Bookmarks

Here are some useful resources that I have encountered in my life in academia so far. I have found most, if not all, of them through others, so full credit goes to them for discovering these.

• For students
  • GRE requirements and admission fees for US/Canadian Astronomy and Physics Programs
  • Information about the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP): the basics, some guidelines, and some examples of successful essays.
  • Astrobites: journal articles in a digestible format. You can also submit your own research!
  • AstroSites: contains a tutorial to build a website for yourself!
  • AstroBetter Talk Series for Early Career Astronomers: list of talk series that early-career astronomers can participate in for networking.
  • AstroTeaching: resources for teaching astrophysics.
• Visualizations
  • AstroAnimations
  • DSN Now
  • Exoplanet Travel Bureau
  • Gaia’s Stellar Family Portrait: explore the properties of over 1 billion stars in our Galaxy, and learn about how color-magnitude diagrams can be used to determine a star’s position in its life cycle.
  • NASA Eyes on Exoplanets
  • NASA free ebooks
  • NRAO’s Cosmic Coloring Compositor: utilize the entire electromagnetic spectrum to make an awesome image of your favorite galaxy.
  • NRAO’s Interferometry Explained: explore how the Very Large Array and ALMA gather data with their many antennae.
  • NRAO’s Milky Way Explorer: explore the Milky Way with NRAO astronomers.
  • NRAO Mission Control: see what the Very Large Array and ALMA are observing right now!
  • Our galactic neighborhood: a really beautiful interactive graphic for exploring some well-known local dwarf galaxies.
  • Quantum made simple: great visualizations of abstract quantum mechanics concepts and experiments.
• Reading
  • The Technology of Radio Astronomy
• Tools
  • Coblis (color blindness simulator): useful for checking if figures in your papers or talks are able to be easily understood by those with low or no color vision.
  • Implicit bias tests: learning about your own unconscious biases is the first step in changing them.
  • Propagation of uncertainties: I always always have to check this when propagating uncertainties.