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Astronomy & Astrophysics: Background Information

Handbooks and Data

Astronomical Almanac
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 103h Edition
Publication Date: 2022

Planetary System Data PDS
Astronomy Image Explorer
SkyView
NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Arcive Research Center
ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey
Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
NASA's Open Data Portal
HyperPhysics
Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (online)
Paper copies are available in the Science Library through 2008.

Selected Books fom the Science Library Reference Collection

Astronomical Phenomena
Call Number: QB 9 U55 Science Library
The NASA Atlas of the Solar System by Ronald Greeley; Raymond Batson
Call Number: G1000 .G7 1997 Science Library - Oversize
Publication Date: 1997
Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy by Joseph A. Angelo
Call Number: QB136 A55 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology by Hans Mark (Editor)
Call Number: QB 497 E53 2003 Also available electronically.
Publication Date: 2003
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics by Paul Murdin (Editor)
Call Number: QB14.E54 2001
Publication Date: 20001