HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
The Hubble is owned by NASA and operated
by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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
Since the 1990's, astronomers have discovered over 200 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. Half of these planets have been discovered in our own galaxy by the Hubble Space Telescope, suggesting that most normal stars have planets circling them.
Use YOUR Computer To Search For Intelligent Life On Other Planets
