Subject pages attached to craig:topic/science/astronomy

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1.	SpaceRef Space reference site including, space news items, coverage of current space missions and links to other space related reference sites. URL: http://www.spaceref.com/
2.	Stanford Stars [Weather Underground] Start charts for Stanford University Aread space news items, coverage of current space missions and links to other space related reference sites. URL: http://www.wunderground.com/sky/ShowSky.asp?TheLat=37.421261&TheLon=-122.163948&TimeZone=8&TimeZoneCode=1
3.	Hubble Heritage Browse through a dazzling collection of extraterrestrial images at this Hubble Heritage site. You'll find a gallery of diverse photos and some "favorite picks." URL: http://heritage.stsci.edu/index.html
4.	Hubble Reopens Eye on the Universe [Magnifying Glass] This site offers images and explanatory text related to the "Eskimo" Nebula, "the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star." The nebula is called the "Eskimo" because, when viewed from a ground-based telescope, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. This parka is actually "a disk of material embellished with a ring of comet-shaped objects, with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star." URL: http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/2000/07
5.	First Images From Terra using its five onboard instruments to monitor Earth's climate changes on a long-term basis. The striking and often downright neat images, movies, and animations are presented in a variety of formats: .jpeg, .tiff, QuickTime, and .mpeg. URL: http://terra.nasa.gov
6.	Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Image Gallery 20,000 images from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). URL: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery
7.	Cycle 1 Chandra Science Images A collection of amazing images from the Chandra orbiting X-ray observatory that were recently unveiled at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Highlights include a crossbow-shaped shock wave of warped gas, a jet that emanates from the center of the galaxy and extends across 360 thousand light years toward a brilliant hot spot, and a hot bubble of matter surrounding a dying star. URL: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/cycle1.html
8.	Visible Earth - NASA NASA's Visible Earth site is a solid and easy-to-use collection of images and animations of our planet. At present, the database holds 1,610 records and may be searched by keyword or advanced search options or browsed by category and topic. URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
9.	Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has created a digital version of the Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, published in 1971 and considered "the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of the Moon." The site includes all 675 plates contained in the original work, digitally enhanced to increase photo quality. URL: http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter
10.	Astronomers Detect Ancient Cosmic Renaissance Just as it did in human history, the light-filled renaissance of the early universe followed a time of darkness and murk that cosmologists call the dark ages, researcher George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology says. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010808/sc/space_renaissance_dc_1.html
11.	Jupiter's Moon Callisto URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/callisto/
12.	Best Glimpse Yet of Milky Way's Monster Black Hole [NASA article] Astronomers say they have pinpointed a tiny area at the Milky Way's heart where a black hole with the mass of 2.6 million Suns is likely to lurk. URL: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010905/sc/space_hole_dc_2.html
13.	Astronomy Picture of the Day A new picture each day. URL: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
14.	Comets & Meteor Showers List of currently visible meteor showers and other information. URL: http://comets.amsmeteors.org/
15.	Martini Bar Galaxy Martini Bar Galaxy picture taken by the Hubble telescope. Also includes a 4' x 8' resolution picture. URL: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/01/
16.	Spitzer Space Telescope Images Infrared space telescope. URL: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/data.shtml

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Historical Supernovae observed in the Milky Way If they are not too heavily obscurred by interstellar matter, they can be seen as very spectacular events in the sky. Unfortunately, though, none of them has been well visible since the invention of the telescope, although modern estimates predict that every few decades one supernova should occur in a galaxy like the Milky Way. URL: http://www.seds.org/messier/more/mw_sn.html