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Here is Google's new Mars map!
http://www.google.com/mars/
Here is the homepage for the Delta College Planetarium:
http://www.delta.edu/planet/
Are we Observing? Check the local weather:
The local Astronomy Club is the Sunset Astronomical Society:
http://www.boonhill.net/sunset/
Eastern Michigan University's Astronomy Club:
http://www.physics.emich.edu/astrclub/index.htm
For information on Constellations, try...
http://www.dibonsmith.com/index.htm
Space.com has interesting news articles.
http://www.space.com/
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a lot of information about satellites.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Spaceweather.com is a good place to find information about the Sun (flares, sunspots) and auroras.
http://spaceweather.com/
The Hubble site has some spectacular astronomy images.
http://hubblesite.org/
NASA's site has a lot of good information, but you may need a high speed connection to see all of it.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/index.html?skipIntro=1
This links skips to NASA's science news articles.
http://science.nasa.gov/
There's always something interesting on the Astronomy Picture Of the Day!
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Universetoday is run by one person who summarizes the major news stories and provides links to more information.
http://www.universetoday.com/
The Chandra Observatory
http://chandra.harvard.edu/
The Canadian Space Agency
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/index.html
The European Space Agency
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
Google's lunar map
http://moon.google.com/
"From Stargazers to Starships", by David Stern, is a book-on-the-web. It has good explanations of much of the material we cover in AST111 and AST111L as well as an astronomy math review.
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sintro.htm
What is your age on the other planets in our Solar System?
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/
Build a scale model of the Solar System!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/