Links for Astronomy Education and Outreach

This is by no means a comprehensive list! I'm not even sure if these are all still active. (It's just meant to give you some pointers for other resources.)

Index:
        Astronomy-Related Tours and Other Overviews
        Sky Maps and Current Events
        Ask-the-Astronomer
        Image Archives
        K-12 Education
        College Education
        History of Astronomy
        More general science

Astronomy-Related Tours and Other Overviews

Nine Planets, a multimedia tour of the Solar System. (by Bill Arnett.)
Welcome to the Planets, from JPL. See also the NASA/JPL Planetary Photojournal. Nice interface to publicly accessible images from Solar System exploration.
Earth and Moon Viewer. Very cool way of looking at the Earth -- you can pick the latitude, longitude, and altitude from which you want to view the Earth or Moon.
Solar System Live. (An interactive Orrery! "Controls allow you to set time and date, viewpoint, observing location, orbital elements to track an asteroid or comet, and a variety of other parameters.")
The Web Nebulae. (by Bill Arnett.)
On-Line Messier Catalog. (From SEDS at Arizona.) (see also the rest of their site for lots more stuff, including the next item..
Big Eyes: The World's Largest Optical Telescopes. (from SEDS)
Yerkes Observatory virtual tour and other observatories with virtual tours.
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).

Sky Maps and Current Events

Your Sky - generate your own sky maps.
Current phase of the moon.
Other US Naval Observatory data (e.g. sunrise/sunset/twilight/moonrise/moonset)
Sky and Telescope (LOTS of good resources, including How to start out right in astronomy (choosing and using binoculars, telescopes, etc.)
Astronomy Magazine.
Space.com.
Spitzer press release archive
HST News center News Archive (all the images and press releases, sorted by date or subject).
Today @ NASA (current events from their press office).
Astronomy Picture of the Day.
AAS meeting press resources on line. Really aimed at media reps, as opposed to the general public.
Comet Observation Home Page (image archive and viewing tips).
The California and Carnegie Planet Search page (Marcy et al group)

Ask-the-Astronomer

Ask the Astronomer, run by Sten Odenwald.
Ask the Astronomer at Cornell.
Ask the Experts from Scientific American.
Ask A High-Energy Astronomer from HEASARC at the Goddard Space Flight Center.

See also the Usenet sci.astro Frequently Asked Questions file.

Image Archives

NASA/JPL Planetary Photojournal. Nice interface to publicly accessible images from Solar System exploration.
Archive of NGC images from Grove Creek Observatory, Australia.
Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute Public Image Gallery/Archive.
Imagery Services Branch, Digital Image Collection at NASA-JSC. More of the manned missions.
Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD).

K-12 Education

Quest, NASA's K-12 Internet Initiative. Lots of on-line NASA-related projects and resources.
Hands-On Universe, a project from LBL and NSF that allows students to remotely request telescope images and then analyze them.
Cool Cosmos, from our very own IPAC
Amazing Space, from the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Imagine the Universe, from High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEASARC), Goddard Space Flight Center.
Being an Astronomer FAQ, from NOAO. (see also my page on astronomy as a career, women in science, etc.)
New England Space Science Initiative in Education (NESSIE)
AAS education site, see resources page