.gov/
(http://www.nasa.gov/)

NASA homepage
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery)

National Space Science Data Center. A NASA site with lots of pictures, fact sheets, glossary.
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html
(http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/sdac.html)

Solar Data Analysis Center
http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/serts/
(http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/serts/)

Solar Extreme-ultraviolet Rocket Telescope and Spectrograph (SERTS)
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/
(http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/)

Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics' Solar Flare Theory page
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GLOSSARY/glossary.html
(http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GLOSSARY/glossary.html)

Glossary of Solar-Terrestrial Terms
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasmas/SunLayers.html
(http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_Pages/5.Plasmas/SunLayers.html)

Layers of the Sun: From Core To Corona
http://www.ips.gov.au/asfc/current/
(http://www.ips.gov.au/asfc/current/)

Australian Space Forecast Center: Current Solar Conditions
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html
(http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html)

Current solar images from NASA's Solar Data Analysis Center
http://sec.noaa.gov/solar_images/ImageIndex.cgi
(http://sec.noaa.gov/solar_images/ImageIndex.cgi)

Space Environment Laboratory's Solar Image Index
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
(http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/)

SOHO: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
Institutional / Education

http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/physics/observ/research.html
(http://www.edinboro.edu/cwis/physics/observ/research.html)

Solar Irradiance Variability
http://argo.tuc.noao.edu/
(http://argo.tuc.noao.edu/)

National Solar Observatory
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slides.html
(http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/slides/slides.html)

The High Altitude Observatory-images of the Sun showing spots, prominences, and so forth.
http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/
(http://www.solar.ifa.hawaii.edu/)

Mees Solar Observatory at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy
Organizations

http://www.ct.astro.it/
(http://www.ct.astro.it/)

Catania Astrophysical Observatory
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
(http://www.bbso.njit.edu/)

Big Bear Solar Observatory
Other Links of Interest

http://www.spaceweather.com/
(http://www.spaceweather.com/)

Space "Weather"
http://www.astro.uva.nl/~michielb/sun/
(http://www.astro.uva.nl/~michielb/sun/)

A Trip Through The Sun
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html
(http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/nineplanets.html)

The Nine Planets