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The Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources - The StarPages


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StarWorlds
(organizations, institutions, associations, companies, and so on: about 6,500 entries from more than 100 countries with all practical details available and more than 6,500 hot links).
The database StarWorlds is associated to the directory (on paper) of organizations StarGuides. Note that, since 2001, StarGuides are published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

StarHeads
(personal WWW pages of individuals: about 6,000 entries)

StarBits
(abbreviations, acronyms, contractions, symbols, and so on: about 200,000 entries).
The database StarBits is associated to the dictionary (on paper) of abbreviations, acronyms, contractions and symbols StarBriefs. Note that, since 2001, StarBriefs are published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Outstanding features

Registration form

List of National Telephone, Telefax and Telex Codes

Generalities - Introduction to the Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources

The Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources is a growing collection of directories, dictionaries, databases and related products on astronomy, space sciences, as well as related fields, organizations and people.

The `StarPages' cover more specifically the members of the Star*s Family accessible on the WWW.

The Star*s Family resources offer outstanding features such as a twenty-year tradition/experience in compilations, a resulting excellent exhaustivity of entries (including thousands of entries without WWW link), an homegeneous coverage of all practical data, a permanent updating and quality checking scheme (including authentication of data originators), the largest amount of URLs available in a set of astronomy resources, a unique astronomy-oriented dictionary of acronyms and abbreviations, and so on.

Star*s Family & StarPages General Working Scheme (27 kB PostScript file)

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