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01 Introduction

http://hubble.nasa.gov/

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/galaxy_worldbook.html

02 History of Astronomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ancient_astronomy

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~pgore/astronomy/astr101/ancient.htm

http://www.traditionsofthesun.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_astronomy

http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/History.html

03 Coordinates & Numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_coordinate_system

http://seds.org/~spider/spider/ScholarX/coords.html

04 Earth's Motion and the Moon

http://www.answers.com/topic/earth-rotation-and-orbital-motion

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/seasons.html

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/175962/2279/The-gravitational-force-FG-exerted-by-the-Sun-on-the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season

http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sseason.htm

05 Calendar & Time Keeping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0002061.html

http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_year

06 Gravitation and Orbital Motion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/gravitation_worldbook.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_momentum

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/solarsys/angmom.html

07 Radiation and Spectra

http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/spectra.html

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/stark/links/spectra.html

http://www.astronomynotes.com/light/s4.htm

08 Telescopes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telescope

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_telescope.html

http://www.fact-index.com/t/te/telescope_1.html

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Telescope/

http://hubble.nasa.gov/

http://www.vla.nrao.edu/

09 & 10 The Solar System

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/ssplanetdata.html

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/solarsys/revolution.html

http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/solar/solarsystemproperties.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec24.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/comet.htm

11 The Sun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solar/sun.html

12 Properties of Stars

http://www.astronomynotes.com/starprop/chindex.htm

http://www.johnpratt.com/items/astronomy/notes/notes10.html

http://www.ucolick.org/~bolte/AY4_04/class3_04bwd.pdf

http://www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html

13 Binary Stars and Star Clusters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_star

http://www.midnightkite.com/binstar.html

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/binary_stars.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_cluster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(star_cluster)

http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/cluster.html

http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/open.html

14 & 15 Stellar Evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution

http://www.stellar-database.com/evolution.html

http://aspire.cosmic-ray.org/labs/star_life/starlife_proto.html

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/birth/proto.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_giant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/black_holes.html

16 Nebulae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebula

http://astro.nineplanets.org/twn/types.html

http://www.space.com/nebulas/

http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/nebula.html

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/

17 The Milky Way

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/milkyway/milkyway.html

http://www.space.com/milkyway/

http://casswww.ucsd.edu/public/tutorial/MW.html

http://mwmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/milky_way_galaxy.html

18 Galaxies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_galaxies

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/galaxy_worldbook.html

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/MESSIER/galaxy.html

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy/

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060410_mm_galaxy_evo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyfert_galaxy

19 Cosmology and the Universe

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/mysteries_l1/origin_destiny.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large-scale_structure_of_the_cosmos

http://images.google.com/images?q=structure+of+the+universe&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=HwdTS4PZOoXPlAflj9CvCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CCQQsAQwAw

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_cosmo_struct.html

http://www.psc.edu/science/evolution.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090818-dark-energy-einstein.html