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- For an introduction to stars and our Sun, go to two Observatorium exhibits:
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http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/space/stars/star_0.html
http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/exhibits/sun/sunframe.html
- If technical language does not scare you and you would like more in-depth information about star formation, go to the Web pages of the UMASS/Five College Astronomy Program and click on "Star Formation Newsletters":
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http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/
- For images of Messier objects, go to pages of the Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University of Alabama, or to the astronomy program of the
University of Oregon (click on "The Messier CCD Gallery"):
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http://crux.astr.ua.edu/gallery2.html
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/galaxy.html
 There are several sites on the web from NASA's Learning Technologies Project (LTP) that offer information about stars and astronomy:
"Public Connection: Earth Views of Space and Space Views of Earth," an outreach site of Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science: -
http://space.rice.edu/hmns/
- "Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground," a set of pages of the Web site "Using Science and the Internet as Everyday Classroom Tools" from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Stellar evolution is discussed in Chapter 7:
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http://hea-www.harvard.edu/ECT/the_book/
- "Windows to the Universe," an innovative and engaging Web site
about the Earth and space sciences:
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http://www.windows.umich.edu/
- The Yohkoh homepage and the "Yohkoh Public Outreach Project: Seeing the Sun in X-Rays" page. These pages have excellent X-ray images of the Sun:
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http://www.lmsal.com/SXT/homepage.html
http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/
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