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ANDROMEDA: Billions of Stars (Suns) form the Andromeda Galaxy
DEEP FIELD SOUTH: As far as man has seen. A collection of many Galxies (each Galaxy is a collection of billions of Stars/Suns)
THE GALAXTIC CENTER
MIRROR IMAGE OF SPACE PHOTO resulted in this
and this closeup
OUTER SPACE PHOTOS
NORMAL GALAXYS (U of Alabama)
http://www.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/
GALAXTIC CENTER (U of Alabama)
http://www.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/mw.gif
ASTRONUTS
NASA LINKS
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000899.jpg
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000888.jpg 
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000882.jpg
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000897.jpg
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000930.jpg
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-000933.jpg
ANDROMEDA GALAXY M32 (hard to view with WebTV)
http://www.arizonausa.com/sky/galaxies/m32.htm
ANDROMEDA GALAXY (hard to view with WebTV)
http://www.arizonausa.com/sky/galaxies/andromeda.htm
DEEP FIELD SOUTH (as far as we have ever seen, around 15 Billion Light Years (or 88.1 Trillion miles away, the edge of the visable universe). Note: a Galaxy is a collection of Billions of Stars (Suns) in one group, while Deep Field South is a Cluster of Galaxies, a collection of Galaxies
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/96/01/PRC9601a.gif
THE CLOSEST STAR
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/images/eit_19970914_0121_304.gif
UFO's
http://community.webtv.net/AstroAxis/UFO/
THIS PAGE
http://community.webtv.net/AstroAxis/NiteSky/
PLANETS & OUR MOON
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JPL PLANETARY PHOTOS:
JPL has changed the format. You may no longer URL link directly to JPL photos (aw, what a shame, you would think they would encourage interest in Space & JPL). However, you can go directly to http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/ and Download the photos your self (thats nice), in fact, they have improved the whole JPL Section (except that you can no longer URL directly to JPL photos, sorry, but "thats Progress"). I bet most of them at JPL feel the same as I do, its probably some spoil sport in an administrative position who could care less about space. MOST OF THE PHOTOS PREVIOUSLY BELOW, NOW GONE
http://www.seds.org/billa/pics/Luna2.jpg
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THE PLANETS
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(no photo) MERCURY
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VENUS- . . . . . . . . - - . . . . . - - - . . . - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - .
TELL ME THERE IS NO LIFE HERE
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/andy_lg.jpg
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MARSMARS
http://zeno.grc.nasa.gov/images/c97/c97_2500s/97_2554l.jpg
TELL ME THERE IS NO LIFE ON MARS
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JUPITER- . . . . . . . . - - . . . . . - - - . . . - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - .
SATURNSATURN
http://oposite.stsci.edu/ftp/pubinfo/jpeg/SatStorm.jpg
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U-RA-NUS UR ANUS from Voyaer 2 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00346.jpg
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NEPTUNE (my favorite)- . . . . . . . . - - . . . . . - - - . . . - - - - - . . - - - - - - - - .
(no photo) PLUTO
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PHOTOS OF EARTH as seen from Outer Space (AZ U)
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/pxearth.html
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BEST LINKS non-NASA
UA Astronomical Image Galleries
http://www.astr.ua.edu/choosepic.html
NITE SKY Home Page (hard to view with WebTV, slow)
http://www.arizonausa.com/sky/index.htm
http://www.arizonausa.com/
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Best of the Hubble Space Telescope - SEDS
http://www.seds.org/hst/hst.html
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Latest Hubble Observations
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Latest.html
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Hubble Space Telescope and Public Pictures
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pictures.html
http://www.stsci.edu/pubinfo/Pictures.html
http://www.stsci.edu/hst/
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National Geographic - Star Journey
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/stars/index.html
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Hubble
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/hubble.htm
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OTHER GOOD STUFF
http://www.spaceflightnow.com
I subscribe to spaceflightnow free e-mail news letters (formerly astronomynow)
http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html
http://www.nfra.nl/~mag/hdf/pretty.html
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/astronomy/
CNN - http://cnn.com/TECH/space/index.html
Express Tour of the Solar System
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/express.html
Gustav Holst: The Planets Suite
http://www.aquarianage.org/lore/holst.html
Hypothetical Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/hypo.html
MSNBC
www.msnbc.com/news/338343.asp
SPACE.COM Space Photo Gallery
http://www.space.com/imagegallery/gallery/index2.php3
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NASA other info
http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/universe.html
http://windows.arc.nasa.gov/
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AZ U
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/appendices.html
Planetary Picture List
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/picturelist.html
Introduction to The Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp/intro.html
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DO IT YOURSELF:
Get a CELSTRON 8" (width) "Cassegrain" TELESCOPE & sync motor (or get a larger one, dont get a small one; take a Jr College course in Astronomy Lab, the Lab course will help you learn how to use it right)
http://www.celestron.com/
or Contact a Astronomy Professor for other good suggestions of other cheaper brands of telescopes
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MEADE TELESCOPES
http://www.meade.com
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ORION
http://www.telescope.com/
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ASTRONOMY MAGAZINES
(for additional telescope brands)
http://www.astronomy.com select VENDORS
http://www.skyandtelescope.com
http://www.astronomynow.com
BETTER YET, CHECK THESE WEB SITES FIRST
http://www.scopereviews.com excellent for beginners
http://www.astro.umsystem.edu/atm/
http://www.efn.org/~mbartels/tm/tm.html
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What ever brand you get, get at least a 6 inch Field of View (the width of the lens, not the width of the housing. I see telescopes in the Discovery Store, which have a 4 inch width, but if you look close, the actual lens is only 2 inches, dont waste your time or money, 2 inch lens is only for viewing the Moon, and barely Jupiter.
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There are some brands which come as kits, with very wide Field of View, such as 16 or 24 inches (no actual lens, but large mirror at the bottom of a long tube, called a "Newtonian Reflector" style) which are less expensive (good way to go, excellent for viewing far away gallaxies, and the Orion Nebula), but THE BEST telescopes (more expensive) have MOTORS which follow the object being viewed (and can be hooked up to a computer program, I am not familiar with the softwares available).
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STAR PARTIES
Most Jr Colleges (2 years colleges, community colleges), who have Astronomy classes, have a STAR PARTY every sememster. If you are a Telescope user, you may inquire, and you might be granted permission to attend a Star Party. A Star Party consists of a group of Students and former Students with Telescopes who get together and stay up all night (till dawn) and view many of the items on this page and more, thru telescopes. Its much better than viewing them online. A Star Party is a big thrill. It is usually part of the curiculum of the ASTRONOMY LAB CLASS.
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TERMINOLOGY
SOLAR SYSTEM: one Sun (one Star) with planets around it
PLANETARY NEBULA: an older Star (Sun) which has rejected its outer shell resulting in Gas (some pictures of Galaxies show edges of gas at the outer portions, such as the Sombrero Galaxy)
GALAXY: a collection of Billions of Stars (Suns) in one group
CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES: a collection of Galaxies (see photo of Deep Field South, around 88,118,837,280,000 miles away (88 Trillion Miles away)
http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/Images/Astrobiology/jpegs/AC96-0069-1_a.jpeg
LIGHT YEAR: the distance which light will travel (186,282 statue miles per second) in one year (there are around 31,536,000 seconds per year, thus a light year is around 5,874,589,152,000 miles (nealy 5.9 Trillion miles).
UNIVERSE: all, everything (thought to be finite by some, but by mere definition of time and of space, the universe must be endless, what if you came to the end?, what would be on the other side of that?).
The "Steady State Theory" follows that both Time and Space are Infinite.
The "Big Bang Theory" says that the Universe started between 10 and 20 Billion years ago (however, since we can see "Deep Field South" which is 15 Billion light years away, then the Universe has to be well over 15 Billion years old, right? right), not just matter but all of space, time, and radiation, was concentrated into a hot superdense state (and where did that come from?) which exploded outward into the universe we know today.
My view is, perhaps the "Big Bang" may be true with the Known Universe, but by definition of Time and Space, they must be infinite.
I believe that the "Big Bang Theory" is an attempt by the Church to back up "Genesis", which is an attempt to keep people calm over the fact that we human beings are mortal, therefore the entire Universe is mortal? I don't think so.
SEE MY FULL EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THE "BIG BANG" IS BUNK, B.S., AND A BIG MISTAKE at.....
The BIG BANG is BUNK
-William Christopher Holley, 147 IQ