Meteor showers are cyclical, predictable events because they are formed from the icy rock debris shed by comets as they pass the Sun.
From the print magazine Astronomy, comes this excellent one-page introduction to meteors and meteor showers.
In recognition of his extensive comet research, Gary Kronk has been honored by the International Astronomical Union with a minor planet named after him.
With an image gallery, a video library, an article archive, and a meteor shower pronunciation guide with audio clips, Space.com is chock full of yummy meteor goodness.
The most popular meteor question online is, "When is the next meteor shower?" StarDate Online answers this question with a calendar of seven annual meteor showers...
These illustrated class notes from the introductory astronomy class University of Texas at Knoxville are a great resource.
Astronomy in India, lectures and shows organised at Nehru Planetarium
Adaptive optics is a technique that allows ground-based telescopes to remove the blurring affects caused by Earth's atmosphere.
Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.
This web page is designed to give everyone an idea of what our universe actually looks like.
Popular Astronomy/Cosmology Links, from Caltech
On October 4, 1957, at the height of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, the Soviets launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, into orbit around the Earth.
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