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SITE SUMMARY: Scroll to the bottom of the page, click the "Helen Keller—Writings" link, then search for and click the "June Skies" link, to see this article, published in the June 1932 issue of Home Magazine. Provided online by the American Foundation for the Blind, this article features Keller's comments, thoughts, and feelings, on what she could experience of nature, especially of the sky during the month when the spring season ends and the summer season begins in the Northern Hemisphere, during the daytime and at night, including the night sky as presented in a planetarium. It reveals Keller's unique ways of "observing" physically and with an "inner sight." It also includes what she thought and what she learned that people on the earth could experience of the sky. Find the document directly at http://www.afb.org/info_document_view.asp?documentid=1202.
Skywatching Center
http://www.earthsky.com/Features/skywatching
This site features links to data on Tonight's Sky (for every day of the current month), About Tonight's Sky, Skywatching Forecast, Star Pronunciation Guide, and Skywatchers Toolbox (Internet sources). There are also links to science subjects, including many sky-related items in: News Bulletins, Science FAQs, Articles, and Cool Site Reviews.
StarGazer: The International Edition
http://www.netside.net/starhustler
This site provides the scripts of the latest one-minute and five-minute episodes, plus past shows' scripts, including the first one of November 4, 1976, that are vignettes of current astronomical features presented by "Star Hustler" astronomer Jack Hornheimer, on PBS-TV stations in cooperation with the Miami Museum of Science and Space Transit Planetarium. Note also the Star Hustler's favorite phrase, links to the episodes in online video versions requiring special software, and links to FAQs, Questions and Answers, a Star Hustler biography, listings of planetariums and museums, and favorite links.
Space Calendar at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar
Links by month (including current month) for a full year feature descriptions and links to more data on space related activities and anniversaries. This is information on astronomical occurrences, manned and unmanned space exploration, and other happenings. An archives covers the past two years.
Star Journey
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/chart/index.html
Clicking on a part of a star chart or map of the Northern or Southern Hemisphere brings up illustrations of astronomical features in that part of the sky. Note also on the page for each sky part: a list that indicates particular features on the chart, a link to images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and a link to Star Chart Notes for more information. On the main page, see also links to the Hubble Telescope, for details about this "eye on the universe," and Star Attractions, for interesting features of constellations, star clusters, nebulae, our Milky Way Galaxy, and other galaxies.
Space—In the Spotlight
http://space.about.com/education/space
Note the link to About Space Daily News for information on subjects including space's teenage stars, and what the students of the NASA Student Involvement Program are doing. See also many other links to information on natural happenings in space, current unmanned probe missions, and current humans-in-space happenings. See also highlighted news items of the present and from the past, and This Date in Space History.
The Sky This Month
http://www.wokr13.tv/astro.main.asp
On this Web page, provided by a TV station in Rochester, New York, find out about the astronomical events of the current month, and featuring something about the moon, the planets, the constellations, space missions, and special astronomical events.
Solar System Live ["An Interactive Orrery"]
Select time, date, viewpoint, observing location, orbital elements, and something to track in the solar system. To use this site downloading special software is required.
Some Favorite Links—Astronomy—History of Astronomy
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/index.html
Scroll to Favorite Links, click Astronomy link, then History of Astronomy link, then note links with subjects including Ancient Astronomy, Greek Astronomy, The Art of Renaissance Science, Cosmology since 1900, and people including Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, and Newton.
This Month in the History of Astronomy
http://astro.martianbachelor.com
Originally connected with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society, this periodically updated Web site by an astronomer features links by month to astronomers' biographies, plus astronomical discoveries and events that occurred on particular days and years in history during a particular month.
History of Astronomy—Links
http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/hist_astr
This links page was set up by Wolfgang Dick who has university degrees in physics and astronomy, has worked at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences in the Ukraine, and has done research for the International Earth Rotation Service. The page features links to general information (e.g., overview, brief history, from ancient through twentieth-century astronomy); museums, observatories and other places; topics (e.g., anniversaries, calendars, solar system, constellations, nebulae, star clusters, and more), historians, persons, other information sources, and more links.
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