Etchings on the Attic Wall

This web site is used to show images from the Hubble space telescope as part of the Hubble Heritage project.  The project’s goal is to help stimulate public interest in astronomy by showing the best that the Hubble has to offer.  They display monthly images along with supplemental stories and other educational information.

Here’s an interesting animation.  It goes through a slide show describing what will happen to Earth over the course of 7.1 billion years.  You can see how the continents, climate, and solar system will change.  Boggles the mind, doesn’t it?  Humans had better be relocated by about 3.5 billion years because Earth won’t be hospitable [...]

This is a very cool online planetarium!  There is a convenient map to click on your location to view what the sky looks like over your head right now.  As you mouse over stars, you are told what they are and if they are in a constellation, it lights up.   If you click anywhere on [...]

Here’s a fun online planetarium called Wikisky.  You basically can key in your location to see what the sky currently look like in your area.  As you move your mouse around the screen, pop-ups will appear telling you what astronomical body you landed on.  You can also click and drag your mouse pointer around on [...]

This is a web site maintained since 1995 by two professional astronomers, one of whom is a scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.  Each day, they post a new astronomy picture.  There is also a huge archive available for viewing.  The one above is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the moon landing.