The Astronomical Society of Australia

The Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) was formed back in 1966. It is open to anyone who is contributing to the advancement of Australian Astronomy or to that of a closely related field. http://asa.astronomy.org.au/

Australian Astronomy

The Australian Astronomy website is full of astronomical resources, it is the official website of the Astronomical Society of Australia. http://www.astronomy.org.au/ngn/engine.php

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day is a small website that features a new image of the cosmos everyday with a short explanation of the picture. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

Astronomy For Kids

Astronomy For Kids is a website designed to educate children about the many exciting things about the solar system and the Universe. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/

Portal to the Universe

The Portal to the Universe is a newsfeed and blog dedicated to everything about astronomy and astrophysics. The website also has an impressive amount of features to it. http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/

Einstein@home

The Einstein@home project looks for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars). The project uses data from the LIGO gravitational wave detector. It also searches for radio pulsars in binary systems using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/

MilkyWay@home

The goal of the MilkyWay@home project is to develop a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy, using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This is a project that enables research in both astroinformatics and computer science. http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

SETI@home

SETI@home is the oldest distributed computing project using the BOINC infrastructure. The goal of the SETI@home project is to find extraterrestrial intelligence. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

Cosmology@Home

The goal of the Cosmology@Home project is to find a model that best describes our universe and to find a range of models that agree with the available astronomical and particle physics data. http://www.cosmologyathome.org/

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