Stars are self-luminous gaseous spheroidal celestial bodies of great mass which produce energy by means of nuclear fusion. Listed sites may include sky maps and constellations, types of stars including giants and dwarfs, and related subjects such as pulsars and quasars.
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- The Formation of Binary Stars Highly-detailed but brief paper concerning the Classical Fission Hypothesis.
- Astronomy 162: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology Entire Astrophysics course online. Very extensive introduction course to stars.
- How Stuff Works: Stars Illustrated tutorial about stars, their properties, formation, and death. Includes related links.
- Stars and Galaxies Behavior of stars, generation of energy, their origin, and life cycle. Also includes a wide range of interesting pictures of galaxies and related phenomena that can be observed in the universe through telescopes.
- Star Data Pages Provides detailed information about stars: positions, proper motion, radial velocity, magnitudes, spectral class, color index, catalogue references, data about multiple star systems (i.e. orbital elements), and data about variability (min./max. brightness, period, type of variability).
- Astrometry Department, U.S Naval Observatory The primary purpose of this website is to distribute information related to the positions and motions of the stars and planets, mainly to the Defense community.
- The Constellations since 1996 Binocular and naked eye guide to the constellations, a data table, and mythology.
- Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Deepsky Atlas A listing of the Hawaiian Astronomical Society Deepsky Atlas by constellation.
- Star Journey @ nationalgeographic.com Star Journey. Journey through the stars with National Geographic Online. View the nighttime sky with popular National Geographic Star Chart...
- Bright Star Catalogue Find data (cross references, positions, proper motions, spectral classes, magnitudes ...) on all stars visible to the naked eye from the BSC, SKY2000, SAO, WDS and GCVS. Stars can be searched by their proper names, Bayer designations, Flamsteed, HR, HD, SAO or FK5 numbers.
- Laser Star Astrophysics Plasma recombination lasers in rapidly cooled stellar atmospheres.
- Space Telescope Science Institute A small Hubble telescope image gallery of Quasars.
- Spectra and Spectra Analysis A brief overview of what stellar spectra are and how they are used to classify stars.
- Dark Stars, Black Holes, Bright Galaxies One huge page packed with illustrations, diagrams and photographs portraying some interesting aspects of stars, black holes and galaxies.
- Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors Discussion will focus on the nonlinear interactions between turbulent convection, rotation and magnetic fields in the interiors of stars. From 6 September - 17 December, 2004 at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. Includes list of workshops and list of participants.
- Stargazing - A Handbook for Night Sky Tour Guides A guide to give a tour of the summer night sky.
- Measuring the Stars Article providing information on how to derive properties of stars, based on observation.
- Scientific American Explorations: A Parade of New Planets Sightings of extrasolar planets are increasing.