How Hot is that Star?

Site includes: Archival Data, Descriptive Information, Images, Educational Activities
Target audience: General Public, Middle School, High School, Teachers

Lesson on how the temperature of a star is determined. Allows students and teachers to browse through facts, data and knowledge that will provide information directly related to this topic, providing a better understanding of the answer to this very important question. Teacher and Student sections

SOHO Explore!

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Target audience: High School, Teachers

Education and Outreach page of Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Mainly focused on Teachers. Includes lesson plans, information on SOHO and related education materials, upcoming Sun and Sun-earth connection education events, and information about the Sun and Solar Wind.

Space Scientists on Line

Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers

Opportunities for Web chats with Space Scientist. Run by NASA QuestChat

Solar Music

Site includes: Descriptive Information, Images, Educational Activities
Target audience: Elementary School, Middle School, Teachers

Helioseismology activities for scientists to use when visiting classrooms.

Sunspots and the Solar Cycle

Site includes: Archival Data, Real-Time Data, Descriptive Information, Images, Movies
Target audience: General Public, High School, Teachers, Under Grad

Lots of information about sunspots and related topics

The Nine Planets

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Target audience: General Public, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad

Very useful site containing basic information concerning the different members of the solar system and extensive links to related sites.

Space Science News

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Target audience: General Public

An attractive, user-friendly on-line "newspaper" sponsored by the Space Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Every "issue" contains several recent headline stories on topics in space physics, astrophysics, and earth science. The stories are clearly written, provide good background information, and are amply illustrated with colorful and well-chosen graphics (including movies and animation). Links to many other related sites, including a featured "site of the day," are provided.

Today's Space Weather

Site includes: Real-Time Data, Images
Target audience: General Public, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

An authoritative site for information on current space weather, provided by the Space Environment Center. See solar images, solar geophysical forcasts and parameters, and links to data sites. Also, links to education and outreach sites are available.

The Aurora Page

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Target audience: General Public, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

A nice page with lots of information about the aurora. Images, summary information, forcasts, and links to other interesting web pages with auroral information or related data and content.

'Public Connection' Cu-SeeMe Ask-the-Scientist Videoconferences

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers

This site provides instructions about how to participate in Cu-SeeMe Videoconferences arranged by the Rice University Public Connections project. A powerful opportunity for students, teachers, and the public to talk to and see scientists as they respond to questions.

Current Solar Wind Conditions

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Target audience: General Public, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

This site provides information on space weather conditions and solar wind conditions in a graphical format. Find out if solar activity is quiet, active or disturbed, and about solar wind parameters. Links are provided that provide additional information and data.

Ryan and Brandon's Space Weather Web Site

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers

A web site about space weather prepared by two middle school students as a summer project supported by the NSF Young Scholars Program at the MIT Haystack Observatory. The site includes descriptions of aurora, the solar cycle, coronal mass ejections, effects of space weather at earth, geomagnetic and ionospheric disturbances, solar flares, the solar wind, and sunspots. It also has images and numerous links to other sites.

CEDAR Storm Study

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Target audience: Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

The CEDAR Storm Study is a cooperative effort among scientists in the U.S.A. and overseas in the study of specific ionosphere/thermosphere storm intervals with particularly good data coverage. This web site includes announcements, lists of papers, descriptions of workshops, lists of research projects, and links to related sites.

International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP)

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

This is the home page for the NASA ISTP program. It includes a public outreach page which has lots of good information about geospace and the spacecraft and scientists who study it, and resources for students and teachers.

Space Physics and Astronomy Outreach at Rice University

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate

This is the public outreach index of the Dept. of Space Physics & Astronomy at Rice University. It has links to several public outreach pages at Rice and elsewhere, with emphasis on those which include multimedia

National Society of Hispanic Physicists

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Target audience: General Public, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

This is the home page for the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. Here you can find information about the society: their goals, activities and our officers. There is also information about other organizations that work to improve the participation of minorities in Science, provide links to other Homepages related to Physics and the activity of the Hispanic community in general.

SwRI Space Physics: Home Page

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Target audience: Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

Nearly the ultimate space physics home page. It has a very comprehensive collection of links to space phyics and related web pages, including data archives, images, and journals

ISPEC - International Space Physics Educational Consortium

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

The home page of the International Space Physics Educational Consortium. It provides the latest space science news, information about global warming, satellite imagery, space science missions and space science courses. You can also test your knowledge and follow the links to fun and games.

NSSDC Photo Gallery

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Target audience: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

Large collection of NASA photos dealing with the planets, earth and moon, asteroids, comets, the sun, spacecraft, and astronomical objects

Oulu Space Physics Textbook

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Target audience: Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

An on-line textbook about space physics, this includes text and descriptive information on plasma physics, the sun, heliosphere, solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and atmosphere, as well as phenomena of interest including auroras, geomagnetic activity and pulsations and cosmic rays. There are also sections on instrumentation and magnetic field models.

Space Physics Models Home Page

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Target audience: Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

This site allows you to actually run selected models maintained at the National Space Science Data Center, including models of the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. It provides information about the models and links to related sites.

MIT Haystack Observatory

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Target audience: General Public, Middle School, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

The home page for the MIT Haystack Observatory includes information about Haystack's research programs in Radio Astronomy, VLBI Astronomy and Geodesy and Space Physics. It also has links to pages describing Haystack's present and past educational programs, including Research Experiences for Undergraduates, their Young Scholars Program and their Radio Astronomy Undergraduate Research Educational Initiative.

Madrigal Database

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Target audience: Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

MIT Haystack Observatory, home of the Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar, has supported an on-line incoherent scatter database since 1980. The Observatory continues to maintain and develop its database system, known as Madrigal, which now contains data from a variety of upper-atmosphere research instruments.

Real-Time Data from WIND

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Target audience: Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

See real-time data from the WIND spacecraft, a component of the International Solar Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative. Data on solar wind magnetic field, density, and velocity are available. Also, links are provided to general information about WIND and archival data.

High-Altitude Observatory Homepage

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

Find out about research activities at the High Altitude Observatory, located public about the Sun and its interaction with Earth, as well as notices of workshop opportunities.

Space Science Institute

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Target audience: General Public, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Scientists/Researchers

The Space Science Institute (SSI) web site contains information on a variety of topics of interest to researchers, educators, and the general public including: space weather, travelling exhibits (Electric Space, Marsquest), downloadable curricula, and education workshops for scientists. SSI is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to combine space science research with science education. By linking research, education and outreach programs we improve communication among scientists, educators, and the general public.

Space Weather Center

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Target audience: General Public, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Scientists/Researchers

The Space Weather Center contains space weather resources for educators and the media. It includes background information on space weather, Q&As, curricula, science briefs and reports, an image gallery, press releases, current forecasts and more. The Space Weather Center is part of the Space Weather Outreach Program managed by the Space Science Institute (www.spacescience.org) and funded through NSF and NASA.

University of California at Berkeley Science Education Gateway

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Target audience: Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers

A wonderful resource for teachers to locate classroom activities for use in their K-12 classrooms on topics ranging from space science to solar system exploration.

Project INSPIRE

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Target audience: Middle School, High School, Teachers

A project dedicated to educating students about naturally occurring and manmade radio waves. INSPIRE (for Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments) allows students to observe very low frequency radio signals in the Earth's magnetosphere, working with over 200 other observing teams across the US.

Windows to the Universe

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad

A nearly comprehensive presentation of information and images on the Earth and Space Sciences, including interdisciplinary arts and humanities content. Information is provided at three levels of content, corresponding to upper elementary, middle, and high school levels. A supplementary CD is available.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Homepage

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad, Graduate, Scientists/Researchers

Entry to one of the richest sites on the web for space science information, including educational information, news, mission information, images, and a wealth of data resources. Be sure to give yourself time to explore this site!

Passport to Knowledge Live from the Sun

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Target audience: General Public, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, Teachers, Under Grad

LIVE FROM THE SUN is the latest interactive learning site in the PASSPORT TO KNOWLEDGE (PTK) series. LIVE FROM THE SUN (LFSUN) features the most recent discoveries about the Sun and provides access to amazing information and beautiful images from the best sources in the US and around the world. LFSUN will continue with updated Web and video materials through solar maximum in 2000.