Resource Guide:
Astronomy

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Astronomy Center.org
• Science.gov
• National Science Digital Library
• Sky and Telescope magazine online
• Hubble Site.org
• Digital Archive of Historical Astronomy
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• MESSENGER: Mercury Surface and Space Environment
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Photojournal Photos, Solar System Exploration
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Planetary Habitability Laboratory
• SkyView the Internet’s Virtual Telescope
• Herschel Space Observatory

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Practical and spherical astronomy
• Celestial mechanics
• Cosmogony
• Stars
• Eclipses
• Planets
• Cosmological distances
• Asteroids
• Geodesy
• Astrophysics
• Galaxies
• Astronomical instruments
• Astronomical transits
• Plasma astrophysics
• Nebula
• Meteors
• Theoretical astronomy
• Interstellar matter
• Solar system
• Astronomical observatories
• Radio astronomy
• Neutrino astrophysics
• Comets
• Black holes

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• ArXiv
• Astrophysics Data System
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• JSTOR
• OAISter

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Astronomy
• Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Astronomy and Geophysics
• Astronomy Now
• Astronomy Reports
• Space Science Reviews
• Solar System Research
• Astrophysics
• Astrophysics and Space Science
• Astronomical Journal

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.