Hard (?) Science, Modern-day Theory, and Other Useful
Resources
- Astrometry & Astrophysics
- Astronaut(ic)s
- Astronomy
- Beanstalks
- Combat Walkers
- Computer Technology
- Fuel Cells
- Language Information
- Living and Working in Space
- Military Resource Sites
- Model Rocketry
- News
- Other
- Planetary Data
- SETI
- Software
- Solar/Wind Energy
- Spacesuits
- Starship Propulsion
- Taxonomical Systematics
- Astrometry & Astrophysics:
- John G. Cramer's Alternate
View columns, from _Analog_ (Astronomy/Physics).
- Jo Grant & Ben Lin's
ChView star mapping
software.
- ESA's Astrophysics HomePage.
- GAIA: The Galactic Census
Project (The future of astrometry after Hipparcos).
- Claus Bornich's It's
Full of Stars star/system mapping freeware.
- PC Space
2 (see the night sky from other worlds).
More
info. Also available in French.
- Jeffrey Carl's Stellarium.
- Wincell Chung's 3D
Starmaps.
- Kurt Foge's 3-D
Starmaps of Nearby Stars, the Pleiades, Orion, and the Local Group: How
to Make Stellariums, a Scale Model of the Solar System, and a Brief
Explanation About Interstellar Travel. (The title pretty much says
it all, eh?)
- Darren D. Garber's Other
Worlds, Distant Suns A catalog of extrasolar systems (formerly at:
http://garber.simplenet.com/).
- NASA's NStars Database
(search nearby stars by name, range, spectral type, and perform
co-ordinate transformations).
- Vargas'
Astronomy Data Archives [Missing].
- Astronaut(ic)s:
- Astronomy:
- Beanstalks:
- Combat Walkers:
- Computer Technology:
- Beowulf Clusters at the Center for
Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
- MIT Press'
How
to Build a Beowulf, by Thomas L. Sterling, John Salmon, Donald J.
Becker, and Daniel F. Savarese.
- Fuel Cells:
- Language Information:
- "Living and Working in Space" Sites:
- Military Resource Sites:
- Model Rocketry:
- News:
- Other:
- Planetary Data:
- Astronomers Find
Saturn-sized Extrasolar Planets. [Missing?]
- Astronomical Data Center (No
longer maintained).
- Calvin J. Hamilton's Solar Views
in English, Spanish, Portugese, French, and German. Views and data on
the solar system, including Icosahedral
map projections of Callisto, Earth, Ganymede, Jupiter, Mars, the
Moon, Neptune, the Sun, and Venus.
- Dr. Geoff Marcy's Discovery
of Extrasolar Planets HomePage.
- Online
Atlases.
- Planetary
Fact Sheets from the National
Space Science Data Center.
- PlanetScapes.
- SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence):
- Downloadable Software of Interest to 2300AD Fans:
- Jo Grant & Ben Lin's
ChView star mapping
software.
- Claus Bornich's It's
Full of Stars star/system mapping freeware.
- Patrick Murphy's
Mad
Irishman Productions 2300AD Publications! A 2300AD Referee's Screen,
character sheet, new weapons, a robots system, and even a short psionics
system, all in Adobe .PDF files!
- PC Space
2 (see the night sky from other worlds).
More
info. Also available in French.
- Wincell Chung's 3D
Starmaps.
- Max Lambertini's
Warp Assistant Router Program (allows you to
chart routes, as well as generate system/planetary data), star maps, and
the PlaceMaker (geographical feature-naming) and SolarSys (system
generator) software.
- Solar/Wind Energy:
- Spacesuits:
- Starship Propulsion:
- Taxonomical Systematics:
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