Astronomy Departments

A Computational Research Enterprise ( ACORE )

Herbert J. Muthsam and his collaborators: ACORE (A COmputational Research Enterprise) at the University of Vienna, Austria: Scientific Computing, numerical hydrodynamics and MHD, stellar hydrodynamics, convection.

Aarhus Univ. - Physics and Astronomy Department ( IFA )

Aarhus Universitet - Det Naturvidenskabelige Fakultet - Institut for Fysik og Astronomi. [also in Danish]

Academia Sinica's Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( ASIAA )

ASIAA is a research institute founded in 1993 at Taipei, Taiwan, to study the universe and its constituents observationally and theoretically. ASIAA's initial emphasis is on radio astronomy. ASIAA has joined the Berkeley-Illinois-Maryland millimeter Array (BIMA) as a 10% partner sinice 1994. ASIAA is adding two elements to Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Sub-Mn-Array (SMA) (the SMART project) to become a 15% partner of this frontier facility which is to be completed before the year 2000.

Alfvén Laboratory ( Stockholm )

The research and educational activities of the Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), focus on laboratory, space, and fusion plasma physics as well as on applied electrophysics and electromagnetic theory including antenna theory. [also in Swedish]

Algiers Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Geophysics ( CRAAG )

Centre de Recherche en Astronomie, Astrophysique et Géophysique (Alger).

Allegheny Observatory

The official web site of the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory.

American Astronomical Society - Division of Dynamical Astronomy ( DDA )

The object of the American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy is the advancement of all aspects of dynamical astronomy, including celestial mechanics, solar system dynamics, stellar dynamics, the dynamics of the interstellar medium and galactic dynamics, and coordination of such research with other branches of science.

Anglo-Australian Observatory ( AAO )

The Anglo-Australian Observatory operates the Anglo-Australian and UK Schmidt Telescopes at Siding Spring, Australia, and a laboratory on the same campus as the ATNF in the Sydney Suburb of Epping.

Ankara Univ. - Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences

Antares Astronomical Observatory ( OAA-UEFS )

The Observatório Astronômico Antares of the Universidade de Feira de Santana (Brazil) was founded in 1971. [in Portuguese]

Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory ( Firenze )

Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. [also in Italian]

Arizona State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( ASU )

The ASU Physics and Astronomy Department website provides information about our department, links for alumni, and a service for all students, staff, and faculty.

Arkansas Tech University - Astrophysics ( ATU )

Celestial Observatory and Meteorological Station.

Armagh Observatory ( Ireland )

Information on research programme and staff. Access to some Armagh Preprints and historical documentation.

Astro Space Center ( ASC )

The Astro Space Center as a branch of Lebedev Institute of Physics has a number of commitments for space experiments in the areas of upper atmospheric, solar, and astronomical research aboard Radioastron , Kvant and other space projects. Division scientists are involved in major research thrusts that include interferometric observations, studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and studies of astronomical ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays. The division maintains facilities to design, construct, assemble, and calibrate space experiments.

Astronomical Institute Ondrejov, Prague ( Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic )

The Institute's research is carried in five research departments: Solar Physics, Stellar Physics, Interplanetary Matter Department, Near-Earth Space Physics, and Dynamical Astronomy.

Astronomical Institute, University of Berne ( AIUB )

Astronomical Institute

This is the homepage of the Astronomical Institute " Anton Pannekoek" in Amsterdam. It gives information on the Institute, the peoples homepages, several links to astronomical things etc.

Astronomical Institutes of the University of Bonn ( AIUB )

The Astronomical Institutes of the University of Bonn consists of three departments: 1. Radioastronomisches Institut - Radio Astronomy Department (RAIUB) 2. Sternwarte Bonn - Optical Astronomy Department (Sternwarte) 3. Institut fr Astrophysik und extraterrestrische Physik - Department for Astrophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics (IAEF)

Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universitt Bochum ( AI-RUB )

Local information about the institute, the research groups and actual Astro-News. There also is an Astro-Flame-Wall.

Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg ( ARI )

The Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) is a state institute for research in astronomy of the German State of Baden-Württemberg. It is closely linked to the University of Heidelberg.
The main research areas of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut are astrometry and stellar dynamics. The institute provides also astronomical services by issueing basic data for the calendar, ephemerides, and bibliographies.

Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam ( AIP )

The Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) is a research institute with two main directions of research activity:

Cosmic Magnetic Fields, Solar- and Stellar Activity
Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology.

ATNF - Australia Telescope National Facility ( CSIRO )

CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) is an organisation that supports and undertakes research in radio astronomy. It operates the Australia Telescope, the collective name for a set of radio telescopes in New South Wales. These telescopes are used, individually or together, to study objects in the Universe ranging from the remains of dead stars to entire galaxies.

Australian Defence Force Academy - Astronomy and Astrophysic Research Groups ( ADFA )

Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Group of the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, The University of New South Wales. Containing information on research interests and personnel.

Australian National University - Relativity Group

Basel Theoretical Nuclear/Particle Physics and Astrophysics Group ( tNPA Uni Basel )

This is Quasar, the server of the theoretical Nuclear/Particle Physics and Astrophysics groups at the Dept. of Physics of the University of Basel, Switzerland. The server offers information on people, research topics, publications, and teaching as well as personal home pages and preprints. Research topics in astrophysics include nucleosynthesis, type I and II supernovae, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear physics far from stability, neutrino physics; other research interests are atomic physics and chaos. (For a full list, take a look at the server)!

Basel University Astronomical Institute

Beijing astronomical Observatory ( BAO )

The Beijing Astronomical Observatory (BAO) is a comprehensive institute primarily engaged in astrophysics research. The observatory, with its headquarters located in Beijing, has five observing sites: the Xinglong, Miyun, Huairou, Shahe and Tianjin stations. The main research programs include stellar physics, extragalactic studies, solar physics, radio astronomy, atomic time and frequency service, solar activity prediction, artificial satellite observation and history of astronomy, as well as astronomical techniques.

Beijing Astrophysics Center ( BAC )

Jointly sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University.

Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy ( BIRA-IASB )

Created in 1964, the main tasks of the BIRA-IASB are public service and research in the field of the space aeronomy, i.e. tasks that require data knowledge, gathered using ground-based, balloon, rockets and satellites observations within the framework of physics and chemistry of the atmosphere and outer space. That implies the following specific tasks: to collect and place at the disposal of interested parties information on the terrestrial space environment; to develop experimental programs and theories which explain the observations; to implement calculations, measurements and observations allowing control and extension of the existing knowledge. [also in Dutch and French]

Belgrade Astronomical Observatory

Berkeley - Space Sciences Laboratory

HEAD The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. SPRG The Space Physics Research Group. SERENDIP The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations. HOU The Hands-On Universe Program. COBE The Cosmic Background Explorer. EAG The Experimental Astrophysics Group. ISI The Infrared Spatial Interferometer Group. CEA The Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Astrophysics. ORFEUS The Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometers and The Berkeley Spectrometer.

Besancon Observatory ( Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Besançon, LAOB )

Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Besançon - Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (LAOB)

Bologna Astronomical Observatory

Includes history, research activities, photos, preprints and a visit to the Astronomical Museum to view items from the collection.

Bologna University - Astronomy Department ( Italy )

[also in Italian]

Bonn University - Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research ( IAEF )

[in German]

Bonn University Observatory - Sternwarte der Universitaet Bonn

Observations mainly in the optical spectral range are used for galactic and extragalactic research. The Sternwarte operates the Observatorium Hoher List about 100 km from Bonn.

Bonn VLBI group ( GIUB )

The VLBI group at the Geodetic Institute of the University of Bonn (GIUB) has been persuing the use of Very Long Baseline Interferometry for Geodesy and Astrometry since the late seventies and is operating one of the few existing centers for the scheduling, correlation and postprocessing of geodetic VLBI observations.

Bordeaux Observatory ( Laboratoire d'astrodynamique, d'astrophysique et d'aéronomie de Bordeaux )

Observatoire Astronomique de Bordeaux (France). Research activities are in the following fields: astrometry, planet atmospheres, solar physics, and radioastronomy. [in French]

Boston University Astronomy Department ( BU )

Boulder, Colorado - Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences ( APS )

The Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences teaches and researches the areas of Astrophysics and Astronomy, Fluid Dynamics, Planetary Science, Plasma Physics, Solar Physics, and Space Physics.
The department is also affiliated with Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory on campus.

Brazil National Institute of Space Research - Astrophysics Division ( INPE - DAS )

The Divisão de Astrofísica is part of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Brazil). In our department we have researchers working on the following topics: High Energy Astrophysics, Optical Astronomy, Radioastronomy, and Gravitational Waves. [in Portuguese]

Brazil National Laboratory for Astrophysics ( LNA )

The Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica is an Institute of the Brazil National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). At present, LNA supports 3 telescopes: the 1.6-m Ritchey-Chretien and coudé, the 0.6-m Cassegrain and the 0.6-m telescope of the University of São Paulo. [also in Portuguese]

Brazil National Observatory ( ON )

The Observatório Nacional of Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro, was founded in 1827. [in Portuguese]

Bristol Astrophysics Group home page

Links to the Astrophysics and Astrochemistry pursuits of the University of Bristol Physics and Chemistry Departments.

Brown University - Astrophysics and Cosmology

Brown University - Department of Physics - Astrophysics and Cosmology (USA).

Bulgaria Institute of Astronomy ( IABG )

The Institute of Astronomy, Bulgaria (IABG) has two observatories: National Astronomical Observatory "Rozhen" and Belogradtchik observatory.

Bulgarian Academy of Science, Space research institute

Butler University - Physics and Astronomy

Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory ( Armenia )

Cagliari Astronomical Observatory ( International Latitude Station )

The Cagliari Astronomical Observatory was established as International Latitude Astronomical Station of Carloforte in 1899, a small town of the sardinian island of S. Pietro. It has been, for about 80 years, one of the five international stations devoted to study the Earth rotation and polar motion. Observations with the zenital telescope were carried out, except in the period of the second world's war. Starting from 1978, the headquarters were moved to Punta Sa Menta, a site 15 km far from Cagliari which has the same latitude of the Carloforte station. (Satellite Laser Ranging, Astrophysics, Planetary Dynamics, Time Laboratory, Data Processing). [in Italian]

California Univ., Santa Cruz - Astronomy and Astrophysics Department ( UCSC )

CalTech - High Energy Astrophysics Group

CalTech - Infrared Astrophysics Group

Much of the research done by members of the group is performed at the Palomar 5-meter telescope, in the " near infrared" range of the electromagnetic spectrum between wavelengths of 1 and 5 microns.

CalTech - Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy

This division is concerned with the very small--such as the nature of elementary particles and their interactions--and the very large--for example, the size of the universe.

CalTech - Planetary Astronomy

CalTech - Space Radiation Laboratory

Includes: Cosmic Ray Physics and Astrophysics ; High Energy Astrophysics (X-rays and gamma-rays) ; Computational Astrophysics

CalTech - Submillimeter Wave Astrophysics Group

This group operates a single-dish submillimeter telescope on Mauna Kea Hawaii for the astronomy community under contract from the NSF.

CalTech Astronomy

CalTech Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Group ( TAPIR )

The Theoretical AstroPhysics Including Relativity (TAPIR) group is part of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy at CalTech.

Cambridge (UK) Institute of Astronomy ( IoA )

Cambridge University Astronomy

Includes: Institute of Astronomy (IoA) Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Royal Greenwich Observatory Astronomer Place Index (via gateway ), People Index (via gateway ), Postal Index (via gateway ), a Catalog of Galactic SNR's , and more

Cambridge X-Ray Astronomy Group ( IoA, Cambridge )

Home page of the X-Ray Astronomy Group at the Instittue of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. This server provides information on the Group's research activities and links to other useful astronomical WWW sites.

Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics ( CITA )

The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics is a national research centre for studies in theoretical astronomy and related subjects; it is hosted by the University of Toronto. CITA has two primary missions: a Canadian one - to foster interaction in the Canadian theoretical astrophysics community, and also between theorists and observational astronomers; the other is an international one - to be a world-class centre of excellence for theoretical studies in astrophysics.

Cantabria - Astrophysics Department

Astrophysics Department of the Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria at Santander, Spain. This is a center supported by the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) and the University of Cantabria. People here works in Extragalactic Astrophysics.

Canterbury University, Physics and Astronomy departments

Cape Town Univ. - Department of Astronomy ( UCT )

Cardiff Star Formation Group ( UK )

Welcome to the home page of the Cardiff Star Formation Group, part of the Physics and Astronomy Department at UWCC. We conduct numerical simulations of star formation running on the Cray YMP at Oxford and local Sun workstations

Cardiff University Physics and Astronomy ( Cardiff )

Carnegie Institution Observatories ( OCIW )

Carnegie Mellon Univ. - Astrophysics & Cosmology ( Pittsburgh )

Carolune Institute for Quality Astronomy ( CIQuA )

The CIQuA fellowship program is designed to allow those researchers whose partners are also scientists to remain in the same location as their partner while continuing their research. The institute works through the internet. A non-geographic institute prevents dual-career couples to be stretched over the planet. Its membership is composed of young researchers. Faculty members are associated to the research programs.

Carter Observatory ( New Zealand )

Carter Observatory is the National Observatory of New Zealand.

Case Western Reserve University Astronomy Department ( CWRU )

CASS - High Energy Astrophysics

Cassini Lab. ( Nice Obs. )

The Giovanni Domenico Cassini Laboratory, is a Department of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur and also a CNRS research laboratory. It is housed on a hill above the city of Nice. Its scientific activities are: hydrodynamics, non-linear dynamics, radiative transfer and plasma physics. The research carried out has applications in astronomy but also in physics, mathematics and engineering.

Catania Astrophysical Observatory ( INAF-OACt )

Daily solar images (chromosphere and photosphere). [also in Italian]

CEA Saclay - Astrophysics Department ( DAPNIA )

Département d'Astrophysique, de physique des Particules, de physique Nucléaire et de l'Instrumentation Associée, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, (CEA), Saclay, France.
DAPNIA combines the three disciplines: Astrophysics (SAp), Nuclear Physics (SPhN), Particule Physics (SPP).

Celestial Mechanics and Ephemeris Calculation Institute ( IMCCE-BdL, Paris Obs. )

The Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des Ephémérides du Bureau des Longitudes publishes ephemerides and performs research activities related to solar system objects, celestial mechanics and astrometry.

Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics ( CAAO )

The Center's mission is to develop state-of-the-art adaptive optics systems for the many large telescope projects currently under development by Steward Observatory in collaboration with a number of partners worldwide.

Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica ( CARA )

Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy ( CASA )

The Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA), founded in 1985, is affiliated with the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences (APS) department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The APS department offers a graduate program in the two related areas, and students obtain basic theoretical knowledge common to both before specializing. CASA personnel have active research programs. In Astrophysics, the major topics include: Stars (proto-, hot, cool, and the Sun), Interstellar and Intergalactic Matter, Extragalactic Astronomy, High-Energy Astrophysics, Origins, and X-ray/UV/IR Instrumentation.

Center for Space Studies - Universidad de Chile ( CEE )

The Center for Space Studies (CEE) of the Universidad de Chile offers ground support services to space missions since 1959. National leader in the development of applications related to space technology, the CEE offer solutions in territorial management and studies of electromagnetic compatibilities.
The Center for Space Studies offers its support to space missions that require coverage in this region of the world. Other related services are the hosting of automatic control stations and satellite gateways, as well as the implementation of laboratories, sensors and equipment for scientific research. In addition to the Satellite Tracking Station, the CEE has offices in the city of Santiago and facilities at Easter Island, for services related to the space activity.

Centre d'Analyse des Images ( CAI )

The CAI, a laboratory of INSU/CNRS, in Paris, France. It hosts the MAMA (Machine a Mesurer pour l'Astronomie) measuring machine, a photographic plate digitising facility. Among other scientific projects, the CAI contributes to the EROS and DUO searches for microlensing events. (Server in French).

Centre de Recherche en Geodynamique et Astrometrie ( CERGA )

This scientific department of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur is located on the Observatory sites of Nice, Grasse and Calern. The scientific activities cover fields as diverse as fundamental astronomy, celestial mechanics and space geodesy. CERGA is in charge of several observing facilities like the lunar-laser ranging telescope and the two satellite laser stations.

Charles University Prague, Astronomical Institute

The site of the Astronomical Institute of the Charles University in Prague provides information about personnel, research, and lectures.

Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel - Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics

Research Areas:

College of Charleston, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Cologne Univ. - Theoretical Phys. Institute - Gravitation and Relativity Group ( Germany )

The Gravitation and Relativity Group, including Scientific Computing, is part of the Institut für Theoretische Physik of the Universität zu Köln. Our group investigates Einstein's theory and its possible extensions in both the classical and the quantum regime. The methods involved include quantisation of general relativity, an analysis of its gauge structure, and quantum theory in curved backgrounds. Particular applications are cosmology and the physics of black holes. Because of the complicated formalism, computer methods such as numerics, computer algebra, and visualisation are heavily used.

Columbia University - Astronomy and Astrophysics

This is the homepage for the Columbia University Department of Astronomy and the Columbia Astrophysics Lab.

Complutense Univ. - Astronomy and Gedoesy Institute ( IAG/CSIC-UCM )

Instituto de Astronomía y Geodesia / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Universidad Complutense (Madrid). [in Spanish]

Concepcion University, Astronomy Group ( Chile )

The Astronomy Group of the Universidad of Concepcion (Chile) studies Cepheids, Be Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Dwarf Novae, Cluster distance, Globular Clusters.

Copenhagen University Observatory

Cornell University - Department of Astronomy

Cracow Observatory

The Astronomical Observatory is an institute in Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Nowadays the scientific staff of 36 people works on: physics of comets, photometry of variable stars, solar radio emission observations, investigation of extragalactic radio sources, active galactic nuclei, interstellar and intergalactic matter, physics of galaxies, large scale structure of the Universe and theoretical cosmology.

CSIRO - Telecommunications & Industrial Physics ( CSIRO - TIP )

This server is operated by the CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility and CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, located in Sydney, Australia. The Parkes Radio Observatory is also operated by ATNF. The top-level menu contains: ATNF Site Guides and General Information, The ATNF FTP Server - Documentation (See the README file first), The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes Catalogue '90, The ATNF FTP Server - Parkes, MIT, NRAO Survey, The ATNF FTP Server - COMRAD database.

There is also an FTP server , with contents: Various AIPS tasks and support routines for the processing of Australia Telescope data; Observing proposals and documentation related to the use and operation of the Australia Telescope, including vistors guides to all the ATNF sites; The Karma package (library and applications for Signal and Image Processing; A spectral line reduction package which can read a number of formats including those used by the Parkes 64m telescope; Another spectral line reduction package specifically for the reduction of spectral line data from the Parkes 64m telescope; - README

Danish Space Research Institute ( DSRI, Denmark )

Dartmouth College Physics and Astronomy Department

In space physics, active areas of research include theoretical studies of space plasmas, computer simulations of plasmas, studies of auroral particle acceleration and heating, investigations of the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and studies of geomagnetic storms. The observational space physics program at Dartmouth uses ground-based, rocket-launched, and satellite instrumentation to study the ionosphere and magnetosphere. Observational work in astronomy is carried out not only at the MDM Observatory, but at national and international facilities including the Hubble Space Telescope. Ongoing research includes optical, UV and X-ray studies of supernovae and supernova remnants, investigations of the interstellar medium, shock waves, and Wolf-Rayet stars, optical studies of X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variable stars. Additional work focuses on cosmology, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the end states of stellar evolution. The theoretical particle physics and cosmology group at Dartmouth conducts research into general relativity, field theory, particle physics and phase transitions in the early universe, and baryogenesis, as well as investigations of star formation and the origins of large scale structure in the universe.

Denver Univ. Astronomy ( DU )

DU Astronomy research and Observatories, among which: Mt.Evans Meyer-Womble Observatory located at 14,124 feet above sea level, on Mt.Evans in the Front Range of Colorado, used for infrared astronomy research.

Departement d'Astronomie Solaire ( DASOP, Observatoire de Paris )

Department of Solar Astronomy at Observatoire de Paris.

Departement d'Astrophysique Stellaire et GALactique ( DASGAL, Observatoire de Paris )

The stellar and galactic astrophysic departement (DASGAL) is one of the scientific department of the Paris-Meudon-Nançay Observatory (France). It is also the CNRS associated research unit 335.

Department of Astronomy, University of Belgrade ( DAUB )

Department of Astronomy is a part of Faculty of Mathematics at University of Belgrade. Department employs about ten teachers involved in various topics of astrophysical and astronomical research (minor planets, radiative transfer, supernova remnants, stellar structure and evolution). There are two main study groups, Astrophysics and Dynamical Astronomy. [also in Serbian]

Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory [English] ( DRAO )

DRAO is a national facility operated by the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. The synthesis telescope is particularly suited to comprehensive studies of the interstellar medium, extended Galactic nebulae and star-forming regions, and of nearby galaxies. The other instruments are a 26-m paraboloid and a solar flux monitoring system. Observing proposals are welcome from all interested astronomers.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies - School of Cosmic Physics

Dublin Univ. College - Space Science and Astro-Materials Laboratory ( SSAMR )

The SSAMR (The National University of Ireland, Dublin) consists of two research groups: the Space Science Group, involved in the areas of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs), Active Galactic Nucleii (AGNs), and Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies (BCDs), and the Astro-Materials Group, primarily involved in the Formation process of chondrules in Chondritic Meteorites, with some work on GRBs as a possible heating mechanism.

Dunsink Observatory Homepage

The Dunsink Observatory homepage provides useful links to other astronomical and academic institutions, software, search engines and other links of local interest.

Earth Sciences Laboratory ( LST )

Includes studies on planets and satellites.[in French]

East Tennessee State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( ETSU Physics and Astronomy )

East Tennessee State University is part of the SARA telescope consortium, operating the 0.9 meter SARA optical telescope on Kitt Peak.
Research interests at East Tennessee State University include Mira variables, the interstellar medium in galaxies, and galaxy interactions.

Ecole Normale Superieure - Departement de Physique ( ENS )

Physics departement of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS). [in French]

Edinburgh Royal Observatory ( ROE )

This site offers information about the extensive activities of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, a PPARC establishment responsible for building common-user IR and sub-mm instrumentation and managing telescope sites and data archive resources, as well as the UK Schmidt Telescope and the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine. The ROE site also has links to, or acts as the home page for:

Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh;
latest research e-prints;
the Crawford library;
the ROE Visitor Centre;
the UKIRT data archive;
Public Understanding of Science;
ROE Photolabs;
Teacher Research Inititive

and much more information besides.

Ege Univ. - Astronomy and Space Sciences Department ( Izmir, Turkey )

[in Turkish]

Environment's Physics and Chemistry Lab. ( LPCE )

Research on the terrestrial atmosphere and the space environment

Erciyes University - Astronomy and Space Sciences Department

A newly founded department, currently involving three persons, working on stellar evolution, binary stars and radio astronomy. The campus hosts a radio observatory with 2, 2.5, 3 and 5 meter dishes.

ESO Bulletin Board

Midas; Computer; Info; Garching; La Silla; Sest; Pinboard

Estacion Astronomica Rio Grande ( EARG )

ESTEC - European Space Agency ( ESA/ESTEC )

European Space Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands, one of the three centers of the European Space Agency (ESA).

ETH Institute of Astronomy ( ETH Zurich )

The Institute of Astronomy at ETH Zurich includes the three following research groups: Solar Physics; Stellar and Interstellar Physics; Computer Simulations and Data Processing.

European Northern Observatory ( ENO )

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and its Observatories (the Observatorio de Teide, on Tenerife, and the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, on La Palma) make up a Spanish research and observational centre, which, since 1979, has been open to the international scientific community and effectively constitute the European Northern Observatory (ENO). [also in Spanish]

European Southern Observatory - Munich Image Data Analysis System ( ESO-MIDAS )

The European Southern Observatory, established in 1962, operates astronomical observatories at La Silla (600 km north of Santiago de Chile) and at Paranal (130 km south of Antofagasta). ESO's headquarters are in Garching, just north of Munich, Germany. ESO is supported by: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Europe and in Chile, ESO has a combined scientific, technical, adminstrative and visiting staff of around 400.

European Southern Observatory ( ESO )

ESO, the European Southern Observatory, is a multinational organisation of eight European member states. It operates astronomical observatories in Chile and has its headquarters in Munich, Germany.

European Space Agency ( ESA )

Main access points are:

European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC)
- Astrophysics Division
European Space Operations Centre (ESOC)
European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)
European Astronaut Centre (EAC)
Villafranca Satellite Tracking Station (VILSPA)

Exeter Astrophysics

Astrophysics Group in the School of Physics at the University of Exeter. The group is part of the Starlink Project.

Eötvös Loránd Univ. - Department of Astronomy, Budapest ( ELTE Astronomy )

Eötvös Loránd University Department is Hungary's oldest standing astronomical institution and its main center of astronomy education.
Education: Undergraduate astronomy; PhD in astronomy.
Research: Celestial mechanics; Solar and astrophysical MHD; Star formation and galactic structure. [also in Hungarian]

Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas. Departamento de Astronomía ( Universidad de Chile )

Department of Astronomy of the University of Chile. [in Spanish]

Florida Inst. of Technology - Physics and Space Sciences Department ( PSS )

The Astronomy Group at Florida Tech is concerned primarily with observational and theoretical studies of white dwarf stars, both as single stars and as members of binary or multiple systems. The Space Physics Group at Florida Tech studies the interaction of the Sun on the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere

Free State Univ. - Physics Department ( UFS )

The research in the Physics Department of the University of the Free State falls into two main categories: surface science and astrophysics. The Physics department has sophisticated surface analysis apparatus at its disposal and has gained an international reputation as a surface science laboratory. Boyden Observatory, less than 30km outside of Bloemfontein, is currently being upgraded to become a high standard research facility.

French Centre of Space Studies of Radiations ( CESR )

The Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements is a CNRS unit (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), associated with the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse and selected by CNES (Agence francaise de l'espace); it is the laboratory of space astrophysics for the large Southwest area in France. Its missions include: Research in Astrophysics; Instrumental developments ; Teaching and diffusion of science.

Göttingen Univ. Observatory ( Universität Sternwarte Göttingen )

information (research activities, preprints, history of the institute ...) about the observatory of the University at Goettingen. [also in German]

Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique et Instrumentation ( Paris Observatory )

A department of Paris Observatory. Galaxies, stars, physics, and instrumentation.

Galilee Department ( OCA )

[in French]

Galway National University of Ireland - Department of Experimental Physics

Includes; Astrophysics and Applied Imaging; Gamma-ray Astronomy.

Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch ( NRL )

The mission of the Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch of the Space Science Division (SSD), at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is to conduct a broadly-based research program relating to the gamma-ray and cosmic-ray enviroment and the use of gamma ray and energetic particle detection systems in space.

Gemini - U.K. Support Group ( UKGSG )

The U.K. GEMINI Support Group based at Oxford University, England is aimed at supporting the U.K. astronomer community in the use of the GEMINI 8m Telescopes. This site is the main source of information on the telescopes themselves, their instrument compliment, applying for observing time, observing with the GEMINI telecopes and post-observing data reduction/analysis for U.K. researchers.

Geneva Observatory

This server presents the activities of the Observatoire de Geneve (Geneva Observatory) and of the Institut d'Astronomie, Universite de Lausanne (Astronomical Institute, Lausanne).

George Mason University - Astronomy and Space Science group ( GMU )

The Space Sciences group at George Mason University is research and teaching in Astronomy and Space Sciences.

George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Georgia State University - Astronomy ( GSU )

CHARA = Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy
Earth Satellite Ephemeris Service for brighter earth satellites.

Glasgow University - Astronomy Group

Globular Cluster Group, Padova

Web site of the Globular Cluster Group of the Astronomy Department of the University of Padova, including an archive of photometrically homogeneous color-magnitude diagrams for Galactic Globular Clusters (from both groundbased and HST observations).

Goddard Institute for Space Studies ( GISS )

Goteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Granada University - Astrophysics

Graz Univ. - Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Meteorology Institute ( IGAM )

[also in German]

Grenoble Observatory - Astrophysics Laboratory ( LAOG )

Grenoble Planetology Lab. ( LPG )

[in French]

Groningen University - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

There is also a Gopher server. Includes Dutch Astronomy Services

Groupe de Recherche en Astronomie et Astrophysique du Languedoc ( GRAAL )

This is the Astronomy group at University of Montpellier, France. Research activities include cosmology and the study of the late stages of stellar evolution (AGB and post-AGB stars). [in French]

Guadalajara Univ. - Astronomy and Meteorology Institute ( IAM )

Instituto de Astronomia y Meteorologia. [in Spanish]

Guanajuato Univ. - Department of Astronomy

Astrophysics research, teaching, and events at the department of astronomy of the Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico). Publications and preprints. [also in Spanish]

Hamburger Sternwarte ( Hamburg observatory )

Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory ( HartRAO )

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( CFA )

The CfA combines the resources and research facilities of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory under a single director to pursue studies of those basic physical processes that determine the nature and evolution of the universe. The CfA operates the Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona, and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts. There is also a Theory Group ).

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( CfA ): The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a collaboration between the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) . Many CfA staff members are also associated with the Harvard University Department of Astronomy. Includes: AXAF Science Center (ASC) . Anonymous ftp

Heidelberg MPI for Nuclear Physics ( MPIK )

The Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik is located at Heidelberg, Germany. It was founded by Wolfgang Gentner as a research centre for nuclear physics in 1958. The present major research areas include nuclear and particle physics, space science, cosmic ray research and other topics. [also in German]

Heidelberg Univ. - Physics and Astronomy Faculty ( Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie )

Heliophysical Observatory Debrecen, Hungary

The Debrecen Heliophysical Observatory is the solar branch of the Nicholas Konkoly-Thege Astrophysical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Helsinki University - Observatory

Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics ( HIA )

The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics (HIA)is the scientific institute within the National Research Council of Canada which is responsible for operating Canadian observatories. Subdivisions and related facilities of HIA include: the DAO, DRAO, JCMT, CFHT, CADC, Gemini, and Solar Terrestrial Physics.

High Altitude Observatory ( HAO )

Today's Observatory program includes numerical simulation of convection, radiation transport, and large-scale dynamics in both the solar and terrestrial atmospheres, plus observational programs to measure the Sun's output of magnetized plasma and radiation over the 11 year sunspot cycle of the Sun.

High Energy Astrophysics Division ( SAO )

The Division's main focus is on X-ray astronomy via observations of high-energy sources with instruments aboard satellites, rockets, and the Space Shuttle; and development of new instrumentation for future space missions to address the processes involved in generating x-rays, the amount of matter in the universe, and the origin, evolution, and the ultimate fate of the universe. The AXAF Science Center The AXAF HRC project The AXAF Mission Support Team The ROSAT Science Data Center The PROS/XRAY Data Analysis Software The Einstein Data Center The Spectrum-X Gamma Coordination Facility The Solar and Stellar X-ray Group The Astrophysics Data System Project The Einline Database Service The SIMBAD Database Service The Quasar Energy Distribution Team The Supernova Remnant Group The Energetic X-Ray Imaging Survey Telescope (EXIST) The Large Area X-Ray Spectroscopy Mission (LAXSM) Galaxy Clusters at the Center for Astrophysics Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies The Everyday Classroom Tools Project The SAO Summer Intern Program Science Education and Outreach HEAD Lunch Talks Preprints of HEAD papers

High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy ( HEGRA )

The HEGRA experiment (High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy) is mainly devoted to the study of VHE gamma ray emmision (in the range between 5*10¹¹ eV and 10¹⁶ eV) produced either by galactic and extragalactic objects. The experiment also studies the origin and nature of cosmic rays in this energy range. It is located at The Roque de los Muchachos Observatory at LA Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) as a guest of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) .

Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL ( Space Environment Information Service )

Hiraiso Solar Terrestrial Research Center/CRL, Ibaraki, Japan. Serving space environment information inculding forecasts and alerts of solar flares and geomagnetic storms. Relating observed data are also available.

Hong Kong Chinese Univ. ( CUHK )

The theoretical researches made in the Department of physics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong include: Electrodynamics/Plasma Physics; Gravitational Waves; and Relativity and Astrophysics.

Hong Kong Univ. - Theoretical Astrophysics Group ( HKU )

Hubble Space Telescope Astrometry Science Team

See how astrometry, one of the oldest branches of astronomy, uses the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the newest tools of astronomy. Interrogate our home page to find out what we do, who we are, and what we've done. Look over our shoulder as we search for planets around a nearby star. We use the Fine Guidance Sensors aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure star positions, study binary stars and study stellar motions. Primarily, stellar positions yield parallaxes which provide information on distance. The distances to nearby stars calibrate the entire astronomical distance scale. Monitoring star position may reveal previously unseen companions. We search for planets near Proxima Centauri and Barnard's Star. We also work to tie the HIPPARCOS reference frame to an extragalactic (non-rotating) reference frame. We study binary stars unresolvable using ground-based techniques. We inspect stars to determine whether or not they are binary. We use the Planetary Camera to obtain images of stars in globular clusters. The precision with which we can measure positions is so high, that after 3-5 years a second image will show motions of stars in clusters 6 kpc distant.

Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Nuclear Research Institute ( MTA-Atomki Debrecen )

The research activities of the A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Atommagkutató Intézete Debrecen include Plasma physics of astrophysical interest. [also in Hungarian]

IAAT (Astronomy): Astronomy section of the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tuebingen, Germany ( IAAT )

Stellar atmospheres, UV astronomy, (ORFEUS, WSO/UV), X-ray and Gamma-Ray astronomy (ROSAT, HEXE, INTEGRAL, time series), optical astronomy (Planetary Nebulae), astronomical IDL routines.

IAAT (Astronomy): Theoretical Astrophysics and Computational Physics ( TAT, Tuebingen )

Theoretical Astrophysics; Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics; Numerical Relativity.

IAAT (Astronomy): Time Series Analysis

This is the homepage of the time series analysis group at the Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sect. Astronomy, in Tübingen (Germany).
We are dealing with problems of the deterministic (periodic) and non-deterministic behavior of astronomical time series measured by X-ray satellites. The object of our work is to develop tools both for analysing and simulating time series in order to improve the understanding of the time dependent processes taking place in the objects observed by satellites (EXOSAT, Ginga, ROSAT, XTE, ASCA).

Iceland Univ. - Astronomy and Astrophysics ( Háskóli Íslands )

IEM - Molecular & Infrared Astrophysics Department ( DAMIR - IEM )

The Departamento de Astrofísica Molecular e Infrarroja (DAMIR) of the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM-CSIC) borns as result of the merger of two experienced research groups: Astrophysics and Theoretical Chemistry. We develop 3 interdependent research areas: 1) Observational Astrophysics: Molecular spectroscopy of the ISM and multi-range infrared Astronomy of stars and galaxies. 2) Theoretical Astrophysics: Development of radiative transfer codes for molecules in the ISM and the Earth's atmosphere. 3) Theoretical Chemistry: Ab initio calculations of outstanding molecular species in Astrophysics and cross section calculations of ion-atom, ion-molecule collisions. We are strongly implied in the millimetre-submillimetre interferometer ALMA project with the contribution of the Atmospheric Transmision Model (ATM) and the participation in the scientific program. Two astronomical space projects are other of our goals: the new infrared satellite HERSCHEL, and the new generation space telescope Webb. [also in Spanish]

IKI, Moscow - High Energy Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysics department at IKI, Moscow, is carrying out research in various fields of X-ray astronomy: physical processes in the vicinity of compact sources of x-ray emission, x-ray observations using Russian space observatories MIR/KVANT and GRANAT, development of scientific instrumentation for the SPECTRUM-X-GAMMA mission and ALPHA space station, participation in the INTEGRAL project.

Imperial College, University of London - Astrophysics Group

India Physical Research Laboratory ( PRL )

Known as the cradle of Space Sciences in India, the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) was founded in 1947 by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. As a unit of the Department of Space, Government of India, PRL carries out fundamental research in select areas of Physics, Space & Atmospheric Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics and Planetary & Geosciences.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore ( IIA )

The Indian Institue of Astrophysics traces its origin to the Madras Observatory, started in 1786, and moved to Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu in 1899. Later renamed as the Kodaikanal Observatory, it has been functioning as a full-fledged solar and stellar observatory. In its present form, the indian institute of astrophysics was set up in 1971 as an autonomous research institution to conduct research in astronomy, astrophysics and allied areas of physics. The institute is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The main campus is located in Koramangala, south-eastern part of the city of Bangalore and its field stations are at Kavalur, Kodaikanal, Gauribidanur, Hanle and Hosakote.

Indiana University - Astronomy Department

News, Academics, Folks, Facilities, Annual Reports, Miscellaneous, Animations, Images.

Innsbruck University - Institute for Astronomy

This server offers information on:

Staff and scientific fields of interest
Galactic PNe Data Base
Link to general Austrian University Library Index

Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP )

Institute for Astrophysics Laboratory of CNRS (National Science Research Center in France), Paris France.

Institut d'Astrophysique et de Geophysique de Liege ( IAGL )

[in French]

Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique ( IRAM )

IRAM is an international institute for research in millimeter astronomy, cofunded by the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), the MPG (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Germany), and since September 1990 the IGN (Instituto Geografico Nacional, Spain).
The three IRAM sites are: Grenoble, France: the IRAM headquarters, Laboratories (the SIS junction lab the backend group, the receiver group); Plateau de Bure, France: the interferometer of four 15-m antennas; Granada, Spain: the Granada laboratories, the 30-m telescope located on Pico Veleta.

Institut für Theoretische Physik/Astrophysik der Universität Frankfurt

The Institute for Theoretical Physics/Astrophysics of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt.

Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers/CNRS ( INSU )

INSU is the French national agency for Sciences of the Universe. Endowed with its own budget, voted by the CNRS Board of Directors, INSU is responsible for the major facilities and programs in this field of research, and for the Universe Sciences Observatories in France. The server includes the list of all French astronomy departments.

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Astronomy Group ( IASBS, Iran )

Theoretical and Observational Studies; Stellar Oscillations - Solar Physics - Galactic Dynamics; Galactic and Extra-galactic Astronomy.

Institute for Space and Atmospheric Studies ( ISAS )

Institute for Space Astrophysics (France) ( IAS )

The Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS) in Orsay, France, is a laboratory of French CNRS and University of Paris-Orsay. It hosts several scientific teams (Solar ans Stellar Physics, Physics of galaxies, Solar System Physics) and services (MEDOC data center for SOHO).

Institute of Astronomy K.U.Leuven (Belgium)

The research performed at the Institute of Astronomy at the K.U.Leuven is situated in the domain of stellar astrophysics, with special emphasis on asteroseismology and late stages of stellar evolution. The instrumentation group is involved in instruments for several space missions (ISO-SWS, Herschel-PACS, MONS/Roemer, COROT, ...) and the institute operates the Mercator Telescope, at the Roque de los Muchachos observatory (La Palma, Spain).

Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( INASAN )

Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan) - Astronomy Group ( ISAS-Japan )

ISAS Astronomy Projects/Missions: Ginga, ASCA, ASTRO-E,IRTS, IRIS, BICE, ISO, YOHKOH, VSOP(Space VLBI).

Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics ( ITA )

Information about scientific activities and staff members.

Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia ( IAR )

Información sobre las características del Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, sus facilidades instrumentales, tareas de investigación y desarrollo en curso, personal científico y técnico y actividades de extensión.

Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia ( IAA-CSIC )

[in Spanish]

Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Planetary Nebula Research Group ( IAC PN Group )

Members of the group; Research projects; Publications; Meetings

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias ( IAC )

This is the general web site of Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.

Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio ( IAFE )

IAFE is an Institute devoted to the research in the areas of Astronomy, Solar Physics, Astrophysical Plasmas, Atomic Collisions and Relativistic Quantum Field Theories and Gravitation. Besides the Institute takes part in international interinstitutional instrumental projects. The objective of the Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics in Buenos-Aires, Argentina, is to constitute a multidisciplinary group of astronomers, physicists and engineers, whose work be centered on astrophysical problems not covered by other national institutions. Besides, through the requirements imposed by the non classical astronomical experiments, to carry on technological developements, mainly in the area of electronics, transferable to other sectors of the scientific-technological system of the country.
The Investigation Projects are: Astronomy, Solar Physics, Astrophysical Plasmas, Relativistic Quantum Field Theories and Gravitation, and Atomic Collisions.

Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica ( INAOE, Mexico )

The INAOE is a research and teaching institution that has developed from the old Observatorio de Tonantzintla. It is a place of great astronomical tradition, where the discoveries by Guillermo Haro and coworkers took place.

Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica. Astrophysics Department ( INAOE, Mexico )

Information on the Large Millimeter Telescope an about the Cananea observatory

Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics ( IUCAA )

This Centre is an institution set up by the University Grants Commission to promote nucleation and growth of active groups in Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Indian Universities.

International School for Advanced Studies. Astrophysics Sector ( SISSA. Trieste, Italy )

International Space Science Institute ( ISSI )

ISSI is an Institute in Switzerland at which scientists from different countries can work together. Its main task is to contribute to the achievement of a deeper understanding of the results from space-research missions, adding value to those results through multi-disciplinary research in an atmosphere of international cooperation.

Iowa State University - Department of Physics & Astronomy ( ISU )

The Astronomy Group of the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa State University is announcing it's WWW Home Page. It contains information about the Astronomy Program at Iowa State and links to the ISU library, Gopher and other WWW servers in the ISU campus.

IRIS ( CyTeg )

IRIS is a program complex for processing and analysis of large arrays of research data (in particular, images). It is a researcher's toolbox to decide a lot of concrete problems. IRIS is oriented towards the researchers: scientists, engineers, graduate students, students, etc.
Main features of IRIS are simplicity of use, flexibility, possibility of integration with other applications (advanced OLE and DLL-interface).
Native formats processed by IRIS, are FITS, SBIG, BMP. There is the possibility to include support of additional data formats without recompiling IRIS.

Istanbul University, Department of Astronomy and Space Science ( Turkey )

Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica ( IASF/CNR Sect. Palermo )

Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario ( CNR-IFSI, Roma )

Space Plasma Physics, Space Planetology, Infrared Astronomy, Experimental Gravitation, Cosmic Rays.

Istituto di Tecnologie e Studio delle Radiazioni Extraterrestri ( TeSRE-CNR, Italy )

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Astrofisica ( INFN, Napoli )

Italian Institute of Radioastronomy ( IRA )

The Istituto di Radioastronomia (IRA) is one of the institutes operated by the Italian National Research Council (CNR). It has a staff of about 100, astronomers, electronic engineers-physicists, software specialists, technical and administrative support. In addition, people from the University Astronomy and Physics Departments are affiliated with the Institute. The Institute headquarters are in Bologna. Other sections of the institute are located in Firenze, Matera, Medicina Noto and Cagliari.
IRA operates the "Northern Cross Radiotelescope" built in 1960 and located in Medicina (near Bologna). It also operates the two 32-m radio telescopes at Medicina and Noto (Sicily) which are part of the European VLBI Network (EVN). A new 64-m radio telescope, the SRT, is under construction in Sardinia (near Cagliari).

Italian Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics ( IASF )

Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) devoted to research in the fields of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics. The main science and technical activities at IASF cover microwave, infrared, optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray windows of the electromagnetic spectrum. Scientific activity at IASF concerns the various fields of astrophysics, such as: high energy galactic and extragalactic astrophysics, cosmic ray physics and solar astrophysics, cosmic background studies and cosmology, planetology. IASF Headquarters are in Rome, while the three other sections are in Milan, Bologna, and Palermo.

Japan N. A. O. - Solar Physics Division ( NAOJ )

The Solar Physics Division is made of two sections (Solar Activity and Solar Atmosphere) and one guest scientists section (Experimental Astrophysics). Research targets are solar and astrophysical plasmas, using satellites, ground-based telescopes, and MHD theory and computer simulations. The main instruments now used by the scientists in the Division are the Yohkoh satellite and the telescopes at Mitaka and Norikura. [also in Japanese]

Japan National Astronomical Observatory ( NAOJ )

National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. [also in Japanese]

Jena University - Physikalisch-Astronomische Fakultät

Jodrell Bank Observatory ( University of Manchester )

Jodrell Bank Observatory is part of the University of Manchester's Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Laboratories are home to the Lovell Telescope and the MERLIN & VLBI National Facility which is operated by the University on behalf of PPARC.

Johns Hopkins University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( JHU )

About the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy: Current research activities can be divided roughly into five areas: solid-state physics, high-energy physics, astrophysics, plasma spectroscopy, and theoretical physics. Work in the Center for Astrophysical Sciences (CAS) at JHU is now centered in three areas: developing instrumentation for astronomical observations, particularly from space; optical observational astronomy from the ground and space; and theory.Two large space astronomy projects are currently active in CAS: the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope, a far-UV spectrophotometer which made its first flight aboard the space shuttle in December, 1990, and its second flight on March 2, 1995; and the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a free-flying satellite whose launch is expected in 2000.

Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica ( JACARA )

This page is a resource for Antarctic astronomy, providing information of interest to anyone considering the Antarctic plateau as the site for a future major international observatory. It contains papers, images, details of meetings and lists of people involved with Antarctic astrononomy.

Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe / European VLBI Network ( JIVE / EVN )

The European VLBI Network (EVN) was formed in 1980 by a consortium of five of the major radio astronomy institutes in Europe (the European Consortium for VLBI). Since 1980, the EVN and the Consortium has grown to include 9 institutes with 12 telescopes in 8 western European countries as well as associated institutes with telescopes in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and China. Proposals for additional telescopes in Spain and Italy are under consideration, and furthermore, the EVN can be linked to the 7-element Jodrell Bank MERLIN interferometer in the UK and to the US Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to create a " global network" . In 1993 the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) was created, with the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy (Dwingeloo) acting as the host institute. It will provide both scientific user support and a correlator facility. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) achieves ultra-high angular resolution and is a multi-disciplinary technique e.g. imaging of extragalactic radio sources, geodesy and astrometry.

Joint Scientific and Educational Center ( JSEC )

Goals of the Center: Joint Astrophysical Research by universities and Academy of Sciences at BTA (6m telescope) and RATAN-600- the largest Russian astrophysical instruments. / Promotion of high quality education in Astrophysics and Radioastronomy / Development of database for astronomy research and improvement of educational standards in universities specializing in astronomy. / Application of new methods and technologies to the largest telescopes of Academy of Sciences and development of instrumental base for modern astrophysical research and high quality education.

Kansas University - Department of Physics and Astronomy

A combined Department of Physics and Astronomy, with research groups in Cosmology, Galactic Astronomy, and Space Plasma Physics. We are in the Kansas Alliance for Cosmology and Interdisciplinary Astrophysics with Kansas State University, who are starting a program in Particle Astrophysics.

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics ( KITP )

Keele University. Department of Physics ( UK )

The Astrophysics group is part of the UK-wide Starlink Project. For further information on Keele University look in the Campus Wide Information Service

Kent Univ. - Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences ( CAPS )

Kharkov National University - Astronomical Observatory ( KhAO )

Kharkov Astronomical Observatory (Ukraine). Astrophysical research of Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids, comets, stars, extragalactic objects. Astrometry. Time service. Education. Recent publications. Scientific seminar of KhAO.

Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik ( KIS )

The Kiepenheuer-Institut is a research institution of the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, dedicated to the study of the Sun. It is located in Freiburg, Germany, and operates solar observing facilities at the Observatorio del Teide, Tenerife, Spain.

Kiev Shevchenko University - Astronomy and Space physics department ( Kiev, Ukraine )

Research interests:

Space Physics Plasma
Optical spectrometry and photometry
Design of on-board TV and Spectrophotometry devices
Nightglow emission
Solar corona
Comet observations.

Host of Young Scientists Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics (YSC).

Klet Observatory ( Czech Republic )

Information about Klet Observatory research programme: discovery of minor planets, publications, images of minor planets and comets.

Konkoly Observatory

The Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has evolved from the private observatory of Miklos Konkoly-Thege. Konkoly founded his observatory in 1871 in Ogyalla. Twenty-nine years later he donated the telescopes and instruments to the Hungarian state. The construction of Piszkesteto Mountain Station started in 1958. Three telescopes currently operate there: a 60/90 cm Schmidt (since 1962), a 50 cm Cassegrain (since 1966) and an 1 m RCC (since 1974).

Korea Astronomy Observatory

Kyoto Univ. - Department of Physics - Theoretical Astrophysics Group

Research on theoretical physics in the Universe from single star phenomena to whole universe, from quantum cosmology to present time astrophysical phenomena. [also in Japanese]

Kyoto University - Department of Astronomy ( Kyoto )

Kyoto University - Department of Physics

Kyoto University - Department of Physics: Cosmic Ray Group

Köln Univ. - Physics Institute

The Physikalisches Institut of the Universität zu Köln holds 5 scientific workgroups: Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, The KOSMA Observatory, Theoretical and Numerical Astrophysics, and Laboratory Spectroscopy.

La Sapienza University, Department of Physics, Astronomy Group ( Rome, Italy )

Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matiere en Astrophysique ( LERMA, Observatoire de Paris )

The LERMA is a new (Jan 2002) departement of Paris Observatory regrouping the old DEMIRM (Radioastronomie Millimetrique) and the DAMAP (Physics of Atoms and Molecules).

Laboratoire Primaire du Temps et des Frequences ( LPTF )

The Laboratoire Primaire du Temps et des Fréquences (LPTF) is responsible for the French time and frequency references. It is also a laboratory of the Observatoire de Paris through the Departement d'Astronomie Fondamentale and unit 1125 of CNRS (Space Time References Systems).

Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso ( INFN, Italy )

Underground laboratory for Particle Physics and Astrophysics. The server includes information about the experiments:

Laboratorio de Astrofísica Espacial y Física Fundamental ( LAEFF, Spain )

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics ( LASP )

The Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics is an institute of the Graduate School of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Members of LASP conduct basic experimental and theoretical research into fundamental questions in the areas of planetary science, atmospheric composition and processes, and solar physics. Members of LASP also explore the potential uses and development of space operations and information systems as well as develop scientific instrumentation.

Laboratory Universe & Theories ( LUTH, Paris Observatory )

A department of Paris Observatory.

Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( LSW )

Latvia University - Astronomy Institute

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Physics Directorate ( LLNL )

Leeds University - Astrophysics Group ( School of Physics and Astronomy )

Within the Department of Physics at Leeds University are three research groups that work in Astronomy related areas. The Optical Astronomy group is mainly interested in globular clusters and CCD photometry. The Haverah Park group studies high energy cosmic rays by various techniques. The Whipple group is attempting to detect gamma rays with energies > 1TeV using air-Cherenkov detectors.

Leiden Observatory

Lick Observatory - University of California ( UCOLICK )

Descriptions and users' manuals for Lick Observatory telescopes and facility instruments on Mount Hamilton; local weather; astronomical calendars; telescope time applications; staff and contacts at Lick Observatory.

Pages on Lick Observatory of general interest to the public; Lick Observatory history; visitor information; Mount Hamilton web camera.

Lisbon University - Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics ( CAAUL )

[in Portuguese]

Liverpool John Moores University, Astrophysics Research Institute ( ARI, Liverpool JMU )

Details of the research and teaching interests of the group, as well as information on the Liverpool Telescope project - a fully-robotic 2m telescope to be situated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma.
As well as the Astrophysics degree-course with Liverpool University, we also have an innovative distance learning course.

Ljubljana University, Astronomical Observatory ( Slovenia )

The Ljubljana Astronomical Observatory is part of the Department of Physics and is located on the hill Golovec close to Ljubljana (Slovenia). Observations that require dark skies are obtained at Crni vrh observing station where two small automated telescopes equipped with state of the art systems for CCD photometry are located.
Astronomers run university courses of astronomy for astronomers as well as physicists and primary and secondary school teachers. The Observatory has a public astronomical library. Research is in large part done in collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory of Padua. Reseach interests include general relativity, active galactic nuclei, close stellar binary systems, pulsars, comets and telescope automation.

Los Alamos Astrophysics ( LAA )

Los Alamos Astrophysics (LAA) is an informal organization at Los Alamos National Laboratory that maintains a regular colloquium series, serves as a clearing-house for information on astrophysical research at the lab, and prepares the annual astrophysics report.

Los Alamos National Laboratory - Theoretical Astrophysics ( T-6 )

Louisiana State Univ. - Physics & Astronomy Department

Lowell Observatory

Ludwig Maximilians Universität München - Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik

[in German]

Lunar and Planetary Laboratory - Department of Planetary sciences ( LPL )

Lund Observatory

Lyon Center of Astronomical Research ( CRAL )

The Center of Astronomical Research of Lyon (CRAL) is a research institute established by CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and University Claude Bernard-Lyon I.

Madrid Astrobiology Centre ( CAB-CSIC-INTA )

Centro de Astrobiología / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (CSIC-INTA). [in Spanish]

Malaya Univ. - Theoretical Physics Lab.

The Makmal Fizik Teori is one of the 7 laboratories of the Jabatan Fizik, Universiti Malaya. Research topics in Astrophysics are: Advanced stages of the evolution of massive stars and The cosmological singularity of Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universes.

Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. ( MSSS )

Manchester Univ. - School of Physics and Astronomy

School. of Physics & Astronomy including the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Manitoba Univ. - Physics & Astronomy Department

Physics and Astronomy is part of the Faculty of Science and is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Marseille Laboratory of Astrophysics ( LAM )

The Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille results from the merging of the Astronomical Observatory in Marseille, France, and of the Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale (LAS). This is part of the OSU Marseille-Provence. [also in French]

Marseille-Provence Astronomical Observatory ( OAMP )

Mauritius Univ. - Science Faculty ( UoM )

Includes research in Astrophysics and a link to the Mauritius Radio Telescope.

Mauritius Univ. - Science Faculty ( UoM )

Max Planck Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik

Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie ( MPAe )

The Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie (MPAe) is one of the over sixty institutes for basic research run by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The fields of research comprise the near earth space (atmosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere) and extend into the interplanetary space as far as the sun and to other planets, comets and asteroids.

Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie ( MPIA, Heidelberg )

The MPIA operates the Calar Alto Observatory as well as conducting research in different areas of astronomy and astrophysics including star formation, extragalactic objects, astrophysical theory, and instrumentation development. [also in German]

Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik ( MPA, Garching )

Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik ( MPE, Garching )

Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) ( MPG, Golm )

The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) was established to pursue research in gravitational physics, especially general relativity and quantum gravity. Its research is organized into four divisions, each of which addresses a particular subject: geometric analysis and gravitation, astrophysical relativity, quantum gravity and unified theories and laser interferometry and gravitational wave astronomy (Teilinstitut Hannover). [also in German]

Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie ( MPIfR, Bonn )

Colloquium schedule (KOLLOQUIUMSPLANUNG -- Diese Planungsdatei ist LAN-öffentlich und über Internet zugänglich via 'anonymes ftp')

McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences ( MCSS )

The McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences exists to encourage scientists to work together on research problems that span or transcend traditional departmental lines. This is done through formal programs such as regular colloquia, and informally through the common bond of fellowship in the Center. Space science, broadly defined as the study of the universe and our relationship to it, is simply too vast an area to be the province of a single discipline. Understanding the formation of the solar system is equally the task of the chemist who measures isotope effects in meteorites, the astronomer who observes planetary atmospheres or interstellar dust, and the theoretical physicist who studies gravitational collapse. Faculty and students of the Center thus belong to one of the basic, traditional science departments, yet overlap strongly in their research work.

McGill University - Earth and Planetary Science

The Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences of McGill University have available an interactive Atlas of impact craters and coronae structures of Venus. The Face of Venus, enables browsers to interactively access a geographical database of these features. Craters or coronae can be selected by size, type, and name status to create user-generated maps of the selected features, as well as a text listing. A dynamic ISMAP is created with clickable areas where users can obtain more information about any feature viewed on the map, or directly from the text list. Users may also elect to examine the distribution of their selected features by using hierarchical cluster analysis to generate a dendrogram of any groupings.

McMaster University - Astronomy and Astrophysics

Contains information about their faculty, research, facilities and graduate programme.

Michigan State University - Physics & Astronomy ( MSU )

Middle East Technical University - Astrophysics ( METU )

Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Astronomy at the Instutute of Applied Physics R.A.S. ( MM and SubMM Astronomy at IAP RAS )

Millimeter and submillimeter wave astronomy research at the Institute of Applied Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences) includes developments of low-noise receivers and other radio astronomical equipment, studies of dense interstellar molecular clouds, numerical modelling. Observations are performed at the 22-m radio telescope in Crimea and at other instruments worldwide.

Minas Gerais Federal Univ. - Astrophysics group ( DF-UFMG )

[in Portuguese]

Mississippi State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy

The Physics and Astronomy Department home page contains information about faculty, students, and departmental facilities. Research information and information about the University's Howell Observatory is also available.

Missouri-Columbia University - Department of Physics and Astronomy

MIT Center for Space Research ( CSR )

The Center supports a broad range of space-related research by scientists in many departments of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Areas of current activity range from theoretical cosmology and astrophysics to laboratory and flight experiments and ground-based observations. Laboratory facilities include X-ray generators, particle accelerators, vacuum chambers, and conventional electronic test and machine shop equipment. Extensive computational facilities are available for the analysis and reduction of data.

Monash University - Applied Mathematics Department

Montana State University ( Bozeman, USA )

Over 18 full-time faculty on staff with strong research areas in astrophysics, condensed matter physics, optical science and laser technology, relativity and cosmology, solar physics and physics/astronomy education.

Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy ( MIRA )

The Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy is a non-profit astronomical observatory, founded in 1972 and dedicated to research and education in astronomy. Includes an Atlas of Low-Resolution Near-Infrared Spectra of Normal Stars.

Mount Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories - Australian National University ( MSSSO )

Includes the Australian AstroWeb site, and an Anonymous ftp server.

MSU Solar Physics Group ( Montana )

Muenster Institute of Planetology

The Institut für Planetologie performs teaching and research in Planetary Sciences with a particularly interdisciplinary approach including geochemical, geological, geophysical, and mineralogical methods.

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory ( MRAO )

The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory is part of the Cavendish Laboratory, the Physics Department of the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include: the cosmic microwave background (Sunyaev-Zeldovich and primordial fluctuations), radio galaxies (hot-spots, spectral ageing), ultra-luminous infra-red galaxies, star formation in galaxies, low-frequency radio surveys, mm and sub-mm instrumentation, mm and sub-mm astronomy (star formation and outflows, interferometry, the Galactic Centre), the interplanetary medium, supernova remnants, optical aperture synthesis, and maximum entropy techniques.

Nagoya Univ. - Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory ( STEL )

The STEL of Nagoya University is a collaborative institute for conducting and promoting comprehensive research on the relationship between solar activity and charges in the terrestrial environment. [also in Japanese]

Nagoya University ( Department of Physics and Astrophysics )

Nançay Radio Observatory ( USN )

The Nançay Radio Observatory is a scientific department (the Unité Scientifique de Nançay) of the Observatoire de Paris, and it is also associated to the CNRS (the French National Scientific Research Centre). It maintains 3 radio telescopes:

the Decimetric Radiotelescope, which is the world's 2nd largest fixed collector, operating from 9 to 21 cm;
the Radioheliograph, operating from 60 cm to 2 m;
the Decametric Array, operating from 3 to 30 m.

[also in French]

Nanjing Astronomical Instruments Research Centre ( NAIRC )

Nanjing Astronomical Intruments Research Centre (NAIRC), China, was founded by Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1958 for developing mainly the large and medium astronomical instruments and also other instruments by integrated optical, mechanical, electronical and computer techniques. There are about 520 staff members working in NAIRC, including one China Academician, 17 senior researchers and professors, 60 senior engineers and 150 technicians. They compose a technical team to study and design the overall astronomical instruments including optical system, precise mechanics, automatic and computer controls. NAIRC is equipped with precise mechanical machines,electronic testing instruments, large and medium optical fabricating machines, of which some are very rare in China. NAIRC is specialized in optical process technology for aspheric surface, birefringent crystal, etc. Its off axis aspheric technique is in the domestic lead position. The technology of antenna panel for millimetre wavelength radio telescope is also being advanced in China. NAIRC adopts astronomical technique and methods research as its subject direction. Its main developing areas are the instruments for stellar,solar and satellite observations,astrometric and radio astronomical instruments and other instruments by comprehensive techniques.The great achievements have been obtained in basic research field such as the active optics and astronomical optical interferometry, which have been placed as the major research projects of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Especially,after finishing the pre-research in NAIRC, the Large Sky Area Multi-objects Fibre Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) has been rated as one of the major national scientific projects.
NAIRC is an authorized unit for training M.Sc and Ph.D students with the subject of "Astronomical Instruments and Methods". NAIRC is having wide international contacts with more than 20 countries. The multilevel academic exchange and technical-trade collaboration have been set up with overseas scientists, institutes and specialized corporations.

Nantes Univ. - Planetology and Geodynamics Laboratory ( LPGN )

NASA Ames Space Science Division

Research and Development dedicated to the understanding of the origin and evolution of stars, planets and life: Astrophysics Exobiology Planetary Systems Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards Galileo Probe Home Page Planetary Rings Center for Mars Exploration Astrochemistry Laboratory Mars Atmosphere General Circulation Modeling Pioneer Plasma Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment DATA Center for Data Analysis Technology & Applications

NASA/Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics

The Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Group, at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, consists of approximately 15 theoretical astrophysicists who perform research at the confluence of astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics. The group is partially funded by a NASA Astrophysics Theory grant.

National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR )

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics ( NCRA )

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics is the leading centre in India for reseach in radio astronomy. It operates the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope(GMRT), one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world for radio astronomy at metre wavelengths.

National Observatory of Athens Astronomical Institute ( NOA )

National Optical Astronomy Observatories ( NOAO )

NOAO-Gopher(Gemini,Weather,Veronica),
catalogs, NSO, CTIO, KPNO

National Radio Astronomy Observatory ( NRAO )

The NRAO is a facility operated by Associated Universities, Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
NRAO/VLA Information System -- Maintenance Report summaries (Open and to be Repaired); Official VLA, VLBA and VLBI NUG Schedules; General Info for Visitors to NRAO (New Mexico); VLA Specific Information; VLBA Specific Information; Weather Information
NRAO-Charlottesville ( Headquarters ; there is also an anonFTP server .
NRAO-Socorro
NRAO-Tucson
NRAO-VLA (Very Large Array)
NRAO-VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array)
NRAO-Green Bank (140-foot, GBT, OVLBI)

Naval Research Laboratory Space Science Division ( NRL SSD )

Division scientists are involved in major research thrusts that include ultraviolet remote sensing of the upper atmosphere, studies of the solar atmosphere by using spectrographic techniques, and studies of atronomical radiation ranging from the ultraviolet through cosmic rays. This includes the mission operations and data analysis facilities for NRL's OSSE experiment on NASA's Compton Observatory. Contains links to Backgrounds Data Center, X-ray Astronomy Branch, Gamma and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics Branch, Solar Physics Branch, Coronal Physics Section, Far-Ultraviolet Cameras Experiment, and more.

New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology - Physics Department

New Mexico State University - Department of Astronomy ( NMSU )

Contains information on faculty, staff, and students and their research and educational activities, as well as descriptions of department astronomical facilities.

New Mexico Tech - Physics Department - Astrophysics Program

Main research domains:

Dynamics and Kinematics of Nearby Galaxies
Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO)
Plasma Astrophysics
Pulsars
Plasma Physics in Clusters of Galaxies
Radio Galaxies and Their Cluster Environment
Radio Studies of Normal, Exploding, and Compact Stellar Systems.

New Mexico Univ. - Institute For Astrophysics ( IFA )

The IFA resides within the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UNM. Links and services which are related to astrophysics and astronomy at UNM.

New Radio Telescope Technologies Laboratory ( NRTT Lab )

NRRT Lab. of JSEC "Astronomy" in St.Petersburg, Russia. Current research: Antenna testing and research, development of new antenna technologies for radio telescopes including multielement feed arrays, MMIC focal receiver arrays, active phased arrays for radio telescopes. Development, investigation and introduction of new observation modes at RATAN-600 radio telescope.

Nice University, Astrophysics Department

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Nicolaus Copernicus University - Institute of Astronomy

Nijmegen Catholic University - Astrophysics Department ( KUN )

Research of the Department of Astrophysics Nijmegen is concentrating on the subject of high-energy astrophysics. This research is observational as well as theoretical and is in close cooperation with the departments of Experimental (HEFIN) and Theoretical high energy physics (THEF) at the University of Nijmegen and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (NIKHEF). The Department of Astrophysics is part of NOVA: the Dutch Research School for Astronomy, which is a collaboration between the astrophysics institutes of the universities of Amsterdam (UvA), Leiden (LU), Utrecht (UU), Groningen (LU) and Nijmegen (KUN)." For information about research in Nijmegen, please contact the head of the department, Prof. dr. Jan Kuijpers. [also in Dutch].

North Carolina State University - Astrophysics ( NCSU )

A description of activities and resources within the Astrophysics Research group in the Department of Physics at North Carolina State University. Contents include preprints, description of ongoing research, astrophysics MPEGs, and graduate research opportunities

Northern Arizona University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( NAU )

Northwestern University - Astrophysics ( NWU )

Observational and theoretical astrophysics at Northwestern University uses all of the electromagnetic spectrum: radio (at both centimeter and millimeter wavelengths), near and far infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray. This is carried out using state-of-the-art instrumentation at major international facilities. Theoretical research emphasizes compact objects (black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars), stellar astrophysics, and cosmology.

Notre Dame Astrophysics Group

NRL Solar Physics Branch ( NRL )

There are three active experimental programs in the Solar Physics Branch: The Large Angle Coronagraph-Spectrograph (LASCO) experiment is one experimental package aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint ESA/NASA mission, which was launched on December 2, 1995. LASCO is now producing coronal images from all three of its coronagraphs. The Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SUSIM) experiment begun on October 11, 1991 aboard the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) continues to measure the solar UV spectral irradiance. The High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) experiment has collected spectroscopic observations of the Sun while flying on suborbital rockets since its first flight in 1975.

Observatoire de Haute-Provence ( OHP )

The Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP) is an optical observatory in southeast France offering small and medium-sized observing facilities to astronomers in France, Europe and abroad. Includes information about instruments and user manuals.

Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur ( OCA )

The Cote d'Azur Observatory (OCA : Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur) was founded in 1988 by the merging of two institutes: Nice Observatory and the Center for Study and Research in Geodynamics and Astronomy (CERGA : Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches en Geodynamique et en Astronomie).
Main research topics: CERGA: Astrometry, Geodesy, Laser telemetry, celestial mechanics.
Departement Fresnel : High angular resolution and Interferometry. Stellar physics. Galactic and extragalactic physics. Research and development.
Departement Cassini: Astronomy and Astrophysics; Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics; Plasma Physics; Atomic Physics; Experimental Physiscs; Solar Physics.

Observatoire du Mont Megantic ( OMM )

The Centre de recherche Observatoire du mont Mégantic (OMM) is an inter-university collaborative organisation which brings together researchers from Université de Montréal, Université Laval, with axis centred on the télescope du mont Mégantic (TMM).
The Centre unites most of the professional researchers working in astronomy and astrophysics in Québec.

Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees ( OMP )

The Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) is an Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers placed under the administrative supervison of both the Institute des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU) of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Ministry of Research, Technology and Education. It has laboratories located on the Rangueuil campus of Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (UPS), in Bagnères, Lannemezan and on the summit of Pic du Midi de Bigorre.

Observatorio Astronomico de Cordoba ( OAC )

The Observatorio Astronomico de Cordoba (OAC) is an institute of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. This page includes information about history, research groups, teaching activities and the 1.5m telescope located at Bosque Alegre, in the mountains of the Sierras de Cordoba.

Observatorio Astronomico de La Plata ( OALP )

Faculty of Astronomical and Geophysical Sciences. The Observatory was established in November 1883. Its principal tasks are research and teaching in Astronomy and Geophysics.

Observatorio Astronómico Nacional

The Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN) operates 3 telescopes (2.1m, 1.5m, and 0.84m) up in the mountains of the Sierra San Pedro Martir of Baja California. The observatory offices and workshops are located in Ensenada, B.C. overlooking the Pacific ocean. OAN is a part of the Instituto de Astronomía of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Ohio State University - Department of Astronomy

Provides information about the personnel, research and teaching activities, and resources of the OSU Astronomy Department. Includes our on-line graduate program brochure, links to the personal home pages of faculty, staff, and students, and calendars of local events.

Ohio State University Astrophysics and Cosmology

People and Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology at Ohio State University.

Ohio State University Department of Astronomy ( OSU )

Ohio Univ. - Physics and Astronomy Department

Ohio University - Astronomy and Astrophyics

Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Physics Department of Ohio University at Athens, Ohio.

Open University. Astronomy Group ( UK )

The OU Astronomy Group operates within the Physics and Astronomy Department of the Open University based at Milton Keynes, UK.

Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera/Merate ( OAB )

The Osservatorio di Brera, first settled in Milan 1786, is now split in the two sites of Brera-Milano (hosting a small historical museum with the original Schiaparelli telescope) and Merate (with a park and three domes still operating). Optical and X-ray astronomy and instrumentation are the major topics studied by people in the OAB.

Osservatorio astronomico di Capodimonte

Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste ( OAT )

OAT Activities include: Physics of the sun and of the solar system, Physics of the stars, the interstellar medium and of the galaxy, Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, Astronomical technologies, and Space astronomy.

Padova Astronomical Observatory

Padova Univ. - Astrophysics Group

Palermo Astronomical Observatory

Paris 7 Univ. - Spatial and Planetary Geophysics Laboratory ( Saint Maur des Fossés )

[also in French]

Paris Observatory ( OP )

The Observatoire de Paris is located on 3 sites: Paris, Meudon and Nançay. It is a research center in astronomy and astrophysics. It depends on the Ministry of Youth, National Education and Research, and belongs to Great Establishments. Its status is that of a University, by derogation. [also in French]

Paris-Sud Univ. - Orsay Terre - Planetology Team

[also in French]

Peking University (Department of Astronomy) ( PKU )

The Department of Astronomy at Peking University was formally established in June 2000. It used to be an Astronomy Section in the Department of Geophysics for more than 40 years. After the year 2000, the Department has entered a rapidly developing era and is currently co-supported by the Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The Department of Astronomy is offering both undergraduate and graduate programs to students who wish to study astronomy and astrophysics, as well as postdoctoral positions to young scientists.
There are 10 faculty members in the department, including 6 full professors and 4 associate professors. The main research programs currently ongoing are: cosmology and physics of galaxies; active galactic nuclei and accretion physics, high energy astrophysics; radio astronomy; molecular clouds and star formation; gas nebulae physics; astrophysical methods.

Penn State - QSO Absorption Line Group ( PSU )

Pennsylvania State University - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics ( PSU )

Peru Astronomy Research Centre and Space Agency ( CONIDA )

Astronomy Research Centre of Peru. CONIDA is the National Commission for Space Research and Development. [in Spanish]

Perugia Univ. Astronomical Observatory & Astrophysics Section ( OAUP )

Osservatorio Astronomico e Gruppo di Astrofisica. The site contains information on the two astronomical facilities of the Perugia University Astronomical Observatory: the robotic telescope of the Perugia astronomical station, and the IRAIT telescope at the Coloti (Montone) astronomical station. This site contains also information on the local research and collaborations, expecially in telescope automation, IRAIT Antarctic Infrared Telescope, blazar optical monitoring, late stages of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, GLAST gamma-ray NASA satellite and the REM telescope.

Physical Research Laboratory - Astronomy and Astrophysics Division ( PRL )

Members of the Astronomy & Astrophysics Division of Physical Research Laboratory are engaged in research work on the Sun, stars and galaxies. Observational facilities include a 1.2m Infrared Telescope at Mt. Abu, India and a Solar Observatory at Udaipur, India. The research work includes (i) studies of the solar corona, (ii) radio astronomy, (iii) kinematic studies of gaseous nebulae, (iv) near-IR studies of novae, eclipsing binaries, symbiotic stars, Wolf-Rayet stars, (v) lunar occultation studies in the near-IR, (vi) AGNs, BL Lacs, dust lanes in galaxies, optical morphologies of radio and Markarian galaxies.
Observing instruments are based on 1k x 1k CCD, near-IR InSb and NICMOS3 detectors, Fabry Perot spectrometers, polarimeter etc.

Pisa University - Astronomy and Astrophysics Section

Planetary Science Institute ( PSI )

The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) is a non-profit organization ( a division of San Juan Institute) that conducts a wide variety of basic research in planetary science and allied fields. Established in Tucson, Arizona, in 1972, the Institute has a number of multi-faceted research programs in planetary astronomy, lunar and planetary geology, and planetary geophysics and dynamics. PSI's Astrophysics Group conducts research on cataclysmic variables, CCD observational techniques and instrumentation, multi-wavelength observations, faint object photometry, and extra-Solar planet searches. PSI currently emphasizes Mars, satellites, asteroids , and comets, as well as the origin of planets. Our scientists have participated in NASA spacecraft missions, such as Mariner 9, Viking, and Mars Observer, and are presently involved in the Galileo Mission to Jupiter and the NEAR Mission to Eros.

Polish Academy of Sciences - Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre ( CAMK )

The Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre (CAMK) is a reasearch institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It has been founded in 1978. The Centre employs 33 researchers and teaches 22 PhD students. The fields of research cover astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology. [also in Polish]

Pomona College - Astronomy Program

Includes a complete description of the Pomona College astronomy program, a tour of the Frank Brackett Observatory, and a tour of the 40" telescope in the nearby San Gabriel Mountains.

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile - Astronomy and Astrophysics Department ( PUC Chile )

Departamento de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Facultad de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Porto Univ. - Astrophysics Centre ( CAUP )

The Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto also holds a planetarium. [also in Portuguese]

Potchefstroom University - Physics Department: Space Research Unit

Poznan Observatory ( A. Mickiewicz University )

Information on the staff and research activities.

Princeton University - Pulsar Group

The home page of the pulsar research group in the department of physics of Princeton University, this site includes pointers to the home pages of group members, a collection of pulsar related resources and pointers to our supported data analysis software (including TEMPO), and links to radio astronomy observatories and related sites.

Princeton University Astrophysics Graduate Program

Princeton University Observatory

PRL - Planetary and Geosciences Division ( PGS-DN )

Research Programmes of this Division aim to understand the origin and evolution of the Solar System, physical and chemical processes occurring on the Earth surface reservoirs through analysis of isotopic, chemical and luminescence signatures.

PRL - Planetary Sciences and Exploration Program ( PLANEX )

The objectives of the PLANEX program are to strengthen Planetary Science Research in India and provide a forum for planning and implementation of Planetary Exploration Missions of the Indian Space Research Organization.

PRL - SOXS & Sub-millimeter Wave Astronomy ( SOXS / SMM )

Research Programmes of this Group aim to study various Star Forming Regions, Planetary Atmospheres, Laboratory Spectroscopy and Development of High-Resolution Heterodyne Receiver system for Sub-millimeter wave Astronomy.

Pulkovo Observatory ( Saint-Petersburg )

The Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences is situated near Saint-Petersburg. It was founded in 1839. [also in Russian]

Purdue University High Energy Astrophysics ( HEAp )

Pushchino Radioastronomy Observatory (PRAO) ( PRAO )

Pushchino Radioastronomy Observatory of Astro Space Center of P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute (PRAO ASC LPI).

QMW - Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomical Research interests at QMW include: Millimetre, submillimetre and infrared wavelength studies of Star Forming regions, Molecular Clouds, Interstellar Chemistry, Planetary Astrophysics, Extragalactic Astronomy, Solar System Studies and Dynamics, Solar and Stellar Physics, Space Plasmas, Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Gravitation and Cosmology, and a programme of astronomical instrumentation development in the millimetre, submillimetre and far infrared spectral regions. Also contains a Preprint Server, an Image Library, an on-line Postgraduate Prospectus, and links to other activities in the Physics and Mathematics Departments.

Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Physics Department Astronomy Group ( UK )

Queen Mary, University of London, Astronomy Unit ( QMUL )

The QMUL Astronomy Unit is one of the UK's premier centres for research and postgraduate education, attracting students, postdoctoral research fellows and distinguished visitors from around the world.

Queen's University - Astronomy Group

Queen's University Belfast - Astrophysics and Planetary science division ( Belfast )

Racah Institute of Physics ( Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel )

Includes a group of Astrophysics, Cosmology and General Relativity.

Radio Astronomy at University of Indianapolis ( Educational radiotelescope )

The radio telescope at Radio Astronomy at the University of Indianapolis is a 5 meter educational radio telescope. It has operated for two years on C band at abour 4 GHZ. The data from the radio telescope goes on the WWW as the data is recorded. The web page contains information about radio astronomy, a page that graphs the users selected data files and many data files. Software to do data processing on the data files is available for download. There are sample graphs of observations. The site contains complete technical data about the radio telescope and instructions on building a simple radio telescope.

Raman Research Institute ( RRI )

The Raman Research Institute has been active in the area of Astronomy/ Astrophysics research for over two decades. The observational programmes have focussed mainly on Radio Astronomy. The Institute has been involved in the construction and operation of several major radio telescopes. Scientists at the Institute observe with these telescopes, as well as many other facilities across the world.

Rennes Geosciences

Rennes University

[in French]

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Department of Physics, applied Physics and Astronomy ( RPI )

Research in the Astrophysics Group is centered around the properties of interstellar dust and the role of dust in physical processes such as star formation and interstellar chemistry.

Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics ( RCfTA )

ts members undertake research in theoretical astrophysics with special emphasis on the fundamental physics of stars and on the physics of non-thermal phenomena.

Rhodes University - Department of Physics

The Rhodes University Physics Department, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Rice Space Institute ( RSI )

The mission of the Rice Space Institute is to"Make the Universe Smaller" by interdisciplinary research and education at all levels, charting the course for the next generation of peaceful uses of space.

Rice University - Department of Space Physics and Astronomy

The Department of Space Physics & Astronomy at Rice University is currently involved in many different aspects of space physics and astrophysics research with plasma physics linking the two disciplines as an underlying theme. Theoretical Solar System Physics; Experimental Solar System Physics; Theoretical Astrophysics; Observational Astronomy; Atomic and Atmospheric Physics

Rio Grande do Sul - Physics Institute ( IF-UFRGS )

The Instituto de Fisica of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul includes an Astronomy Department and an Astronomical Observatory. [in Portuguese]

Ritter Astrophysical Research Center

The Ritter Astrophysical Research Center is associated with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Toledo. The Center includes faculty and graduate students working in the fields of stellar, interstellar, planetary, and extragalactic astrophysics. The Center's facilities include a 1m reflector equipped with two fiber-fed spectrographs.

Romanian Academy Astronomical Institute

Rome Astronomical Observatory ( OAR )

The Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma is one of the 12 Astronomical Observatories in Italy. Their institutional task is to undertake research in astronomy for the advancement of scientific knowledge and to develop and maintain world class instrumentation and facilities.

Rome University Tor Vergata: Astrophysics ( Tor Vergata astrophysics )

University of Rome " Tor Vergata" Physics Department, Astrophysics Group.

Rothney Astrophysical Observatory ( RAO )

The Rothney Astrophysical Observatory is the principal astrophysical teaching and research facility of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Calgary.

Rothney Astrophysical Observatory ( RAO ): The RAO has a 1.8-m alt-alt mounted telescope equipped with infrared and optical photometers. The latter inludes a Photometrics 1024x1024 Photometrics CCD camera and the Rapid Alternate Detection System photoelectric photometer. Other, newly refurbished telescopes are a 0.5-m modified Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera, now an equatorially mounted Patrol Camera with 3Kx3K FLI CCD camera, and a 0.4-m English Cross-axis mounted equatorial telescope with optimized Newtonian focus and FLI 1024x1024 CCD camera. Open House evemts are held monthly from late Spring to early Fall. A new Visitors' Centre is expected to be open in late summer, 2004.

Royal Observatory of Belgium ( KSB-ORB )

The Royal Observatory of Belgium was founded in 1834 and moved to its present location (Uccle) in 1890. The site offers a large overview of the research activities in astronomy and geophysics

Rutgers University Astronomy

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Astrophysics Division ( RAL )

The Astrophysics Division undertakes research and projects in Space Science. The research is mainly directly related to the Space projects in the Department and covers Astronomy and also Solar System Science in the areas of Space Plasma Physics, Solar Physics and Planetary Science. The project work involves space instruments in these same areas and the provision of science support to programmes undertaken in other Divisions. In addition, the Optics Group provides a central facility for optical work in the Department.

Saint Mary's University - Department of Astronomy and Physics ( SMU )

Saint Petersburg University Astronomical Institute

astrophysics, stellar dynamics, celestial mechanics, and astrometry.

San Diego State University - Astronomy Department ( SDSU )

San Francisco State University - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( SFSU )

Research activities include search for extrasolar planets.

Santa Catarina Federal Univ. - Astrophysics Group ( GAS-UFSC )

Grupo de Astrofisica of the Departamento de Física Centro de Ciências Físicas e Matemáticas of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). [in Portuguese]

Santa Cruz Astrophysical Group ( Theoretical and Observational Astrophysics Lab )

The Astrophysical Group of the Laboratório de Astrofísica Teórica e Observacional was created in April 2001 at University Estadual de Santa Cruz - Ilheus in the state of Bahia in Brazil. The group's researchers teach classes mainly for undergraduate students in Physics. We also develop training programs in astrophysics with the students (in order to provide them the necessary skills to follow a graduate program in astrophysics). This page intends to show our research work, as well as our goals and projects. [also in Portuguese]

Sao Paulo Univ. - Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences - Astronomy Department ( IAG-USP )

The Departamento de Astronomia is part of the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas of the Universidade de São Paulo. [also in Portuguese]

Seoul National Univ. - College of Natural Sc. - Astronomy Department ( SNU )

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory ( SHAO )

Slovak Academy of Sciences, Astronomical Institute

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1) ( SAO )

Solar Physics at Stanford University

Observational and theoretical research in the physics of the sun is carried out at Stanford University in several research groups. The Wilcox Solar Observatory and Solar Oscillations Investigation programs are conducted by a group of scientists and supporting staff associated with the Center for Space Science and Astrophysics (CSSA) and the Hansen Exerimental Physics Laboratories (HEPL), under the direction of Philip H. Scherrer (CSSA and the Department of Physics).

Solar-Terrestrial Physics Home Page ( STP )

Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division of the National Geophysical Data Center home page. Includes several various STP disciplines within the Center: geomagnetism, Iononosphere, Solar and Upper Atmosphere, and two satellite programs: GOES and DMSP. DMSP is a two satellite constellation of near-polar orbiting, sun-synchronous satellites monitoring meteorological, oceanographic and solar-terrestrial physics environments. NGDC maintains an archive of all data recorded on DMSP satellites as relayed to NGDC by Air Force Global Weather Central. Data from March 1992 to March 1994, are considered to be experimental. After March 1994, the system should be fully operational.

Sonoma State University - Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

South African Astronomical Observatory ( SAAO )

The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the National Facility for optical/infrared astronomy in South Africa. Its prime function is to further fundamental research in astronomy and astrophysics at a national and international level through the provision and use of a world-class astronomical facility.

Southampton Univ. - General Relativity Group

Southampton Univ. - Physics & Astro. Department - Solar-Terrestrial physics group ( STP )

Southwest Missouri State University - Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials science ( SMSU )

Southwest Missouri State University has an extensive Astronomy program, including studies using their Baker Observatory which is conveniently located outside of the city's lights. Studies started here can lead to a Ph.D. in Astronomy.

Southwest Research Institute - Department of Space Studies ( SwRI )

Space Astronomy Laboratory ( SAL/Wisconsin )

The University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory (SAL) designs and builds experiments to do research in space-based astronomy with emphasis on the ultraviolet part of the spectrum.

Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics Laboratory ( LESIA, Paris Observatory )

A department of Paris Observatory. Space astrophysics and instrumentation.

Space Telescope Science Institute ( STScI )

STScI is responsible for the scientific operations of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). STScI is operated by Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under contract to NASA.

Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences ( SAO RAS )

SAO is Russia's main centre for ground-based space research. The Observatory is located in the South of Russia, in the Caucasus mountains of Karachaevo-Cherkesia. The basic instruments of the Observatory are the 6-meter optical telescope BTA (Big Alt-azimuth Telescope) and the 600-meter radio telescope RATAN-600.

Stanford University Astrophysics

Stellar and Exo-planetary Interferometry Lab. ( LISE )

Laboratoire d'Interféromètrie Stellaire et Exoplanétaire.

Stephen F. Austin State University Observatory ( SFASU )

Facilities, research, and personnel of the SFASU Observatory.

Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow)- Relativistic Astrophysics Department ( SAI )

Relativistic Astrophysics Department of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute.

Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( Heliophysics, internal structure and Seismology )

This home page belongs to a small group of scientists working at Sternberg Astronomical Institute which is a part of Moscow State University.

Sternberg Astronomical Institute ( SAI (Moscow ): SAI Crimean Observatory SAI Astronomical Databases Browse SAI Software archive(ftp.sai.msu.su) Here you may find email address (Internet) of people at Sternberg Astronomical Institute. Stellar astrophysics department Solar structure studies group Division of Gravitational Measurements

Steward Observatory

The Steward Observatory Home Page provides information on the academic and research activities of the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy as well as information on the facilities of Steward Observatory.

Stichting ASTRonomisch Onderzoek in Nederland / Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy ( ASTRON, Dwingeloo )

The Stichting ASTRonomisch Onderzoek in Nederland(Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy) is a government funded institute with a mission of developing and maintaining innovative instrumentation and observing facilities for astronomers in the Netherlands.
Our strategy to do this is to provide front-line observing facilities for Dutch astronomers across a broad range of frequencies and techniques.
To this end, we built and operate the radio telescope at Westerbork, one of the largest and most sensitive radio telescopes in the world. We also develop advanced instrumentation for studying the content, structure and evolution of the Universe, and for exploring exotic physical phenomena that cannot be studied in the laboratory.
Our ambition for the future is to help develop the technologies necessary for a new generation of sensitive radio telescopes, capable of detecting objects over the entire past history of the Cosmos.

Stockholm Observatory

Stockholm Observatory is the Department of Astronomy at Stockholm University.

Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory ( Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg )

The Strasbourg astronomical Observatory is an institute of the Université Louis Pasteur. It hosts the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center (CDS). Research activities are in the following fields: Stellar Populations and Galactic Evolution; High-Energy astrophysics; Cosmology; Information handling. The Observatory hosts a Planetarium.

SUNY Stony Brook Astronomy Group

Sussex Univ. - Physics & Astronomy Department

Contains information on the department: people, research groups, courses. Also has available to download copies of recent (last 12 months) publications and preprints.

Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing

The Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing is hosted by the School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.

Szeged Astronomical Observatory ( Hungary )

Astronomy education and research at University of Szeged.

Taiwan National Central Univ. - Physics Department ( NCU )

[also in Chinese]

Tallinn Technical Univ. - Physics Institute ( TTU )

The Institute of Physics of the Tallinn Technical University consists of 4 departments: theoretical physics, astronomy observatory, station of gravimetry, and applied physics. [also in Estonian]

Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National Univ. - Astronomical Observatory

Tartu Observatory

Tasmania Univ. - Astrophysics ( UTAS )

University of Tasmania - School of Mathematics and Physics - Discipline of Physics - Research in Astrophysics: Cosmic ray astronomy; Optical & X-Ray astronomy; Radio-Astronomy.

Tata Institute for Fundamental Research - Astronomy and Astrophysics Department ( TIFR )

Tel Aviv University, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Research activities: The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute, The Florence and George Wise Observatory, the TAUVEX UV experiment.

Teramo Astronomical Observatory ( OACT )

Osservatorio Astronomico Collurania di Teramo. [in Italian]

Terrestrial and Planetary Dynamics ( OMP )

[in French]

Terrestrial and Planetary Environment Study Centre ( CETP )

Texas A&M University. High Energy Physics Group

Information server operated by the High Energy Physics Group at Texas A&M University

Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen ( TAC )

Theoretical Astrophysics Group, University of Tokyo ( UTAP )

Thessaloniki University Astronomical Department

Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg ( TLS )

The observatory is running a 2m telescope which can be used in three different optical configurations: Schmidt telescope Cassegrain telescope Coude telescope

Time-Space Reference SYstems Department ( SYRTE, Paris Observatory )

SYstèmes de Référence Temps-Espace.

Timisoara Astronomical Observatory, Romania

The Astronomical Institute of Romania, Astronomical Observatory Timisoara.

Timisoara West University - Phys. Faculty ( UVT )

The research at the Faculty of Physics of the UVT (Romania) includes research of astrophysical interest.

Tohoku University, Graduate school of science, Institute of Astronomy

Torino Astrometric Group ( Torino Astronomical Observatory )

Torino Astronomical Observatory ( OAT, Italy )

Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory ( TRAO )

Torun Radio Astronomy Observatory (TRAO), now part of Torun Centre for Astronomy is an educational and research facility of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Faculty of Astronomy and Physics, Torun, Poland. The Observatory main instrument is 32m modern design radio telescope usable up to 50 GHz. Presently equipped with cooled receivers for L and C bands is used extensively for VLBI, pulsar timing and spectroscopy. Since April 1998 Torun is the full member of the EVN.

Tufts University Astronomy Program

The Astronomy Program at Tufts University includes resources for both education and research in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and physics. Links include information on our undergraduate program in Astrophysics as well as Solar Physics research into coronal magetic fields and their relation to noise storms on the sun.

Tuorla Observatory ( Finland )

U.S. Naval Observatory ( USNO )

The U.S. Naval Observatory performs an essential scientific role for the United States, the Navy, and the Department of Defense. Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, stars and other celestial objects, providing astronomical data; determining precise time; measuring the Earth's rotation; and maintaining the Master Clock for the United States.

UCLA - Earth & Space Sciences Department ( UCLA ESS )

Our programs include planetary science, isotope geochemistry, cosmochemistry, continental tectonics, structural geology, mineral physics, paleobiology, geodynamics, seismology, and space physics.

UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Space Science Center

Magnetospheric physics, Solar Wind Coupling and Geomagnetic Activity, Space Simulations and Space Physics

UCM Astrophysics Department ( Madrid )

UCR-IGPP - Astrophysics Group

UCR is active in the areas of space physics, plasma astrophysics, and observation astronomy. All of this research is performed within the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UCR.

UK Astronomy Technology Centre ( UKATC )

UK Dark Matter Collaboration ( PPARC, UK )

The UK Dark Matter Collaboration is a consortium of astrophysicists and particle physicists, conducting experiments with the ultimate goal of detecting rare scattering events which would occur if the Galactic dark matter consists largely of a new heavy neutral particle.

Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences - Institute of Radio Astronomy

UMIST Astrophysics Group ( UMIST )

The page contains general information about the group, and has pointers to pages with local preprints, information about the UMIST rate file of astrophysical chemical reactions, information about the 'Shocks in Astrophysics' meeting, as well as pointers useful pages in other places.

United States Naval Observatory - Astronomy Department ( USNO )

The Astrometry Department is responsible for the determination of the positions and motions of stars and solar system objects and the establishment of celestial reference frames. Naturally, this work is done in cooperation with other DoD and US agencies, organizations in other countries and the International Astronomical Union.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Grupo de Astrofísica ( UAM )

This is the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Research activities include star formation, HII regions, chemical evolution of galaxies, stellar populations in AGNs, numerical cosmology and galaxy formation.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - Instituto de Astronomía

[in Spanish]

Universitat de Barcelona - Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia

Universitat de les Illes Balears - Solar Physics at Department of Physics ( U.I.B. (Spain )

Research in Solar Physics at the Physics Department of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain)

Universite de Montreal - Groupe d'Astrophysique

[English] Universite Laval - Groupe de recherche en astrophysique

Group of Research in Astrophysics of the Université Laval. Description of research projects. Science with HST. Picture gallery. Individual members. Recent publications. Links with other Astronomy/Astrophysics groups. Member of the Centre de recherche Observatoire du Mont Mégantic (OMM). [in French]

Universite Libre de Bruxelles - Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique ( ULB-IAA )

The Institut d'Astronomie of the Université Libre de Bruxelles has a long tradition of research in the field of nuclear astrophysics. It hosts the NACRE (Nuclear Astrophysics Compilation of Reaction Rates) and NetGen (Network Generator) web interfaces to generate nuclear reaction rates for use with stellar-evolution codes.

Universities Space Research Association ( USRA )

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is a private, nonprofit corporation organized in 1969 by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of NASA. Upon incorporation, the Association was vested in a consortium of universities. That consortium now consists of seventy-eight member universities.The Association is chartered to provide a means through which universities and other research organizations may cooperate with one another, with the government of the United States and with other organizations toward the development of knowledge associated with space science and technology. The Association is further chartered to acquire, plan, construct and operate laboratories and other facilities for research, development and education associated with space science and technology.

University College London - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University College, Cork, Ireland - Astronomy Research Group ( UCC )

This is the homepage of the Astrophysics Research Group in the Physics Department at University College, Cork, Ireland. The page describes the research, astrophysics degree programme, observatory, studentships and personnel.

University College. Mullard Space Science Laboratory ( MSSL, UK )

Department of Space and Climate Physics at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, part of University College, London. This page contains links to information about the laboratory, groups and projects based at MSSL.

University of Adelaide - Astrophysics Group

University of Alabama - Department of Physics and Astronomy

A listing of faculty, postdocs, and graduates students as well as information on the Graduate program of study, the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, and a description of research facilities. Online preprints, job listings, and other information will be added soon.

University of Arizona - Theoretical Astrophysics Program

The server of the Theoretical Astrophysics Program at the University of Arizona contains information about faculty reserach and graduate student studies, and provides links to other web servers useful to the Astronomy/ Astrophysics community. Computer graphics and simulations generated by members of the group will also be featured as this server continues to develop.

University of Birmingham - Space Research

University of British Columbia - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( Astro@UBC )

These are the pages for the astronomy group in the larger Physics and Astronomy Department at UBC located in Vancouver, Canada. Information on both research and educational activities is available.

University of Calgary - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Calgary Radio Astronomy Laboratory

University of California - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics ( IGPP )

The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) is a Multi-Campus Research Unit (MRU) of the University of California. Its fundamental mission is to promote and coordinate basic research on the understanding of the origin, structure, and evolution of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe, and on the prediction of future changes, as they affect human life. The Institute was founded at UC Los Angeles in 1946 and expanded to include eight branches (UCLA, UCSD, UCR, UCSC, LANL, LLNL, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley) since then.

University of California Observatories - Lick Observatory (WWW) ( UCO/Lick )

Lick Observatory Anonymous ftp

University of California Santa Barbara Physics ( UCSB )

Theoretical Astrophyics Astrophysics and Relativity General Relativity and Quantum Gravity Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology

University of California, Berkeley - Astronomy Department ( UCB-Astronomy )

The UCB Astronomy Home Page contains general information about the department. We maintain links for faculty, staff, post docs and students so that they may make papers, images, and other information available. Also included are an e-mail directory for the department, and links to related institutions.

University of California, Irvine - Department of Physics & Astronomy ( UCI )

University of California, LA - Department of Physics and Astronomy (UCLA) ( UCLA )

Home page for the Astronomy Division of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. Information on faculty, staff, graduate students, graduate programs, and research programs.

University of California, Riverside - High Energy Astrophysics ( UCR )

Information on current research in High Energy Astrophysics being conducted at the University of California, Riverside.

University of California, San Diego - Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences ( UCSD - CASS )

The Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences at UC San Diego is the birthplace of the multi-channel Digicon photon detectors. Four of these are used on two instruments, the UCSD Faint Object Spectrometer (FOS), and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrometer (GHRS), on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Available at this site is information relating to the activities, facilities, and personnel at CASS. The Faint Object Spectrograph group, its history, and related areas of research are described in detail.

University of California, Santa Barbara - Astrophysics & Cosmology Group ( UCSB )

University of Cape Town - Department of Applied Mathematics: Cosmology Group ( UCT )

University of Cape Town - Department of Physics: Astrophysics Group ( UCT )

University of Central Lancashire Centre for Astrophysics

Home Page of the University of Central Lancashire Centre for Astrophysics, Preston, Lancashire, UK.

University of Chicago - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Our server has information about our graduate program, brief descriptions of our research, listings of the members of our department (and their personal home pages, if applicable). Several research groups also have pages; this web server is home to the web pages for Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum and Yerkes Observatory.

University of Cincinnati, Department of Physics ( UC Physics )

The Department of Physics at the University of Cincinnati offers masters and Ph.D. degrees in Physics with an Astronomy Dissertation.

University of Colorado - Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics ( JILA )

JILA is the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a joint institute run by the University of Colorado and the National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST).

University of Delaware - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Edinburgh - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Florida Astronomy Dept.

University of Georgia, Dept of Physics and Astronomy

Astronomy at UGA

University of Glasgow. Department of Physics & Astronomy ( UK )

University of Hawaii - Institute for Astronomy ( UH - IfA )

University of Hawaii, Hilo - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UH, Hilo )

University of Hawaii, Manoa - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Hertfordshire - Department of Physics & Astronomy ( UK )

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Astronomy Department ( UIUC )

University of Iowa - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Kansas - Cosmology Group

University of Kentucky: Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Leicester - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Louisville - Moore Observatory

Moore Observatory is located in the Horner Wildlife Sanctuary near Louisville, KY. A computer-controlled 0.5 meter telescope, fiber optically coupled spectrograph, and wide field spectral imaging camera are used there to investigate physical processes in comets and low surface brightness emission nebulae. This resource describes the observatory and its environs, and provides a link to astrophysics research at the University of Louisville.

University of Manchester - Astronomy Group

Available are contact details, research interests of the group members, preprints and publications, course details, a frequently updated collection of links to items of interest to astronomers.

University of Maryland - Planetary Data System ( PDSSBN )

This node is currently located in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park. It supports the publicly accessible files for the Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node, and the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Bulletin Board.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Joint Center for Astrophysics ( UMBC/JCA )

The JCA is a collaboration between the Physics Department at UMBC and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt MD). As such the JCA serves as an umbrella for employment oppportunities for PhD astronomers at either/both institutions. The JCA also offers both undergraduate and graduate-level astrophysics courses at UMBC, the latter leading to a PhD in Applied Physics.

University of Maryland, College Park - Astronomy Department

University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Department of Astronomy

The University of Massachusetts Astronomy Program's Web site offers information on the Graduate Program, including information on research projects and the individual research programs of the department members, and a directory of astronomical images at a variety of wavelength.

University of Melbourne - School of Physics: Astrophysics Group

University of Michigan Astronomy Department ( U. Mich. Astronomy )

Includes Interactive Radio Observatory Database

University of Minnesota - Astronomy Department ( U Minn )

University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Physics

University of New Hampshire - Department of Physics

The Department of Physics at the University of New Hampshire has an extensive range of research including: space physics/astrophysics, nuclear physics, nonlinear dynamics and condensed matter.

University of New Hampshire - High Energy Astrophysics Group

COMPTEL Project.

University of New South Wales - Department of Astrophysics and Optics

University of New South Wales - School of Physics ( UNSW )

University of North Carolina Physics and Astronomy

The SOAR Telescope Project The Grand Challenge

University of Nottingham - School of Physics and Astronomy

University of Oklahoma - Physics and Astronomy Department

University of Oregon - Physics Department

Consists of educational materials related to Astronomy, Weather, Energy and Environment, and Planet Earth. In addition, hypertext electronic textbooks and lessons are being developed. Contains The Galaxy Gallery, Electronic TextBook, and more...

University of Oxford - Astrophysics

University of Pennsylvania - Physics Department ( High-Energy Astrophysics )

University of Pisa, Italy - Space Mechanics Group

Space Mechanics Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, ITALY. This home page gives access to: People (personal home pages), Resarch projects (subject home pages), Publications lists Data bases: asteroid proper elements (ftp server).

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Physics & Astronomy

University of Queensland - Astrophysics Group

University of Rochester - Near Infrared Group

Colloquial description of some of the activities of the group of astronomers at the University of Rochester, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Not kept up to date.

University of Rochester - Astronomy and Astrophysics Group

University of Sheffield astronomy group

The site of the Astronomy Group at the University of Sheffield describes the research interests of the staff and the courses in astronomy offered by the University.

University of Southampton - Astronomy Group

University of St. Andrew - Astronomy Group ( UK )

Research Areas: Interacting Binaries, Accretion, Cool Stars, Helium Stars, AGN, Extra Solar Planets.
Also home of: The James Gregory Telescope (0.94m optical - largest in UK).

University of St. Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy ( UK )

The server of School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews. provides information on teaching and research activities in this modern school within an ancient University

University of Sydney - School of Physics

University of Sydney: Astrophysics Department ( Sydney )

University of Tasmania - Radioastronomy Group

University of Tennessee, Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Texas, Austin - Department of Astronomy

University of Toledo - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UT-P&A )

Details on the department including faculty, research projects, and the Ritter Astrophysical Research Center. The Center includes a 1m optical reflector equipped with both a low/medium resolution spectragraph and an echelle spectrograph.

University of Toronto - Department of Astronomy

Encompasses the David Dunlap Observatory and the library and provides links to other UofT and Canadian servers.

University of Utah - Physics

University of Victoria - Physics and Astronomy Department

Gopher

University of Virginia - Astronomy Department

University of Wales, College of Cardiff - Department of Physics and Astronomy

University of Washington - Department of Astronomy

The Department participates in these major projects: Apache Point Observatory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA High Performance Computing and Communications. The HPCC Project offers the results of simulations including gas dynamics or just dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY.

University of Washington - HPCC/ESS Project

The Department of Astronomy offers the results of simulations including SPH gas dynamics and dark matter. Their software exchange contains N-body codes, tools for particle based codes, and the Theoretical Image Processing System, TIPSY.

University of Washington - Physics Department

University of Waterloo - Astronomy Group

University of Western Ontario - Astronomy

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( UWEC )

University of Wisconsin-Madison - Astronomy Department

Also contains: Woodman Astronomical Library

University of Wyoming Physics and Astronomy

Atomic and Molecular Optics Atmosphere Science Physics Education Astronomy and Astrophysics Theoretical Physics Current publications - Some pre-prints and Poster Papers

UNLV Department of Physics ( UNLV )

Uppsala Astronomical Observatory

The WWW-server contains information about research activities etc, at the astronomical observatory at Uppsala University.

Uppsala Univ. - Astronomy and Space Physics Department

The Department of Astronomy and Space Physics consists of two sub-departments: the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory and the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala. [also in Swedish]

USC Astronomy

physics graduate students may participate in the ongoing research in astronomy. Members of the Astronomy group include Professors Don Barry, Werner Dappen, Gibson Reaves, and Edward Rhodes.

USC Space Sciences Center

The Space Sciences Center, directed by Professor Darrell L. Judge, is engaged in both laboratory and space based investigations. Current deep space, sounding rocket, and space shuttle flight experiments investigate the characteristics of planetary atmospheres, the interplanetary medium, and the sun through remote sensing optical techniques. Recently in situ neutral particle detection techniques have been developed to extend the capability of our remote sensing heliospheric space experiment. The Space Sciences Center also has a vigorous program in the physics of binary star systems and in the analysis of luminosity variations in B and O type stars

Utrecht University - Faculteit Natuur & Sterrenkunde ( The Netherlands )

Server of the Faculty of Physics & Astronomy at Utrecht University

Utrecht University - Sterrenkundig Institut

Valongo Observatory and Astronomy Department ( OV-UFRJ )

The Observatório do Valongo and the Departamento de Astronomiaare of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro are located in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). [in Portuguese]

Vassar College - Department of Physics and Astronomy

Vatican Observatory

The Vatican Observatory has its headquarters at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy. Its dependent research center, the Vatican Observatory Research Group (VORG), is hosted by Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Venezuela Centre for Researches in Astronomy ( CIDA )

The Centro de Investigaciones De Astronomia (CIDA, Merida, Venezuela) hosts the biggest telescopes of the earth equatorial belt: schmidt, reflector, refractor, astrograph. [in Spanish]

Victoria Univ. - Astronomy Group ( UVic )

Astronomy Group at the University of Victoria (Physics & Astronomy Department). Information on faculty, graduate students and research associates. Research activities and facilities are described. In addition, a selection of electronic preprints written by members of the Group is also available.

Victoria University of Wellington Astrophysics

Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) Astrophysics group web site. The site describes the group members, their research, and astrophysics courses at VUW. The Astrophysics group is part of the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at VUW.

Vienna Radiation Hydrodynamics Group ( TAG )

Vienna University - Institute for Astronomy

The WWW server of the Institute for Astronomy, at the University of Vienna in Austria, provides information about the Institute and an electronic version of the Delta Scuti Star Newsletter.

Villanova University - Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Virginia Military Institute - Department of Physics and Astronomy ( VMI )

A description of the Astronomy Program at Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Virginia. Includes a description of the VMI Observatory and the astronomy program (along with the Physics Program).

Virginia Tech Astrophysics

The astrophysics group at Virginia Tech is active in extragalactic astronomy and studies of the interstellar medium (ISM)

Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Astrofysisch Instituut ( Belgium )

Wake Forest University Department of Physics

Warsaw University - Astronomical Observatory

Contains general information about our Observatory and the most up-to-date information on the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) -- a long-term, large scale photometric search for dark matter in our Galaxy using microlensing phenomena.

Warwick Univ. - Physics Department - Space and Astrophysics group

Weber State University Physics Department

The Physics Department at Weber State University provides astronomy and astrophysics programs.

Wesleyan University - Astronomy Program

The Department of Astronomy at Wesleyan University offers both BA and MA degrees in astronomy. We include here information on coursework, current faculty research, recent faculty and student preprints and on-going observing programs at Van Vleck Observatory including an extensive Catalog of Photometry of T Tauri Stars.

West Virginia University Astrophysics ( WVU )

Western Kentucky University - Physics and Astronomy Department

Home page for the astronomy group at Western Kentucky University and the Hardin Planetarium, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The department is a collaborator in CASS: NASA University Research Center for Automated Space Science, along with Tennessee State University and South Carolina State University. Further links are provided for the Kentucky NASA EPSCoR program and the Kentucky Space Grant Consortium.

Williams College - Astronomy Department

The Williams College Astronomy Department homepage features information on the Department's observatory facilities, links to faculty and staff homepages (with information on faculty and staff background and research interests), links to color CCD images taken at Williams College, current Astronomy Dept. course listings, and information on recent student projects at the observatory.

Wroclaw University, Institute of Theoretical Physics

Wuerzburg University - Institute for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics ( Würzburg )

Yale - Physics, Applied Physics and Astrophysics

Yale University Astronomy Department

Yerevan Physics Institute - Cosmic Ray Division

Yerkes Observatory ( University of Chicago )

Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin hosts the 40" refractor, a 41" reflector, a 24" Boller & Chivens reflector, a 10" educational telescope, and support facilities. The 41" telescope is used for research including adaptive optics studies.

York University - Department of Physics and Astronomy

Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik ( Technische Universitaet Berlin )

The Centre of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Technology Berlin is the only institution of that kind in Berlin. Whereas the research is concentrated at the University of Technology, the institute offers a broad teaching of astronomy and astrophysics at all universities in Berlin (Freie Universität (FU), Humboldt Universität (HU), Technische Universität (TU)). Students may study Astronomy and Astrophysics as a subsidiary or a optional compulsory subject. They can also work at their diploma or doctoral theses.

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