Astronomical Links - AY3, The Solar System

Slide Show

• Hubble Space Telescope images
  • Galaxies
    • The Hubble Deep Field. Caption.
    • M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. By the way, here's how much better HST is than a ground-based telescope!
    • a Gravitational Lens. Caption.
    • M100. Caption.
    • the Cartwheel Galaxy, a colliding galaxy pair. Caption.
  • Star Birth
    • M16, the Eagle Nebula. Caption.
    • Starbirth in M33. Caption.
    • Protostellar jets. Caption.
    • M42, the Orion Nebula. Caption.
  • Star Death
    • Eta Carina, a self-destructing, supermassive star. Caption.
    • Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant. Caption.
    • NGC 6543, a Planetary Nebula. Caption.
  • Planets
    • Jupiter's largest moons. Caption.
    • our planetary neighbor, Mars. Caption.
    • Portrait of Jupiter. Note that the Great Red Spot is looking decidedly yellow these days!

Helpful Movies

• Comet Hyakutake Animation, showing the comet drifting past the background stars, as the planets do.
• Comet Hyakutake Another animation. In this one, the camera does not track the comet. Thus, its motion relative to the stars is not easy to see. Note the passing clouds to get an idea of how fast the animation is. Quick quiz: Assuming the animation is not running backward, which direction was the camera facing when the movie was taken?
• Solar EclipseAnimation of a total solar eclipse
• Solar EclipseAnimation of an annular solar eclipse
• Solar Eclipse A view of the Moon's shadow on the Earth as seen by a geosynchronous satellite (GOES 7)

Cool links

• Nine Planets Multimedia Solar System Tour TONS of pictures and information!!
• NASA's Observatorium
• The spot a young moon challenge
• Ask an Astronomer
• Lick Observatory
• The Messier Catalogue
• Galaxy Morphology Lab
• Comet Hyakatuke
• All About Tides
• Comet SL9 impact images (Shoemaker Levy-9 smashed into Jupiter in July of 1994)