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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.

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.
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.
Asahi
Aurora Classroom from the
University of Alaska
Exploratorium Aurora Page
The
Northern Lights
NASA Eclipse Page.
Sky & Telescope Eclipse Page.
Hermit
Eclipse Page.
Eclipse Images.
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.
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
Astronomy in Motion
- activities
related to the Sun, Sun light, and the season.
From
the
Space Science Institute:
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
Thursday's Classroom
includes a number of lesson plans dealing with the Sun
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.
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
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.
NASA
Space Science Education Resource Directory
a convenient way to
Windows to the Universe
Astronomy Picture of the Day -
Each day a different image or photograph of our
Thursday's
Classroom
- Provides a lasting connection between NASA's
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)
ACE,
the Advanced Composition Explorer, investigates the Heliosphere
TRACE
- Provides high resolution images of the Sun from space. Launched in
1998.
IMAGE
- an instrument for
observing activity in Earth's magnetosphere.
CLUSTER
- a set of four European
spacecraft which was also
launched this year.
GENESIS
launched
in 2001 to collect samples of the solar wind and
Living with a Star
- A NASA initiative to develop the understanding of how the
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
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
List
of
NASA Space Science Missions past
present and future. Lots of links.
Other
solar astronomy WWW servers.

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