Sun (Subscribe)
Categories
- Sunrise and Sunset Times (11)
- Sun-Earth Interaction (37)
- Observatories (20)
- Data Archives (9)
- Aurora (48)
Links
YPOP Tour of the Sun
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Spotlight/Tour/index.html
Educational information about the Sun.
Windows to the Universe: Sun
http://www.windows2universe.org/sun/sun.html
Overview including general information, data, pictures, news, historical and mythological background.
Views of the Solar System: Sun
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm
Pictures, animations, general information and data.
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.
The Nine Planets: Sun
http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html
General information, some statistical data and links.
The Michelson Doppler Imager
Provides results and science of an experiment flown on the SOHO spacecraft to study solar oscillations.
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.
The Analemma Project
http://www.steveirvine.com/analemma.html
An analemma photograph is featured with a detailed description of how it was created.
Sun Position Calculator
http://www.sunposition.info/sunposition/spc/locations.php
Calculates Sun azimuth and altitude for a given location and date.
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.
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.
Rotation of the Sun
Electronic book with technical information about the sun and the solar system.
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.
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.
Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)
Extensive information about the group and the project, which aims to conduct a detailed study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology.
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.
Find My Shadow
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.
European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network
The HELAS Network aims to support and coordinate the exchange of knowledge concerning the global properties of the Sun and stars.
Current Solar Data
Offers real time images and observations of the Sun from a variety of ground and space sources.
Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center
Based at NASA/GSFC. Includes sections about the Sun, the cosmic rays and the history of its study.
Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
Who they are and what they do. Also includes background information, results, data.
Analemma
Explains the phenomenon - the Sun's apparent path in the sky - including simple animations.