LINKS
Science news
Astrobites: Read about some of the lates and most exciting papers and discoveries in the field of astrophysics - One paper is described per day, and the authors are astronomy graduate students. Check it out!
Videnskab.dk: Read about new exciting scientific discoveries (in Danish).
APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day... The name says it all.
Bad Astronomy, the great astronomy blog by Phil Pliat.
NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Here you can read the latest news from NASA.
Astronomisk Selskab (AS; "Astronomical Society") is a danish non-profic society for everyone with an interest in astronomy. AS yearly organise several public lectures, astronomy events, book releases, etc. Join today!
Kepler and K2 science center. Here you can learn about the Kepler and K2 missions, coming K2 observations, useful data analysis tools etc.
Data and literature search
ADS - The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System: The goto search engine for astrophysics literature.
Astrophysics data system, aka. "Bumblebee" is a beta version of a new version of the ADS, which allows you, among other things, to make full text searches. Worth a visit!
ArXiv is an open e-print service where many publications can be found before their official publication in a scientific journal.
ArXiver is a site which brings you the daily updates from arXiv, but with the addition of a figure from the individual papers.
Vox Charta is another platform to view the daily arXiv updates, but with the feature of a institution voting system - great for journal clubs.
MathSciNet is the place to go if you are looing for the proper citation to a paper in the field of mathematics or statistics that you cannot find on ADS.
ResearchGate is a place where you can follow the works of scientist and get postings whenter new research is out, view author statistics, ask questions, request papers, etc.
SIMBAD is an astronomical data base and typically the first place to go for a quick overview of what is know for a given astronomic object.
VizieR provides access to the most complete library of published astronomical catalogues and data tables available on line organized in a self-documented database
MAST - The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes is a NASA funded project to support and provide to the astronomical community a variety of astronomical data archives.
The Seismic+ Portal is an astero- and helioseismic Portal to promote the awareness and the use of existing seismic data within the stellar physics community and beyond.
Just for Fun
Tested: A fun page about tech and science with many entertaining pod casts from the Mythbusters Jamie and Adam.
XKCD your daily webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
PhD comics, "Piled Higher and Deeper" (PhD) by Jorge Cham is the comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia.
Astro Anecdotes (by Anders Overaa Thygesen) gives some of the untold stories and anecdotes from the world of astronomy. Very entertaning!
Lachend Wakker Worden ("Wake up laughing") is the personal english/dutch blog by my good friend and colleague Vincent van Eylen.
Learning and analysis tools
Stanford Online is a platform where you can follow online Stanford courses for free
Coursera is a platform where you can follow a large variety of different courses online, some are free, some charge a small fee.
AstroBetter is a page with "Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers".
COMS - Calendar of upcoming scientific conferences is a very useful site for keeping track of upcoming conferences.
Scikit-learn is a essential site for those of us who program in Python and use methods from Machine Learning for scientific analysis.
Scikit-image, the image processing analog of scikit-learn
Spice up your boring power point presentations with Prezi.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
Astronomy Cast takes a fact-based journey through the cosmos as it offers listeners weekly discussions on astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology.
Groups, collaborations, and instruments
SAC - Stellar Astrophysics Centre @ Aarhus University, Denmark conducts research on the Sun, stars and extra-solar planets.
HiROS - High-Resolution Optical Spectroscopy is the Solar and Stellar Physics Group @ Birmingham University.
SONG - Stellar Observations Network Group is a Danish-led project dedicated to the design and construction of a global network of small telescopes for the study of stars and planetary systems around stars.
SAGA - the Strömgren survey for Asteroseismology and Galactic Archaeology
