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Simfish
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Most of the sites here aren't very helpful for learning astrophysics. However, they are amazingly useful for learning more about astronomy in general (and many cover far more than what you will find in any book or textbook)
http://www.solstation.com/ - amazing amounts of detail for many stars
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sowlist.html
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
http://www.3dgalaxymap.com/
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/23 - amazing maps
For site discovery, this really helps: http://www.google.com/search?q=related:solstation.com (or just google related:[domain address for any astronomy website you really like])
Blogs:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/10516082170111880850/label/!astro - My astronomy blogroll - note that I tend to be more into the technical side and less into the popular side of astro so you won't see "Bad Astronomy" in there.
Basically, for the technically inclined (but not overly so), some of the best blogs are at http://invaderxan.livejournal.com/, http://www.centauri-dreams.org/, http://lifeunbounded.blogspot.com/, http://exoplanetology.blogspot.com/, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/, http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/, and http://oklo.org/.
Crowdsourcing astronomy: (the stuff you do is very basic, but the papers are quite technical)
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Link Directories:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/links.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/astro (reddits also have their own discussions, and are very up-to-date)
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/astronomy
http://www.delicious.com/tag/astronomy (huge numbers of links, some very nice, many trivial. But at least very up-to-date [like reddit])
Also, a very interesting way to see the more interesting discussions is to arrange them in order from "most replies" to "least replies". Here are some examples:
https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=replycount
http://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/top/
Very basic tutorials:
http://donald.phast.umass.edu/~arny/indextut.html
http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/anamunn/Astro500/tutorials_astro101.html
Others:
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/index.htm - not much astro, but really amazing for fields necessary for astro
http://www.solstation.com/ - amazing amounts of detail for many stars
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sowlist.html
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/universe/
http://www.3dgalaxymap.com/
http://galaxymap.org/drupal/node/23 - amazing maps
For site discovery, this really helps: http://www.google.com/search?q=related:solstation.com (or just google related:[domain address for any astronomy website you really like])
Blogs:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/10516082170111880850/label/!astro - My astronomy blogroll - note that I tend to be more into the technical side and less into the popular side of astro so you won't see "Bad Astronomy" in there.
Basically, for the technically inclined (but not overly so), some of the best blogs are at http://invaderxan.livejournal.com/, http://www.centauri-dreams.org/, http://lifeunbounded.blogspot.com/, http://exoplanetology.blogspot.com/, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/, http://blogs.zooniverse.org/galaxyzoo/, and http://oklo.org/.
Crowdsourcing astronomy: (the stuff you do is very basic, but the papers are quite technical)
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/
Link Directories:
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/links.html
http://www.reddit.com/r/astro (reddits also have their own discussions, and are very up-to-date)
http://www.reddit.com/r/space
http://www.reddit.com/r/astronomy
http://www.delicious.com/tag/astronomy (huge numbers of links, some very nice, many trivial. But at least very up-to-date [like reddit])
Also, a very interesting way to see the more interesting discussions is to arrange them in order from "most replies" to "least replies". Here are some examples:
https://www.physicsforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=replycount
http://www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/top/
Very basic tutorials:
http://donald.phast.umass.edu/~arny/indextut.html
http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/anamunn/Astro500/tutorials_astro101.html
Others:
http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/index.htm - not much astro, but really amazing for fields necessary for astro
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