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AAS Solar Physics Division [Greenbelt, Md] Members, organization, news, meetings, contacts. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/aas_spd/

Analemma Explains the phenomenon - the Sun's apparent path in the sky - including simple animations. http://www.analemma.com/

The Analemma Project An analemma photograph is featured with a detailed description of how it was created. http://www.steveirvine.com/analemma.html

Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network Who they are and what they do. Also includes background information, results, data. http://bison.ph.bham.ac.uk/

Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center Based at NASA/GSFC. Includes sections about the Sun, the cosmic rays and the history of its study. http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Current Solar Data Offers real time images and observations of the Sun from a variety of ground and space sources. http://www.n3kl.org/sun/

Current Solar Data An unofficial archive of NOAA solar data. http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

European Helio- and Asteroseismology Network The HELAS Network aims to support and coordinate the exchange of knowledge concerning the global properties of the Sun and stars. http://www.helas-eu.org/

Find My Shadow Calculates sun position and plots shadows cast by the sun over any chosen location, with drawing tools to construct your own scene and automatically plot the shadow results. http://www.findmyshadow.com

Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Offers documents and overview from a series of projects with focus on magnetosphere studies. http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html

Global Oscillation Network Group Features project overview and news of a group attempting to measure the oscillations of the Sun's interior. http://helios.tuc.noao.edu/

Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Extensive information about the group and the project, which aims to conduct a detailed study of solar internal structure and dynamics using helioseismology. http://gong.nso.edu/info/

How Stuff Works: Sun In-depth illustrated description of the Sun, its surface, atmosphere, sunspots, solar prominences and solar flares. http://www.howstuffworks.com/sun.htm

The Inconstant Sun From NASA Science News, experiment on board shuttle mission STS-107 is monitoring the Sun's variable brightness and its link to terrestrial climate change. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17jan_solcon.htm?list93257

The Michelson Doppler Imager Provides results and science of an experiment flown on the SOHO spacecraft to study solar oscillations. http://soi.stanford.edu/

NASA/Marshall Solar Physics The Solar Physics Branch of Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) is composed of 15 scientists involved in various studies of the physics of the Sun. http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/

The Nine Planets: Sun General information, some statistical data and links. http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html

Rotation of the Sun Electronic book with technical information about the sun and the solar system. http://sun22y51.narod.ru

Solar Images from SDAC Daily pictures from the SOHO and Yohkoh space platforms, the US National Solar Observatory, and the Mauna Loa Solar Observatory. http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/latest.html

Stanford Solar Center Presents a collection of educational activities based on Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) data. http://solar-center.stanford.edu/

Sun Position Calculator Calculates Sun azimuth and altitude for a given location and date. http://www.sunposition.info/sunposition/spc/locations.php

Views of the Solar System: Sun Pictures, animations, general information and data. http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm

The Virtual Sun Virtual tour of the sun which uses images, diagrams, and movies to illustrate subjects such as solar wind, solar flares, the solar surface and sunspots. http://www.michielb.nl/sun/kaft.htm

The Virtual Sun A virtual tour with basic information. Some movies also available. http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/

Windows to the Universe: Sun Overview including general information, data, pictures, news, historical and mythological background. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour.cgi?link=/sun/sun.html

YPOP Tour of the Sun Educational information about the Sun. http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/Spotlight/Tour/index.html