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Astrobites

Every day, Astrobites posts a plain-language summary of a recent paper from a different subfield of astronomy, meant to be read in five minutes or less. A rotating team of graduate students from around the world writes the daily digest with the goal of making technical papers accessible to undergraduate students in the physical sciences. While spotlighting a piece of current research and...

https://astrobites.org/
Astrophysical Virtual Observatory

At this website, the European Commission and six European organizations discuss the creation of the Astrophysical Virtual Observatory Project (AVO) for European astronomy. Visitors can discover the function of a Virtual Observatory (VO) as "an international astronomical community-based initiative" aimed at allowing "global electronic access to the available astronomical data archives of space and...

https://www.euro-vo.org/
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Bringing Star Power to Earth

The kind of heat that the scientists at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California generate most days is pretty unusual - unless you happen to be sitting in the deep core of an active star. Using the world’s largest laser, the researchers are able to exceed temperatures of 100 million degrees and create pressures that exceed 100 billion times the Earth’s atmosphere. Visit the...

https://lasers.llnl.gov/
California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics

The California Institute for Physics and Astrophysics "is dedicated to exploring fundamental problems in physics (e.g. gravitation, inertia, the nature of mass) as well as very-long range technological possibilities that may emerge from the properties of the quantum vacuum." The Web site offers information about the organization as well as online articles such as Mass Medium, Nature of Mass,...

http://www.calphysics.org/index.html
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Global Jet Watch

The Global Jet Watch Project was founded at the University of Oxford in order to explore fascinating questions about the universe. For instance, how does matter behave in the vicinity of black holes in our galaxy? What is striking about the project is the use of five 0.5 meter telescopes which have been strategically placed around the globe - in Chile, Eastern and Western Australia, India, and...

https://www.globaljetwatch.net
Goldstone: A Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Interactions in the Moon Using Large-Aperture Radio Antennas

The Goldstone Lunar Ultra-high Energy neutrino experiment (GLUE), a joint project of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and UCLA, searches for 10ns microwave pulses from a lunar regolith (meteor ejecta believed to have struck the moon) using two large telescopes. Visitors to this Website can download a detailed, scientific description of the experiment entitled "New Limits on a Diffuse Flux of > 100 EeV...

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~moonemp/public/index.html
JINA: The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) was created to "foster interdisciplinary collaborations, workshops, research program, and educational initiatives at its participating institutions as well as within the field of nuclear astrophysics at large." Researchers can download the latest JINA-related articles. Students and educators can find out about outreach programs, lectures, and...

https://www.jinaweb.org/
Laboratory of Astrophysics and Surface Science

Syracuse University's Laboratory of Astrophysics and Surface Science developed this Web site devoted primarily to its research in the "study of physical and chemical processes occurring in the interstellar medium." Educators and students can learn the details of the apparatus used to study hydrogen recombination reactions on material surfaces in interstellar conditions. The site features...

https://astro.syr.edu/?redirect
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NASA: Astrophysics Science Division

What goes on in outer space? This is a fascinating question and an ongoing line of human inquiry. The Astrophysics Science Division of NASA conducts a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics and fundamental physics, and this site provides access to information on the Division's projects, publications, and research agenda. Visitors can dive right in by looking over the Press Releases &...

https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/astrophysics/
National Space Science Data Center

Part of the Astrophysics Data Facility of the Space Science Data Operations Office at NASA, the Astronomical Data Center provides astronomical catalogs and journal tables to the scientific community. The site includes nine data categories: Astrometric and Positional, Photometric, Spectroscopic, Cross Identifications, Combined and Derived, Miscellaneous, Nonstellar and Extended Objects, Radio...

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/
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