Here I’ve collated useful links that may come in handy.
Finding papers:
- NASA Astronomical Data System - a search engine for finding papers
- arxiv - open access repository for the latest astronomy papers, beware - some of these mightn’t have been refereed yet!
- Dawes reviews - a series of papers reviewing topical areas of astronomy comissioned by the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Galaxies:
- Emission line list - what’s that line? it’s one of these.
- Cosmology calculator - get information for objects based on redshift and chosen cosmology
- Nasa Extragalactic Database - everything you need to know about an object.
- Staralt - object visibility plotter
Python: