Space: The Final Frontier

"It’s only impossible until it’s possible."
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

           Tour the Solar System

Tour the Universe

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Table of Contents:
An Overview of The Solar System
ASTRONOMY CLASS
Spacecraft and Missions
Bijou Science Home
Galaxy Zoo - Sign on to classify galaxies for NASA!
NASA Mssions
Current Missions
Future Missions
Outside Astronomy Links
Societies/Publications

In Memory of Those
Who Lost Their Lives
Venturing Out
to the Final Frontier...

 1/27/67 -Apollo 1

1/28/86 -STS51L
Lost 73 seconds after liftoff.

 

2/2/03 -STS107
Lost during reentry

 

The Latest News 

SpaceWeather.com - Up-to-date Info on today's sky!

Satellite Tracker - What's over YOUR head tonight??

Colorado Springs Clear Sky Clock

Space.com

Skylights: What's up in the sky this week

The Planetary Society, especially updates for Saturn & Mars missions.

Hubble Telescope NEWSCENTER

"Sky & Telescope" News

NASA News

The Night Sky Live

Outside Astronomy Links & Resources

Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook

US Naval Observatory

From the editors of Astronomy Magazine:
A GLOSSARY OF ASTRONOMICAL TERMS

Abrams Planetarium Skywatcher's Diary for this month

What's Up

Home Planet by John Walker is a FREE star chart for your computer, and more.
Go there for download instructions.  It takes up very little space and is
very useful.

Skychart III, from Southern Stars Systems, is a good and inexpensive Star Chart for your computer.  They have a free trial download, too.

Sites with Images

The Constellations and Their Stars

Hubble Space Telescope Pictures

High-Def Mars Images

Anglo-Australian Observatory

THE MESSIER CATALOG 

The Web Nebulae
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory  

Societies and Publications

Astronomy Magazine          csaslogo.gif (92086 bytes)

             

Other Downloads:

Celestia - a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions - limited, but cool.

Some interesting animated pictures...
bulletAn animated Moebius strip with orbiting sphere.
bulletAn interactive Java Moebius strip.
bulletAn animated Wormhole
bulletAn Alien Sunrise experimental Flash

 

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