The following Web Sites have been found by the Webmaster to be accurate and reliable information sources.

1. Urban Legends   www.snopes.com   This site is an excellent source to prove/disprove internet urban legends.  Use this site as a first choice to check out some internet story that you suspect is a bit outrageous.

2. Photos.    http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-hst.html   A portal to NASA Photos.  Free to download...or just to look at. 

3. Photos.  http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/   Web site for all Hubble Photos.

4. Solar System Information.  http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/index.cfm  

5. Chandra.    http://chandra.harvard.edu/field_guide.html  Educational.  Field guide   Good source for more detail on astronomy.

6. International Year of Astronomy 2009.  http://astronomy2009.org/    Also visit   http://astronomy2009.us/  USA Web Site.

7. Astronomy and the Cosmos.    http://cass.ucsd.edu/public/astroed.html   This is an excellent site for more detail on all subjects regarding the universe.  In addition it has a very good discussion on travel through the universe which demonstrates very well the scale of the universe.

8. Witt Theory.  www.undiscovereduniverse.com   An alternative view of popular physics, including a critical review of the current Big Bang theory.

9. Radiometric dating.   http://wrgis.wr.usgs.gov/parks/gtime/ageofearth.html    Excellent USGS United States Geological Survey web site.  In-depth discussion of geology.

10. Galileo.  http://galileo.rice.edu/family.html  The Galileo Project.  Very Informative and accurate autobiography of Galileo.

11. Solar System.  www.solarspace.co.uk

12. Dwarf Planets. http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/dwarfplanets/  

13. Planetary Science Institute.  http://www.psi.edu/epo/    Not a lot of info.....

14. Space Telescope Science Institute.  http://www.stsci.edu/resources/    Data from the Space Telescopes.

15. International Astronomical Union (IAU).  http://www.iau.org/    Astronomy news.  Definition of terms for various objects

16. Map of the Universe.   http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/copyright.html    Excellent site for maps and animations of the Universe.

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