Links

This list of links to external web sites is by no means exhaustive, and may not always be up-to-date. Please send feedback, suggestions, or corrections to the SPD webmaster.

OTHER SOLAR LINKS PAGES

• AstroWeb's collection of solar astronomy links

• SOHO Explore solar links

• NASA's ORPHEUS list of solar WWW servers

• The Stanford Solar Center's links to solar images and data from ground-based and space-based observatories

• Bill Arnett's NinePlanets entry on The Sun

• Solar links pages from universities (not department home pages):
  • Montana State University
  • University of California San Diego
  • University of Glasgow / UK
  • University of Memphis

COMMUNICATION

• SolarNews, the monthly electronic newsletter of the Solar Physics Division, is available online at both the National Solar Observatory (in full HTML format; site maintained by John Leibacher) and Stanford University (text only; site maintained by Rick Bogart). Items for submission to SolarNews should be sent via the web form.

• SolarMail is an e-mail forwarding system provided as a service to all members of the Solar Physics research community. It allows users to be reached via e-mail anywhere through their username (usually first initial plus last name) on the spd.aas.org server. (SolarNews is delivered directly to SolarMail accounts.)

JOB AND CAREER RESOURCES

• The societies have already assembled many useful links of career services.
  See, for example, job pages of the AAS, the APS, the AGU, and the AAAS.

• The Astro Jobs page of astronomy job links.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Telling time by the Sun
• Andrew Frankoi's list of Science Fiction stories sorted by astronomy topic: The Sun
• Trivia quiz: songs about the Sun (given the titles, guess the artists)
• Great moments in the history of solar physics
• Moldwin's timeline of solar-terrestrial physics
• Best of the Web's Physics links
• Steven Cranmer's Solar Physics Almanac
• Links to myths and folklore about the Sun, from . . . UCAR . . . Stanford . . . about.com