Middle & Upper School Library: Astronomy

Recommended Podcasts – available on iTunes

·     Astronomy Cast   - They have a show on each of our topics

·     Universe Today 

·     Hubblecast

·     NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

·     NASACast Video

      NASA's Curious Universe

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Apollo in Real Time 

• NASA 
•  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• NASA’s page on our solar system
•  Astronomy magazine
• Sky & Telescope magazine
• European Astronomy magazine
• the Planetary Society
• SPACE.com
• SPACEX
• National Geographic Science
• New Horizons-Pluto
• SETI Institute

• Phil Plait – Bad Astronomy

• Chandra XRay Space Telescope - www.chandra.harvard.edu 
   
  Spitzer Space Telescope - www.spitzer.caltech.edu
   
  James Webb Space Telescope - https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
   
  The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Hubble 

Earth Observatory (NASA)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

European Space Agency

Each satellite will have one or more of its own page on the NASA site.

Link to the Mitaka and Stellarium programs.  Mitaka can only be downloaded to a Windows based computer.  The first link is the program itself and the second link is a how to video.
 

https://4d2u.nao.ac.jp/html/program/mitaka/index_E.html

https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=636

The other program that Don mentioned is Stellarium. 

https://stellarium.org/  (versions here to download to any computer)

or they also have a web based version - https://stellarium-web.org/

Recommended app for your phone is Sky Safari - https://skysafariastronomy.com/  The AR version (for $2.99) would be the best and most economical choice. 

And lastly, here is a link to the Evening Sky maps.  You can print a map for each month.  I really like how it provides specific dates for viewing objects with your eye, binoculars or a telescope.  It is amazing how much you can see just with your eyes.

www.skymaps.com

Simulation Examples:

 - Solar System Simulator

NASA’s Eyes on Earth, Solar System and Exoplanets

Crash Course Astronomy