Appendix B
Selected Web Sites
This book has a companion site on the World Wide Web where you can view images and movies related to space weather, read reviews of the book, and communicate with the authors. Please visit http://www.stormsfromthesun.net.
Below you will find a selection of web sites that we find to be among the most interesting and informative about space weather and its effects.
Overviews of the Sun, Space Physics, and Space Weather
Exploration of the Earth’s Magnetosphere
Interesting Facts and Educational Materials About Space Weather
Live from the Sun
http://www.passporttoknowledge.com/sun
Living in the Atmosphere of the Sun: The Space Weather Center
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/exhibit/
Mission to Geospace
http://istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/
SolarMax IMAX Film
Space Weather at Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/spaceweather
Stanford Solar Center
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/
Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/index.html
Real-Time Space Weather Observations
The Space Weather Bureau
Space Weather Now
What’s Happening Today in Space?
Major Space Weather Programs
European Space Agency
http://www.estec.esa.nl/wmwww/spweather/
High Altitude Observatory
NASA Sun-Earth Connections Science Theme
National Solar Observatory
http://www.nso.noao.edu/index.html
NOAA Space Environment Center
Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SCOSTEP/scostep.html
U.S. Air Force Battlespace Environment Division
http://www.vs.afrl.af.mil/Division/battle.htm
Other Interesting Space Sites
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
Aurora’s Northern Lights
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/curtis/curtis.html
Bad Astronomy
Eclipse Home Page
From Stargazers to Starships
http://www.phy6.org/Stargaze/Sintro.htm
The Galileo Project—Rice University
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/
Mr. Eclipse
In-Flight Radiation Protection Services
http://members.tripod.com/robbarish/
The Planetary Society—Solar Sail Project
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/
Satellite News Digest—Satellite Outages and Failures
http://sat-nd.com/failures/index.html
Shooting the Aurora Borealis