The Best Links Under the Sun

Solar Links:

SDAC Latest Images
SOHO Latest Images Archive
How is the Solar Corona Heated?
Stanford Solar Center.
The Nine Planets Sun Page.
Sunblock 99.
Royal Observatory Sun Page.
Solarviews.

Sun-Earth Connection

Space Weather
Space Weather and how it affects our lives.
The Space Weather Bureau.
Today's Space Weather from NOAA.
What is happening on the Sun and in space right now?
The Space Weather Center: from the Space Science Institute
Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere.
Space Weather Resources.

Sun and Climate
Stanford Solar Center - Global Warming.
NOAA - The Sun-Climate Connection.
The Sun-Climate Question: Is there a connection?
Influence of Cosmic Rays on Climate.
Sun Earth Connection at NASA.

Aurora Borealis
Asahi Aurora Classroom from the University of Alaska
Exploratorium Aurora Page
The Northern Lights

Eclipse

NASA Eclipse Page.
Sky & Telescope Eclipse Page.
Hermit Eclipse Page.
Eclipse Images.

Educational Resources

LEARNING ABOUT THE SUN
Sun-Earth Day Series of events highlighting NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Research
Solar Week A recurring week long program intended to spark pre- and early teen girls' interest in pursuing careers in science through the study of recent solar physics discoveries.
The Student Observation Network Track a Solar Storm! Also try out the Sun-Earth viewer.
Solar Max 2000 Information, activities, images, and more.
Sunblock 99.
Stanford Solar Center.
The Sun: A Pictorial Introduction - An in-depth solar "slide show."
NASA Observatorium Sun exhibit
The Solar Flare Theory Page - Solar flares and related aspects of solar physics.
A Sun Fact Sheet from the NASA National Space Science Data Center.

LESSON PLANS
SOHO Lesson Plans. Grades 6-8 and 9-12.
Solar-Music - Helioseismology lessons for grade school.
How Hot is that Star? - An internet investigation into how we determine the
temperature of the Sun and other stars. Grades 7-12.
Astronomy in Motion - activities related to the Sun, Sun light, and the season.
Grades 7-12.
From the Space Science Institute:
A Family Guide to the Sun Grades 1-8.
Solarscapes: Sunspots and Rotation - Observe different features on the Sun and how they change. Grades 6-8.

Space Science Activities for Junior High and High School from IMAGE/POETRY.
IMAGERS - Activities centered on light, color, spectra, and remote sensing. Grades 5-8.
Solar Physics and Terrestrial Effects - A curriculum guide from the
Space Environment Center. Grades 7-12.
Thursday's Classroom includes a number of lesson plans dealing with the Sun
and Space Weather topics. Grades 2-4 and 5-8.
Sun-Centered Physics - High School level lessons plans relating to the Sun and SOHO.
The Event Inventor's Sun Activities - Sundials, Longitude from a stick, Eclipse projects.

PROGRAMS
All About the Sun - A live web broadcast brought to you from the Stanford Solar Center
QuestChat On-Line Chats with Space Scientists from SOHO and other projects.
The NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum.
Space Science Education Outreach page.
Live from the Sun - SOHO and other observatories and spacecraft are featured
in these programs from Passport to Knowledge.
Quest - NASA's K-12 internet initiative.
Astronomy On-Line -Web site of the European Association for Astronomy Education .
The American Astronomical Society's education links.

GENERAL ASTRONOMY EDUCATION
NASA Space Science Education Resource Directory a convenient way to
find NASA space science products for use in classrooms, science museums, planetariums,
and other settings.
Windows to the Universe
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our
fascinating universe with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Thursday's Classroom - Provides a lasting connection between NASA's
latest research and the classroom environment.
StarChild - For grades K-4 and 5-8.
Imagine the Universe - For grades 9 and up.
The Nine Planets - Multimedia tour of the solar system.

Other Missions & Spacecraft

National Solar Observatory,Sunspot, NM. - Images and more.
Yohkoh - X-rays of the Sun! (1991-2001) ... and the Yohkoh Public Outreach page.
Ulysses - The first spacecraft to fly over the Sun's poles.
The International Solar Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP)

Coordinates observations of the interactions between the Sun and Earth. It
includes observations from many spacecraft including SOHO, WIND, POLAR, and GEOTAIL.
The ISTP Outreach & Education page.
What happens when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hits the earth?
Check the current speed of the solar wind.
ACE, the Advanced Composition Explorer, investigates the Heliosphere
and Cosmic Rays. You can learn more about those in their Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center
TRACE - Provides high resolution images of the Sun from space. Launched in 1998.
There is also a TRACE Outreach Page.
IMAGE - an instrument for observing activity in Earth's magnetosphere.
Visit their POETRY (Public Outreach, Education, Teaching, and Reaching Youth) site.
CLUSTER - a set of four European spacecraft which was also launched this year.
Cluster studies the magnetosphere from four points of view.
GENESIS launched in 2001 to collect samples of the solar wind and
bring them back to Earth.
Living with a Star - A NASA initiative to develop the understanding of how the
Sun-Earth connection affects life and society.
RHESSI observes X-rays from solar flares. They also have outreach pages.
STEREO - Two spacecraft situated to get a stereo view of the Sun and solar wind. To be launched in 2006.
Solar-B - The next Japanese lead mission to observe the Sun. It will study the interactions of the
Sun's corona and magnetic field. To be launched in 2006.
SDO - The Solar Dynamics Observatory. the fist of the Living with a Star missions, set to study the solar processes which influence the Earth and space weather. For launch in 2008.
Spartan 201 - A shuttle-launched and retrieved satellite observing the Sun's corona.
Marshall Space Flight Center Solar Physics Group pages include lots of information about solar physics
Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics outreach pages
contains information about the solar wind and Earth's space environment.
List of NASA Space Science Missions past present and future. Lots of links.
Other solar astronomy WWW servers.

Planets, Stars, and Systems:

Astrobiology.
Extrasolar Planet Search.
Constellations.
The 88 Astronomical Constellations.