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Windows to the Universe: Sun

http://www.windows2universe.org/sun/sun.html

Overview including general information, data, pictures, news, historical and mythological background.

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The Virtual Sun

http://www.michielb.nl/sun/kaft.htm

Virtual tour of the sun which uses images, diagrams, and movies to illustrate subjects such as solar wind, solar flares, the solar surface and sunspots.

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The Nine Planets: Sun

http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

General information, some statistical data and links.

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The Michelson Doppler Imager

http://soi.stanford.edu/

Provides results and science of an experiment flown on the SOHO spacecraft to study solar oscillations.

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The Inconstant Sun

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17jan_solcon.htm?list93257

From NASA Science News, experiment on board shuttle mission STS-107 is monitoring the Sun's variable brightness and its link to terrestrial climate change.

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The Analemma Project

http://www.steveirvine.com/analemma.html

An analemma photograph is featured with a detailed description of how it was created.

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Sun Position Calculator

http://www.sunposition.info/sunposition/spc/locations.php

Calculates Sun azimuth and altitude for a given location and date.

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Stanford Solar Center

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

Presents a collection of educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data.

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Solar Images from SDAC

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html

Daily pictures from the SOHO and Yohkoh space platforms, the US National Solar Observatory, and the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory.

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Rotation of the Sun

http://sun22y51.narod.ru/

Electronic book with technical information about the sun and the solar system.

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NASA/Marshall Solar Physics

http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/

The Solar Physics Branch of Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is composed of 15 scientists involved in various studies of the physics of the Sun.

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How Stuff Works: Sun

http://www.howstuffworks.com/sun.htm

In-depth illustrated description of the Sun, its surface, atmosphere, sunspots, solar prominences and solar flares.

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Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)

http://gong.nso.edu/info/

Extensive information about the group and the project, which aims to conduct a detailed study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology.

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Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM)

http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html

Offers documents and overview from a series of projects with focus on magnetosphere studies.

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Find My Shadow

http://www.findmyshadow.com/

Calculates sun position and plots shadows cast by the sun over any chosen location, with drawing tools to construct your own scene and automatically plot the shadow results.

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European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network

http://www.helas-eu.org/

The HELAS Network aims to support and coordinate the exchange of knowledge concerning the global properties of the Sun and stars.

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Current Solar Data

http://www.n3kl.org/sun/

Offers real time images and observations of the Sun from a variety of ground and space sources.

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Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center

http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Based at NASA/GSFC. Includes sections about the Sun, the cosmic rays and the history of its study.

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Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network

http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/

Who they are and what they do. Also includes background information, results, data.

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Analemma

http://www.analemma.com/

Explains the phenomenon - the Sun's apparent path in the sky - including simple animations.

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