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The overlap between astro- and particle physics exemplified by the coining `astroparticle physics' means that the groupings below are somewhat arbitrary; the referee's decision is final!

• Astronomy and astrophysics databases and Observatories: cosmic ray, etc.
  (from WWW Virtual Library)
• Astronomy and Astrophysics sections of
• AstroScienceWeb (from Elsevier)
• AstroWeb
• British National Space Centre (BNSC)
• Cambridge Astronomy server
• Comets
• Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) resources (from MPA)
• Cosmology and Gravitation Group of the CPBF, Brazil
• ESA
• ENVISAT (ENVIronmental SATellite)
• Extragalactic Database (NASA/IPAC)
• The Faulkes Telescope Project (observing opportunities for UK schools)
• General Relativity, gravitational waves, etc.
• The Hubble Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility and anonymous ftp site (images, etc.)
• Kennedy Space Center and Frequently Asked Questions about Space
• Mars Pathfinder websites
• NASA; their Astrophysics Data System (ADS); and their Observatorium
• NEODyS (Near Earth Asteroids information) and The Spaceguard Foundation
• Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes
• Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
• Zoom Astronomy, from Enchanted Learning
• ADS Digital Library
• Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics (via ADS)
• sci.astro newsgroup
• sci.space.science newsgroup
• Planet Earth Home Page
• Planetary alignment 2002 - photo-animations assembled by Pete Lawrence
• SNAP - SuperNova Acceleration Probe
• Space Plasma Physics (from Southwest Research Institute)
• Stardust - NASA comet dust recovery mission
• The Universe Adventure (under development)
• University of Alabama Astronomy Department's picture collection (galaxies, clusters ...)
• Views of the Solar System (LANL)
• Welcome to the Planets (JPL)
• WWW Astronomy Resources (LANL)
• WWW Resource Guide: Cosmology

• Astroparticle & High Energy Physics group, Univ. Valencia
• Astroparticle Physics in ATLAS
• John Bahcall's Home Page (tables, slides, programs ...)
• Big Bang Science (from PPARC)
• Bricks of the Universe (from CERN)
• Cosmic ray, gamma ray, neutrino, etc. experiments (from MPIK)
• From Fundamental Particles to Galaxies and the Universe - PPARC-funded Outreach programme
• Max's Cosmic Cinema - animated CMB-cosmological parameters relationships from Max Tegmark  
• Neutrino Experiments (Dubna compilation - includes theory links)
• Neutrino oscillation industry
• Neutrino Unbound - "updated almost daily" (Carlo Giunti)
• Other neutrino oscillation experiments (from NOE)
• Other neutrino experiments (from SNO)
• Palo Verde (was San Onofre) neutrino oscillation experiment
• Transparencies from talk by T. Kajita ( SuperKamiokande collaboration) at Neutrinos 98 (from Ben Allanach).
• The ROPAC pages contain links to many of the experiments reported at Oxford and scanned transparencies from that meeting
• Science Policy documents,etc.
• The Official String Theory Web Site
• The Ultimate Neutrino Page from Juha Peltoniemi (University of Oulu, Finland)
• The University of Sheffield has a Particle Astrophysics `home page'

• Berkeley Lab On-line Photo Archive
• BriefBooks: Data Analysis (R. K. Bock & W. Krischner) and Particle Detector (R. K. Bock & A. Vasilescu)
• CERN Press Office: press releases and picture database
• European Particle Physics `Outreach' Group
• Experiments Online (list) and Experiments (search) (from SLAC-SPIRES)
• Fundamental particles ... chart and explanations from Particle Data Group
• HEPIC (High Energy Physics Information Center)
• HEP news
• Transparencies, etc., from HEP97 Conference in Jerusalem
• Interactions.org - a communication resource from the world's partcle physics laboratories
• IOP HEP and Future Prospects in HEP
• Is particle research useful? (from CERN)
• Learn About Particle Physics
• Life, the Universe and the Electron (from Science Museum and Institute of Physics)
• Nuclear data sources
• The Particle Adventure (from PDG)
• Particle physics section of
• Particle Physics - UK
• PDG Review of Particle Physics: [Summary Tables] [Reviews] [Particle Listings]
  [K. Hagiwara et al., Phys. Rev. D66 (2002) 010001]
• sci.physics.particle newsgroup
• Superstrings! (from John M. Pierre) - and its links
• UK Cache of ICHEP98 talks
• Web Lecture Archive from CERN
• Why do physicists want to study particles? (from CERN)

• AlphaGalileo: Internet Press centre for European science, engineering and technology
• Atomic, Molecular, & Plasma Physics (from Southwest Research Institute)
• Atomic Physics on the Internet (from Weizmann Institute of Science)
• Britain's rocky past (from BBC Education - requires Shockwave - download here)
• British Association for the Advancement of Science
• Café Scientifique
• Contemporary Physics Education Project
• European Physical Society's Europhysnet
• Forthcoming conferences, etc.
• HyperPhysics and HyperMath
• Institute of Physics (includes on-line journals)
• Megascience forum (of OECD)
• National Physical Societies and information sources (Europe)
• Nobel Foundation and Museum
• Nuclear data sources
• Our Dynamic Earth - virtual visit to exhibit at Edinburgh's William Younger Centre
• Pauli Archive (CERN)
• Periodic table and properties of elements:

  WebElements	Chemical Elements	Visual Elements
  Fast periodic table	LANL periodic table	Spectrum Laboratories
  and, winner of the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry:		The Wooden Periodic Table

• Physics section of
• Physics Animations (by Siltec Ltd)
• Physics News Graphics - archive of physics images from AIP
• Physics on the World-Wide Web (from Trinity College, Dublin)
• Physics 2000 (from University of Colorado, Boulder)
• PSIgate (Physical Sciences Information Gateway)
• The Researchers' Forum (developed by the UK Office of Science and Technology)
• The Science Museum, etc.
• A Science Odyssey, from PBS
• ScienceWorlds - search for "science centres" in UK
• sci.misc newsgroup
• sci.physics newsgroup
• Space and Education
• TIPTOP -The Internet Pilot to Physics
• The Integrator Mathematica engine
• WWW virtual library: physics
• Eric Weisstein's World of Science from Wolfram Resource Library

• and finally (and not exclusively relating to physics), the University of Wolverhampton `sensitive maps' of UK Universities, Colleges, and Research Sites; and Braintrack's links to universities world-wide.