The Classification of Stellar Spectra NASA page explaining the colors and classifications (O, B, A, F, G, K, and M) of stars. http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/allen/spectral_classification.html

Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/

Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~mackie/royal_society/alpha/alpha.html

How Stuff Works: Stars Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links. http://www.howstuffworks.com/star.htm

Stars and Galaxies Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes. http://www.telescope.org/btl/sg.html

Star Data Pages Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability). http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/SIT_en.htm

The Formation of Binary Stars Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis. http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html

University of Vaasa - Star photos Nice index of some interesting star photographs. Note: All files are downloaded via an FTP program which appears in a new window. http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/gifstar.html

Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community. http://ad.usno.navy.mil/

The Constellations since 1996 Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology. http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm

Space Telescope Science Institute A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars. http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/quasars.html

Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/constellations.html

Star Maps Three high resolution star maps in .tif format for download. Tycho, Hipparcos and Yale bright star maps available. http://maps.jpl.nasa.gov/stars.html

Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart... http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html

BBC Space - Stars Five concise articles covering the birth and death of stars, star types, and all the things we "know" from just looking at them http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/stars/index.shtml

Cosmobrain Lists the 50 brightest stars visible from Earth, and the 50 closest stars to Earth. Proper names, distances, magnitudes, spectral classification and other data are provided for each star. http://www.cosmobrain.com/

Bright Star Catalogue Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers. http://www.alcyone.de/SIT/bsc

Measuring the Stars In-depth lecture notes that provide information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation. http://www.wncc.net/courses/aveh/lecture/lecmeas.htm

Buy a Star, But It's Not Yours Article discussing (non)validity of star naming companies. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,49345,00.html

SpaceWander Virtual Space Trip! Multimedia experience of flying by spaceship through the solar system. Visit each planet. Real space pictures from NASA. In English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Recommended for kids. http://www.spacewander.com