Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.

Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.

Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids.

Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star.

A brief description of how stars were named, with links, references, and a table of Western star names and their meanings.

The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.

Pictures of all kinds of Stars provided by the European Southern Observatory.

Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them

The largest organization for variable stars: provides professional and amateur collaboration, research, and analysis of variable star observations.

Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available.

About a new generation of optical interferometers, which uses two almost identical signals to give more information about these celestial bodies.

Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.

Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness,

Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.

Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window.

A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.

A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.

A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.

Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...

Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD,

In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.