Glimpses Of The Universe

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The Universe has always held a fascination for me. Even though I do not pretend to know much of Quantum Mechanics or particle physics, I began looking towards the night sky at a fairly young age and started asking questions. The sheer mystery of the universe set a course for the way I view life. Meaning, seeking knowledge, any knowledge is a life growing experience.

Mike Mehl's Page A Geocities neighbor with a very good Science Topics page.

Maggie's Home Page Visit a beautiful site on our earth, Malaysian's tropical islands and beaches.

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Looking for a great link on Astronomy Education? Softseek's Astronomy Page has great screen savers and many excellent learning tools to explore. It is updated often and is very easy to navigate within the site. The shareware is explained very well too, so you know exactly what your getting when you download a program. If your interested in our Universe this is a must see site.

Looking for a great place to start exploring our universe? The NASA Home Page is a great place to start your journey. If you have a little more time and would like to see a site that is a bit more technical, Take a Tour of Our Universe. This link will take you just about anywhere in space.

Windows to the Universe. This best link site is presented by the University of Michigan. I found it to be well put together. It has good graphics and concise links to access a lot of information quickly. And, of course, in the Glimpses tradition, it contains great pictures within these sites.
Hubble Space Telescope Image Gallery . Now that the Hubble telescope has been fixed the new shots it has taken are spectacular and increasing our knowledge of the universe at a much faster rate.
Extra Solar Planets are in the thoughts of many astronomers. With the discovery of these bodies (really not confirmed as planets), it is one more step for science in finding life (conclusive proof) somewhere in our universe.

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Hubble Space Telescope has provided strong evidence for the existence of a roughly Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star BetaPictoris. Detailed Hubble images of the inner region of the 200-billion mile diameter dust disk encircling the star reveal an unexpected warp. Researchers say the warp can be best explained as caused by the gravitational pull of an unseen planet.

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This animation was produced by Walt Feimer in the Astronomy Visualization Laboratory.
It begins with a ``backyard '' view of the sky around the constellation Orion (by Skip Westphal, ST ScI) and a more detailed view of the Orion Nebula, also known as M42 and NGC 1976, taken with the 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak.

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Probing the mysterious heart of the Crab Nebula, the tattered remains of a stellar cataclysm witnessed more than 900 years ago, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found that the Crab is even more dynamic than previously understood, based on a cosmic "movie" assembled from a series of Hubble observations.

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