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Ask the Astronomer: http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/qanda.html. This site, run by astronomer Sten Odenwald, is no longer active, but lists 3001 answers to questions asked in the mid-1990s. They are nicely organized by topic.

Ask the Experts at PhysLink: http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/index.cfm. Lots of physics questions answered, with some astronomy as well, at this physics education site. Most answers are by physics teachers, not astronomers. Still taking new questions.

Ask the Space Scientist: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html. An archive of questions about the Sun and its interactions with Earth, answered by astronomer Sten Odenwald. Not accepting new questions.

Curious about Astronomy?: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu. An ask-an-astronomer site run by graduate students and professors of astronomy at Cornell University. Has searchable archives and is still answering new questions.

Miscellaneous sites of interest

A Guide to Careers in Astronomy: http://aas.org/files/resources/Careers-in-Astronomy.pdf. From the American Astronomical Society.

Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic’s Resource List: http://www.astrosociety.org/pseudo. Readings and websites that analyze such claims as astrology, UFOs, moon-landing denial, creationism, human faces on other worlds, astronomical disasters, and more.

Astronomy for Beginners: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-information/. A page to find resources for getting into amateur astronomy.

Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy and Physics: http://www.astrosociety.org/scifi.

Space Calendar: http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/. Ron Baalke at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory keeps a listing of what space events happened on each day of the year; great if you need a reason to have a space-theme party.

Unheard Voices: The Astronomy of Many Cultures: http://multiverse.ssl.berkeley.edu/multicultural. A guide to resources about the astronomy of native, African, Asian, and other non-Western groups.

Selected websites for viewing and downloading astronomical images

The top image sites

Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html. Two space scientists scour the internet and feature one interesting astronomy image each day.

European Southern Observatory Photo Gallery: http://www.eso.org/public/images/. Magnificent color images from ESO’s largest telescopes. See the topical menu at the top.

Hubble Space Telescope Images: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/browse/images/. Starting at this page, you can select from among many hundreds of Hubble pictures by subject. Other ways to approach these images are through the more public-oriented Hubble Gallery (http://hubblesite.org/gallery/) or the European ESO site (http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/).

National Optical Astronomy Observatories Image Gallery: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/. Growing archive of images from the many telescopes that are at the United States’ National Observatories.

Planetary Photojournal: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html. Features thousands of images from NASA’s extensive set of planetary exploration missions with a good search menu. Does not include most of the missions from other countries.

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