Resources
Computation and Programming
Lessons, tutorials, and textbooks
- Jupyter Notebook Beginner's Guide
- Software Carpentry
- Learn Python The Hard Way
- Effective Computation in Physics
Software, downloads, environments, etc
Scientific Writing
- Overleaf LaTeX Tutorials
- The Science of Scientific Writing (American Scientist)
- LaTeX templates for academic journals
- How to Keep a Lab Notebook (Science Magazine)
Astronomy
Astronomy Data Archives
- MAST Archive (includes Hubble, TESS data)
- Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data (mm, cm, survey data and products)
- VizieR (can search many catalogs)
- ESO Online Digitized Sky Survey
- ESO Science Archive
- SDSS Data Release 15
- WISeREP (interactive supernova database)
- HEASARC (high energy astrophysics)
- Sky Server (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) (multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey)
- Spitzer Data Archive (mid-IR)
- NRAO Telescope Data Archives (radio, mm)
- Herschel Data Archive (IR, far-IR, sub-mm)
- Chandra Data Archive (X-ray)
- Astrobetter list of astronomical databases
- Space Telescope: List of datasets for education and for fun
- SkyView (Internet Virtual Telescope)
- Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
- Database of Observational Mishaps
- Galaxy Zoo
- Breakthrough Listen Open Data Archive
Lessons, tutorials, and textbooks
- Lightkurve (Python package for analyzing Kepler, TESS data)
- The Fourier Transform
- An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform
- Downloading Hubble Data
- Essential Radio Astronomy (NRAO online course)
- Practical Python for Astronomers
- Space Telescope's Scientific Python Workshop
- Astrobetter list of Resources for Astronomy Computing Education
- Sample NOAO Observing Proposal
- CCD Image Processing
- Retouching of astronomical data
- Practical Statistics for Astronomers
White Papers
Undergraduate Advising
- APS Resources for Undergraduate Students
- Summer internships in Astronomy
- Grad School Shopper
- Physics GRE Requirements for US/Canadian Physics and Astronomy Programs
