Astronomy Links

A. Bay Area Interests:

• 1. Planetarium:
  • Morrison Planetarium
  • William Knox Holt Planetarium
• 2. Science Museum:
  • The Exploratorium
  • Lawrence Hall of Science
• 3. Public Outreach:
  • San Francisco Amateur Astronomers
• 4.Astronomy Education (Undergraduate & Graduate):
  • University of California, Berkeley (Cal)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • San Francisco State University
  • Stanford University
• 5. Astronomy Education (K-12):
  • Hands-on-Universe
  • Project ASTRO
  • Chabot Observatory
  • Lick Observatory

B. National Institutes in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• 2. National Optical Astronomical Observatories
• 3. National Radio Astronomical Observatory
• 4. Space Telescope Science Institute

C. Selected List of Ground-Based Large Scale Sky Survey:

• 1. Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
• 2. The Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
• 3. Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-centimeters (FIRST)
• 4. The Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP)

D. Professional Organization in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. American Astronomical Society
• 2. Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• 3. The International Astronomical Union

E. Top-Notch Research Institutes in Astronomy & Astrophysics:

• 1. East Coast Region:
  • Harvard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Princeton University
  • The Institute of Advanced Study
• 2. Midwest Region:
  • The University of Chicago (Chicago)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Northwestern University
• 3. West Coast Region:
  • The University of Arizona
  • California Institute of Technology (CalTech)
  • University of Califronia, Berkeley (Cal)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Washington

F. Other Useful Links: