Lately, it seems that space is in the news every day, whether it's about Mars, the Space Shuttle, or the latest pictures from Hubble. We've tried to organize a set of links to the hottest space-related news:

:: NASA Space Flight, where you can find out about current and upcoming shuttle missions.
:: The Space Telescope Science Institute, the official Hubble Space Telescope site.
:: JPL's Galileo home page, for information about Jupiter and its moons.
:: JPL is also working on the Cassini mission, to study Saturn.
:: JPL's Comet Observation Home Page, which includes many Hale-Bopp pictures, among other things.

Here are some observatories the club has visited, or otherwise had interactions with.

:: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Home Page.
:: The National Solar Observatory at Sacramento Peak, New Mexico.
:: Apache Point Observatory, just down the road from Sac Peak.
:: McDonald Observatory, located in western Texas.
:: Lowell Observatory is in Flagstaff, AZ. This is where Percival Lowell observed Mars and Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
:: Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ.
:: Mount Wilson Observatory, just outside of Los Angeles.
:: Palomar Observatory, also located near L.A., is home of the world-famous 200-inch Hale telescope.
:: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, located in Chile. Our "sister club" is in nearby Antofagasta.

Finally, here are some other commercial and educational websites.

:: The Nine Planets, by Bill Arnett, a multimedia tour of the solar system. Also maintained by Bill Arnett are the The Messier Catalog and The Web Nebulae.
:: Optical Mechnics Inc. Providers of advanced-technology telescope and optics systems. Their systems are being used in a duplication of the Etscorn Campus Observatory.
:: The Albuquerque Astronomical Society.
:: International Dark Sky Association.

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