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Web Sites

The Yohkoh scientists at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center' in cooperation with scientists and educators at Montana state universities' have created an excellent outreach homepage with X-ray images and K-12 educational materials. You will particularly enjoy their animation of the rotating Sun:

http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/

The Lockheed Martin Soft X-ray Telescope team also maintains a page that contains information on the telescope and Yohkoh mission, additional images, and a guide to other solar Web sites:

http://www.lmsal.com/SXT/homepage.html

For X-ray images showing the ejection of matter from the Sun's corona, go to our Observation of the Week of September 11, 1996:

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/nasa/ootw/1997/oarch.html

To learn how the Sun affects the Earth's space environment, go to the Rice University-Houston Museum of Natural Science educational outreach project:

http://Rigel.Rice.Edu/~dmb/spwea.html

For unique images of and additional information about the Sun, go to the Web pages of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). SOHO is a space mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/descriptions/mission/english/page1.html

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/gallery/

For an introduction to stars, what they are, how long they shine, and why they are important to us, go to Stars -- An Introduction:

http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov/exhibits/space/stars/star_0.html

Also check out NASA's "The Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere" at:

http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/Intro.html, and

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's "A Primer on the Space Environment" at:

http://www.sel.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html

Learn more about Stonehenge:

http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~kipper/salisbury/stonehenge.html

Learn more about the Bighorn Medicine Wheel:

http://indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/stars/starkno7.html

Books

A useful resource for specific information about solar science is the book Guide to the Sun, by K. J. H. Phillips, Cambridge University Press, 1996. It contains extensive information on the Sun, particularly current knowledge about the physics and astronomy of the Sun. It is written at the level of popular science magazines. Mathematics has been kept to a minimum.

Another valuable source of information on the Sun and astronomy in general is Exploring the Cosmos by L. Berman and J. C. Evans, HarperCollins College Press, 1987. This is an introductory text that is well organized, well written, and easy to follow and understand.