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Stars are self-luminous gaseous spheroidal celestial bodies of great mass which produce energy by means of nuclear fusion. Listed sites may include sky maps and constellations, types of stars including giants and dwarfs, and related subjects such as pulsars and quasars.

Subcategories

• Binary Stars
• Black Holes
• Dwarf Stars
• Names
• Neutron Stars
• Novae and Supernovae
• Planetary Nebulae
• Pulsars
• Star Clusters
• Stellar Evolution
• The Sun
• Variable Stars

Resources in This Category

• Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory

  http://ad.usno.navy.mil/
  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.

• Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology

  http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/
  Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.

• Bright Star Catalogue

  http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc
  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, SAO or FK5 numbers.

• Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies

  http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~gmackie/DarkStar/alpha.html
  One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.

• Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas

  http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html
  A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.

• How Stuff Works: Stars

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm
  Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.

• Laser Star Astrophysics

  http://laserstars.org/
  Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.

• Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors

  http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/MSI/
  Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.

• Measuring the Stars

  http://www.krysstal.com/thestars.html
  Article providing information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.

• Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets

  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-parade-of-new-planets/
  Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.

• Space Telescope Science Institute

  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/category/galaxy/quasar_active%20nucleus/
  A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.

• Spectra and Spectra Analysis

  http://osservareilcielo.astrofili.org/spetring.htm
  A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars.

• Star Data Pages

  http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm
  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, period, type of variability).

• Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com

  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
  Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...

• Stargazing - A Handbook for Night Sky Tour Guides

  http://www.rocketmime.com/astronomy/index.html
  A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.

• Stars and Galaxies

  http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html
  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.

• The Constellations since 1996

  http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
  Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.

• The Formation of Binary Stars

  http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
  Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.

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