HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The Hubble is owned by NASA and operated
by the Space Telescope Science Institute
in Baltimore, Maryland.
Hubble Telescope Pictures
See a live image of the Sun from the SOHO
(Solar & Heliospheric Observatory) satellite
here.
LIVE MOON PHASE
Updates Every Four Hours
See a live
image of the Earth from a Satellite
In the approximately 12-14 billion
years since our Universe began, there have been only two or three
generations of stars born, yet their numbers boggle the mind. Each new
star's energy helps to form a ring of water around it, which becomes a
cloud of frozen ice and rock balls we call comets. When a planet passes
through the tail of a comet, pieces of it are captured by and rain down
on the world, and we call them meteors. These are usually very small
particles that mostly burn up in atmosphere or cause little impact on
the planet's surface. Our Earth experiences three annual meteor showers
from comets each year: the Perseids (@ August 12th), the Leonids (@
November 17th) and the Geminids (@ December 14th). Other meteors are
from the asteroids around a star, and these can be very large and
devastating to life on the planet they strike.
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking
David Farley
"Today's asteroid encounter was a near miss, but some
scientist warn that an actual impact could have serious
long-term effects on life on earth as we now know it."
Global Earthquake Report
Volcano World
In the past six years, astronomers have
discovered 130 new planets outside the solar system, including 18
mystery planets in the Orion Nebula which are not circling stars -- in
violation of current planet formation theory. By the year 2005,
scientists expect to be able to finally detect other earth-like planets
with the launch of the Kepler Mission.
Use YOUR Computer To Search For Intelligent Life On Other Planets