Astronomy Links

NEWS - October 11, 2000 - submitted by Eve Katuna

This image of Jupiter was taken by the Cassini Imaging Science narrow angle camera through the blue filter (centered at 445 nanometers) on October 1, 2000, 15:26 UTC at a distance of 84.1 million km from Jupiter. The smallest features that can be seen are 500 kilometers across.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/PIAGenCatalogPage.pl?PIA02666

color picture

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001011.html

NEW - July 21, 1999 - Inspired by Eve Katuna

See the complete colorful history of NASA's mission to explore our solar system and beyond on this new page of links to the planets and the probes

Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use based on astronomy and written by the Space Telescope Science Institute which operates the Hubble telescope. is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use based on astronomy and written by the Space Telescope Science Institute which operates the Hubble telescope.

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

PS - They are looking for a middle school or high school classroom teacher to serve as an intern. You must have five years teaching and experience in Internet use, curriculum development and giving workshops. Hurry, the deadline is March 19.

http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/educators/internflyer.html

Submitted by Eve Katuna 10/22/98 revised 5/24/2000

Hubble Heritage Project - A new gallery of Hubble Space Telescope which includes images not previously released. The best part is that a new image will be added on the first Thursday of each month.

http://heritage.stsci.edu

Hubble Space Telescope Public Pictures - The complete archive of all space telescope images that have been released to the public organized by year and subject matter.

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html

Submitted by Eve Katuna 6/3/98

LIVE ASTRONOMY FROM MOUNT WILSON TO THE CLASSROOM

The Telescopes in Education (TIE) program brings the opportunity to use a remotely controlled telescope and charge-coupled device (CCD) camera in a real-time, hands-on, interactive environment to students around the world.

http://tie.jpl.nasa.gov/

Designed for elementary students, this site offers two levels. Just the thing to get our youngest astronomers off to a good start enjoying the wonders of the sky.

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/

Submitted by Eve Katuna 5/14/98

Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and videos.

http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/eng/homepage.htm

Start out each day with a dynamite picture from the Hubble, Galileo, the Keck and even once a CAN DO Shot of Comet Halley (Now you know they have good taste). Each days image comes with notes written by top astronomers.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Submitted by Eve Katuna 4/21/98

http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/

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THE THOUSAND-YARD MODEL or, The Earth as a Peppercorn

This is a classic exercise for visualizing just how BIG our Solar System really is. Both the relative size and spacing of the planets are demonstrated in this outdoor exercise, using a mere peppercorn to represent the size of the Earth.

http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

Links checked 2/24/2000