NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Jim Kaler:
Skylights
Stars of the Week
Spectra
Celestial Sphere
Google:
Google Earth
Google Sky
Google Moon
Google Mars
Culture:
Galaxy Song (Eric Idle) (political content not endorsed)
Galaxy Song (Eric Idle) (w/ lyrics but poor video)
Galaxy Song (Eric Idle) (an old version)
Concepts of Billion and Trillion (NPR Planet Money: Chana Joffe-Walt & David Kestenbaum)
Prefixes for Powers of Ten
Historical Time Line
Days of the week (Wikipedia)
Definition of Planet (Wikipedia)
Starry Night (Vincent Van Gogh)
Antikythera article in Nature
Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash)
Simulations:
Powers of 10
Lunar Phases [blocked],
Retrograde Motion [blocked],
Kepler's Laws [blocked]
Fusion in the Sun [blocked],
1 over R squared [blocked],
HR diagram simulator [blocked],
Eclipsing Binary [blocked],
Proper Motion [blocked],
Parallax [blocked],
Doppler Effect [blocked],
Blackbody Radiation [blocked]
Eclipses:
NASA's Eclipse page
Lunar Eclipses
Total Lunar Eclipse of December 21, 2010
Total Solar Eclipse of July 22, 2009
Annular Solar Eclipse of May 10, 1994
Earth:
Light Pollution
Indonesian tsunami of 2004
Mt. St. Helens
18 s eruption video!!
USGS narrative of eruption (7:30)
Return of Life to Mt. St. Helens
Interactive current earthquake map (select & hit refresh)
USGS archives(use to look up:
2/9/1971 San Fernando (Sylmar) earthquake 6:00AM, 6.6m, 65 deaths
10/17/1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, 7.0m, 67 deaths, 1989 World series
1/17/1994 Northridge earthquake, 6.7m, 57 deaths)
Life (DNA) (interactive)
build an amino acid (interactive)
Moon:
NASA's Moon page
NASA Apollo 11 Video Library
NASA Apollo 15 Video Library; throwing demo
NASA Apollo 16 Video Library; Young speeds in rover
NASA Apollo 17 Video Library; drops sack; play soccer
Mercury:
NASA's Mercury page
MESSENGER Mission
Venus:
NASA's Venus page
Venus/Jupiter double occultation
Mars:
NASA's Mars page
Sojourner approaching Yogi or rolling over a rock
Mars Global Surveyer Image Gallery
MGS approach movie
changing south polar cap
Valles Marineris simulated flyby(15,61,416MB)
Opportunity traverse map index
Spirit traverse map index
Jupiter:
NASA's Jupiter page
Saturn:
NASA's Saturn page
Cassini Mission:
...Cassini tour dates
...Cassini photojournal
Many of the images are moderate resolution jpeg files. For higher resolution versions,
replace "jpegMod" by "jpeg" & remove "_modest" from the URL.
For caption and other options,
if any, replace "jpegMod" by "catalog"
& remove "_modest.jpg" from the URL.
. . .Cassini mission 3D
......launch movie (MPEG)
......Titan Virtual tour(Flash, with interactive 3D globe)
......Phoebe & Argonauts, but Pheobe was a Titan, daughter of Uranus!
Uranus:
NASA's Uranus page
Neptune:
NASA's Neptune page
Pluto:
NASA's Pluto page
Planets, Asteroids, and Comets:
Extrasolar planets,
Peekskill meteorite fireball
Sun:
Why Does the Sun Shine? "The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas" (They Might Be Giants: 13:55-16:17)
The Sun is a Mass ... (They Might Be Giants)
(lyrics)
Latest multi-wavelength image set (Solar Data Analysis Center)
Archive picture with spots (white light image 3/28/01 BBSO)
Archive picture without spots (white light image 2/26/01 BBSO)
Movie of eruptive prominence
Constellations:
Capricornus as stick figure or
patch of sky
Aquarius as stick figure or
patch of sky
Bootes as stick figure or
patch of sky
Constellation tour (Fremont High School, Michigan)
Constellation tour (SEDS)
Big Dipper (Ursa Major)
Other:
The CIA: regarding UFO's
Weather satellite data:
Eastern US GOES 8 WV
nist.time.gov
leap seconds
Analemma
Arecibo
more
more
more
GBT
JCMT
Allen Telescope Array
VLA
