A good summary of observations and their impact on the geocentric and heliocentric models can be found at;
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/faculty/shildreth/astronomy/geoanswers.html.
There is also a good animation of the retrograde motion of Mars online at;
http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~zhu/ast210/both.html.
Students' suggestions for good diagrams to support classroom notes on stellar evolution can be found at the following locations;
http://www.universetoday.com/18847/life-of-the-sun/
http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/
(see the Interactive Guide to Stellar Evolution - available in both Flash and PDF versions)