Links to Other Worlds

Before you zoom off to other corners of the cosmos, perhaps you'd like a guide to several fun places that will stir the imagination and engage your interest.  These places are some of the other worlds I like to visit from time to time, and they aren't that far away.  (Scroll down for a full list.)

Read and hear a daily installment of StarDate, featuring the radio talent of Sandy Wood, who also lends her voice to the audio descriptions included with Celestron's personal planetarium known as Sky Scout.  This nifty device makes a great stocking stuffer!

And here's talent of a musical sort.  If you're interested in instrumental music to accompany your nightly stargazing, check out the piano melodies of a rising star, Giselle Bonfaire, right here.

Find something new in the cosmos, such as news about outer space or about America's civilian space program, every day at Space.com, which also produces the planetarium program known as Starry Night.

Read what others are saying about the mysteries of the cosmos and wonders of the night sky at the columnists' page of Astronomy.com.

All sorts of listings for observatories, telescopes, space art, planetariums, amateur activities, astronomy education, and much more, all here.

A really cool set of cosmic pix new every day from this website known as Astronomy Picture of the Day.

Need to know the exact time?  Visit the U. S. Naval Observatory at this website here.  There you will also find weekly sky updates, storm warnings, and all things of importance both meteorologic and oceanographic.

Don't like our own Solar System?  Build you own right here!

Perhaps the kids will enjoy their own website here with all sorts of fun activities for the youngsters and their teachers.

Of course, you shouldn't stare at the Sun, but here is the safest place to do it.  See the latest images from SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in outer space.

And, if you'd like to know the weather elsewhere in the Solar System, check out space weather here.

Have you seen the International Space Station moving brightly across the sky?  Go to this website to find the date, time, and where to look to see $100 billion of spacecraft in orbit.  At that price, it ought to be bright!

Many more sites to come!

If there are other useful astronomy sites you may wish to see, please contact me at roy@roykaelin.com.

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