Observatories

• AAT - Anglo-Australian Telescope
• Bologna Astronomical Observatory, Loiano, 1.52m-Telescope
• CAHA - Calar Alto (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie)
• CFHT - Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Hawaii
• ESO - European Southern Observatory
  • [Garching]
  • [La Silla, Chile]
  • [New Technology, Chile]
  • [Very Large Telescope, Cerro Paranal]
• NOT - Nordic Optical Telescope
• Observatoire de Geneve (in french)
• Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma
  • [4.2m-William Herschel Telescope]
  • [2.5m-Isaac Newton Telescope]

• Carnegie Observatories
  • [Las Campanas Observatory]
  • [Magellan Telescope Project]
• Case Western Reserve University, Astronomy Dept.
  • [Nassau Station Robotic Telescope]
• Gemini Observatory, USA+Chile
• HET - Hobby Eberly Telescope, Mt. Fowlkes/Texas
• Keck Observatory, Mauna Kea/Hawaii
• Kitt Peak National Observatory KPNO/NOAO
• Lick Observatory
• Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff/Arizona
• McDonald Observatory
• Mt. Graham International Observatory (MGIO)
  • [Large Binocular Telescope Project]
  • [10m Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT)]
  • [Vatican Observatory/Arizona 1.8m Lennon telescope (VATT)]
• Mount Palomar, California (5m-Hale-Telescope)
• Mount Wilson, California
  • [2.5m-Hooker-Telescope]
• NOAO - National Solar Observatory
• SAO - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Mount Hopkins
  • [6.5m-Multiple Mirror Telescope MMT]

• SUBARU Telescope, Mauna Kea, Hawaii (NAOJ)

• Arecibo
• ATNF - Australia Telescope National Facility
• [Parkes Radio Telescope, 64m]
• [Australia Telescope Compact Array in Narrabri]
• [Mopra Observatory near Coonabarabran]
Effelsberg 100-m telescope (MPIfR)
• IRAM
• Jodrell Bank, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories (Manchester)
• Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (University of Cambridge)
• NRAO - National Radio Astronomy Observatory
VLA - Very Large Array
• VLBA - Very Long Baseline Array
• Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

• AVO - Astrophysical Virtual Observatory
• ASTROVIRTEL
• Science Archive Facility
• ASTROGRID

• NVO - National Virtual Observatory
• The Virtual Observatory Forum
• SkyView

• Australian Virtual Observatory

Astronomical Institutes

MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTES
• MPE Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching
• MPA Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching
• MPIA Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
• MPIK Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
• MPIfR Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn
• MPCh Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz
• AEI Albert-Einstein-Institut, MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam
• MPAE Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau

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STATE OBSERVATORIES AND INSTITUTES
• Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Heidelberg
• Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl
• Thüringer Landessternwarte, Tautenburg

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UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES
• Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik / Uni Heidelberg
• Universitätssternwarte Göttingen
• Astrophysikalisches Institut Jena und Universitätssternwarte
• IAAT Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Tübingen
  [Astronomie] - [Theoretische Astrophysik]
• Institut für Planetologie / Uni Münster
• Lehrstuhl für Astronomisches / Uni Würzburg

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BLAUE-LISTE INSTITUTES
• AIP Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
• Kiepenheuer Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg

• CEA Service d'Astrophysique (in french)

• University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy
• Imperial College

• Observatoire de Geneve (in french)

• CITA - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
• University of Calgary, Astronomy and Astrophysics

• CASA - Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy, University of Colorado (USA)
• CfA - Center for Astrophysics, Harvard (Boston)
• CfPA - Center for Particle Astrophysics
• Columbia University, Astronomy and Astrophysics
• University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy
• Institute for Advanced Study / Astrophysics
• Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• MIT Center for Space Research
• University of New Mexico, Institute for Astrophysics
• Rice University
• San Francisco State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy
• University of Texas, Department of Astronomy
• Yale University, Astronomy
• University of Washington, Department of Astronomy

• University of Sydney, Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics
• University of Sydney, Institute of Astronomy [New - Feb 16]

Organizations

• IAU - International Astronomical Union
• AAS - American Astronomical Society
• AG - Astronomische Gesellschaft
• ASA - Astronomical Society of Australia
• ASP - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• AURA - Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
• TPS - The Planetary Society

• ESA - European Space Agency
  • [Esrin / ESA Homepage] - [Estec / ESA Astrophysics] - [Esoc]
• NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • [GSFC] - [JSC] - [ARC] - [JPL] -
  • NASA Today - Science@NASA
• DLR - Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt
• ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• CSA - Canadian Space Agency

Astronomical Satellites

• Hipparcos (1989-1993)
• GAIA (preliminary concept, launch could be in 2012)

• COBE - Cosmic Background Explorer (1989-....)
• Planck (COBRAS/SAMBA)

• FIRST - The Far Infra-Red and Submillimetre Telescope
• IRAS
• ISO - Infrared Space Observatory (1995 - 1998)
• WIRE - Wide Field Infrared Explorer (1999 / failed)
• SIRTF - Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (launch: 2003)

• Hubble Space Telescope

• IUE (1978-1996)
• EUVE - Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (1992 - 2000)
• ORFEUS - Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (1993/1996)
• FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (1999)

• Exosat
• HEAO 1 - 1st High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
• HEAO 2 - 2nd High Energy Astrophysics Observatory = Einstein
• HEAO 3 - 3rd High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
• ROSAT (1990 - 1999)
  - [MPE] - [GSFC] - [Leicester]
  - [ROSAT Results Archive (RRA) at AIP] - [RRA at MPE] - [RRA at GSFC (ftp)]
• ASCA (1993 - 2001)
• BeppoSAX (1996 - ....)
• Chandra (AXAF) (launch: April 1999)
• ABRIXAS (1999 / failed)
• Astro-E (2000 / failed)
• Astro-E2 (launch: 2005)
• XMM (1999 - ....)
  - [XMM Science Operation Centre at ESA] - [XMM Survey Science Centre at Leicester] - [XMM Survey Science Center at AIP] - [XMM Survey Science Centre at MPE]

• COS-B (1975-1982) - [ at HEASARC]
• CGRO - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991 - 2000)
  - [COMPTEL] - [BATSE] - [EGRET] - [OSSE]
• INTEGRAL - International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (lauch: 2002)
• Swift - Gamma Ray Burst Explorer (launch: 2003)
• Spectrum-X-Gamma (launch: 2003)
  - US Spectrum-X-Gamma Coordination Facility
• GLAST - Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (launch: 2006)

Space Missions

• Clementine (1994)
  - [Clementine Mission Overview - at LLNL] - [Clementine Project Information - at NSSDC]
• Lunar Prospector (1998/99)

• ULYSSES (1990-....)
• SOHO - The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (1995 - ....)
  
• WIND & POLAR
• TRACE - Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (launch: Apr 1, 1998)

• Viking 1 and 2 (launch: 1975 - landed: 1976)
• Mars'96 (1996 / failed!)
• Mars Exploration Programm:
  - [Mars Global Surveyor 1996] - [Mars Pathfinder 1996]
  - [2001 Mars Odyssey]

• Pioneer 10 and 11 (launch: 1972/1973)
  --- Pioneer 10
  --- Pioneer 11
• Voyager (1977)
• Galileo (launch: 1989 - orbit: 1995 - 2003)

• Cassini (launch: 6 October 1997)
  - Huygens

• Deep Space Network (NASA)
• Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station (ESA)

Space Stations

• Skylab (1973-1979)
  --- Skylab Astronomical Experiments


• Salyut
  --- Salyut 1 --- Salyut 3 --- Salyut 4 / astronomy --- Salyut 5 --- Salyut 6 --- Salyut 7


• Mir (1986-2001)
  --- Shuttle-Mir


• International Space Station ISS
  --- SPACEHAB

Press Releases, Newsletters, etc.

• IAU Circulars (Search)


• ESO Press Releases and Photos
• STScI: Hubble Space Telescope News
• CfA: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Press Releases
• AAO: Anglo-Australian Observatory
  • Press Releases, Newsletter
• NRAO: National Radio Astronomy Observatory Press Releases
• SOHO: What's New? - ESA's Science News


• ESA Newsletter (Space Science News)
• NOAO Newsletter
• IRAM Newsletter


• IAU: Astronomical Headlines

Literature

• ApJ - The Astrophysical Journal / Electronic Edition
• AJ - The Astronomical Journal / Electronic Edition
• A&A - Astronomy and Astrophysics (Letters and Main Journal)
• A&AS - Astronomy and Astrophysics (Supplement Series)
• AN - Astronomische Nachrichten
• MNRAS - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• PASJ - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
• PASP - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific / Electronic Edition
• New Astronomy


• Nature (registration required !)
• Science (registration required !)
• New Scientist
• American Scientist [New - Feb 24]

• A&A - Astronomy and Astrophysics (CDS)
• A&AS - Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series (CDS)
• PASP - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (CDS)


• Abstract Service (NASA, ADS) - query search


• Abstracts (ESO, AstroWeb)

• astro-ph - automated archive for astrophysics preprints since 4/92
  - in USA - in Italy

Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, etc.

• CFHT: International Astronomy Meetings

Images

• Hubble Space Telescope Pictures - Latest Releases
  • The Hubble Deep Field
• ESO Photo Gallery (areas, buildings, telescopes)
• W.M.Keck Observatory: Photo Gallery
• Subaru Telescope: Picture Gallery

• SOHO gallery (space probe, instruments) [NASA]
• ISO Science Gallery [ESA]
• Galileo Images & Image Gallery
  [Ganymede 1] - [Ganymede 2] - [Callisto 3] - [Europa 4]
• Images from High-Energy Astrophysics missions [HEASARC]


• NASAs Planetary Photojournal
• JPL Images & Videos

AstroWeb and other astronomical Resources

• AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
  • [CDS] - [ESO] - [ESA,Vilspa]
  • [STScI] - [NRAO] - [MSSSO]
  • [WWW Virtual Library (La Plata)]


• SIMBAD - Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
• NED - NASA Extragalactic Database
• ADC - Astronomical Data Center [NASA]
• ADS - Astrophysics Data System [NASA/CfA]
• ESO Science Archive Facility


• Digitized Sky Survey [at STScI]
• Digitized Sky Survey [at ESO]
• HST Guide Star Catalogue [at ESO]


• Search for persons, institutes, or addresses [Heidelberg, LSW]
• StarHeads - personal WWW pages of professional astronomers [CDS]
• Astronomers with Home Pages [AstroPlace]


• MPE: Astronomy Resources (AstR)

Astronomical Data Analysis

• IRAF - Image Reduction and Analysis Facility [NOAO] - [ESO Mirror]
• MIDAS - Munich Image Data Analysis System [ESO]
• SkyCat [ESO]
• SAOimage


• EXSAS - EXtended Scientific Analysis System [MPE]
• XANADU [NASA]


• FITS - Flexible Image Transport System [NRAO]
• FTOOLS [NASA]