Web Links

Websites and online articles about SETI

• Sky & Telescope magazine’s SETI page
• SETI (Wikipedia)
• SETI@home (Wikipedia)

Sky maps and celestial information

• SkyView—The Internet’s Virtual Telescope
• The STScI Digitized Sky Survey
• Distant Suns - Desktop astronomy software

Education

• The Exploratorium’s Origins web site.
• Listen to sounds from space at spacesounds.com.
• Take a simulated journey from deep space into micro space with this powers of ten demo.
• TERC’s Astrobiology curriculum project
• ThinkQuest’s Astrobiology: The Living Universe
• Astrobiology curriculum materials from Montana State (*draft*)
• The Astrobiology Web
• UCLA Astrobiology Society
• A Powerpoint presentation about SETI@home from the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing (Australia).
• Also at the Swinburne Centre, a Swinburne Astronomy Online Short Course.
• Life in the Universe A part time distance learning course
• Alien Bandstand - A interactive web game where you analyze a signal from space.

Books about SETI

• Browse our SETI@home bookstore.
• Children of the Stars, Daniel Altschuler, Cambridge University Press, London.
• Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations. By Brian McConnell. O’Reilly and Associates, March 2001.
• Are We Alone In the Universe? Ben Bova and Byron Preiss, editors, 1999
• Sharing the Universe : Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life Seth Shostak, 1998
• Is Anybody Out There?, Frank Drake and Dava Sobel, 1992
• Donald Goldsmith and Tobias Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe 1980, new version due out this year

Other SETI projects

• The SERENDIP Project at U.C. Berkeley.
• Optical SETI Project at U.C. Berkeley.
• The SETI Institute
• The BETA Project at Harvard University (the Billion-Channel Extraterrestrial Assay).
• Southern SERENDIP at Western Sydney University, Macarthur
• Planet Search Project at San Francisco State University
• Harvard/Smithsonian Optical SETI Project at Harvard University and Oak Ridge Observatory.
• The Columbus Optical SETI Project at Bexley, Ohio.
• SETI Projects supported by The Planetary Society  including: BETA, META II, SERENDIP IV, and Optical SETI.
• SETI Australia Centre at Western Sydney University, Macarthur
• The SETI League organization promoting private search on SETI around the world.

Radio telescopes

• Arecibo Observatory at National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico. This is the data source for SETI@home.
• Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn.
• Square Kilometer Array Interferometer at the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy.
• Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester

Astronomy information

• Sidewalk Astronomers Club

Games and simulations

• Listen to sounds from space at spacesounds.com.
• Take a simulated journey from deep space into micro space with this powers of ten demo.
• Online SETI Game
• Area 52 Fun and Games

International space research organizations

• Denmark : DSRI Danish Space Research Institute
• France : CERT Centre d'Étude et de Recherches de Toulouse
• Japan : ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
• Netherlands : SRON Space Research Organization Netherlands
• Russia : IKI Space Research Institute
• Sweden : SSC Swedish Space Corporation

Government space agencies

• Argentina : CONAE Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
• Austria : ASA Austrian Space Agency
• Brazil : INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
• Brazil : AEB Agencia Espacial Brasileira
• Canada : CSA Canadian Space Agency
• Europe : ESA European Space Agency
• France : CNES Centre National d'Études Spatiales
• Germany : DLR Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft- und Raumfahrt
• India: ISRO Indian Space Research Organisation
• Italy : ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• Japan : NASDA National Space Development Agency
• Norway : NSC Norwegian Space Centre
• Russia : RKA Russian Space Agency
• United Kingdom : BNSC British National Space Centre
• United States of America : NASA National Aeronautics & Space Administration