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This is a List of Astronomy Outreach Resources in Europe originally started as an initiative within the framework of the Astronet EU FP7 project.


== Scientific Institutions, Observatories, and National Scientific Societies ==


=== Scientific institutions and Observatories ===
List of astronomical observatories (not only outreach)
IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
ESO Science Outreach Network (ESON)
European Space Agency (ESA)
CERN outreach Archived 2009-08-03 at the Wayback Machine
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC, Spain)
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC, Spain)
Spanish National Observatory
Centre of AstroBiology (CAB-CSIC, Spain)
University of La Rioja (Spain)
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (Ireland)
Queen Mary Astronomical Observatory (UK)
University of Oxford Dept of Physics (UK)
Nottingham Trend University Observatory (UK)
University of Glasgow A&A group (UK)
Observatoire de Paris
Observatoire de Bordeaux
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
GLObal Robotic-telescopes Intelligent Array (GLORIA Project)
EU-HOU network of demonstration radio telescopes
Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)
Educational resources of INAF (work in progress)
Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari (Italy)
Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden)


=== National Astronomical Societies ===
List of astronomical societies
AstroWeb
Sociedad Española de Astronomía (SEA)
Royal Astronomical Society (UK)
Swedish Astronomical Society (Sweden)


== Science Museums and Planetaria ==
International Planetarium Society
Haus der Astronomie Heidelberg
CosmoCaixa Barcelona (Spain)
The Observatory (Greenwich) Science Centre (UK)
The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre (UK)
NUI Galway Centre for Astronomy (UK)
University of Cambridge Centre for Astronomy (UK)
Herschel Museum of Astronomy (UK)
National Museums Scotland (UK)
Deutsches Museum (Germany)
Cité de l’Espace Toulouse
Tycho Brahe Planetarium (Denmark)


== Projects ==
Hands on Universe (EU-HoU)
EU Universe Awareness (UNAWE)
Europlanet
EuroVO AIDA project
Creative Space (UK)


== Amateur astronomy groups ==
List of Amateur astronomy groups in Europe
AstroWeb (2007)
List of Amateur astronomy groups in Spain


== Magazines, publications, and resources on the web ==


=== Publications ===
The ESO Messenger
Revista AstronomíA (Spain)
Astronomy Now (UK)
Astronomie Magazine (France)
Populär Astronomi (Sweden)
TUIMP "The Universe In My Pocket", free astronomy booklets in many languages


=== Blogs, social networks, and resources on the web ===

Space and Astronomy websites
UNAWE Space Scoop
Henrietta Leawitt (videos, Spanish)
SpaceWeather
Blogs in Spanish
Radioastronomy from Home
Beginners Guide to Astronomy


=== Campaigns ===
Globe at night


== Commercial companies, astronomical lodging, star parties ==
Astronomy events calendar
Turismo estelar (Spain)
European AstroFest 2015 (UK)
EducaCiencia.es (Spain)


== Other resources ==
IAU network of contact points for outreach
IAU directory
IAU “Why is Astronomy important?”
Astronomy resources in Europe
Map of astronomical resources in project Radionet FP7


== References ==