Astronomy in the Los Angeles Area
- The Griffith Observatory
- The Los Angeles Astronomical Society hosts public star parties at the Griffith Observatory about once a month.
- John Drescher Planetarium at Santa Monica College
- Donald E. Bianchi Planetarium at Cal State Northridge
Astronomy Resources on the Web
- This Week’s Sky At A Glance from Sky and Telescope magazine.
- The Universe Today: Space and Astronomy News
- Night Sky Info: A good amateur astronomy resource
- Ask an Astronomer at Cornell University
- Bad Astronomy: A great blog about astronomy topics and recent news by Dr. Phil Plait
- The Constellations and their Stars by Chris Dolan
- Ned Wright’s Cosmology Tutorial
- Welcome to the Planets from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Astronomy Images
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Cassini Images: Images of Saturn, its rings, and its moons from the Cassini spacecraft
- HiRise Images: Images of Mars from the high resolution HiRise experiment aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- HubbleSite: Some of the best images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
- Spitzer Space Telescope: Images from the Spitzer infrared space telescope