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[MuseAphelion]

I've finally gotten around to post and it's a big one folks! A slew of astronomical links for you to check out and enjoy.

antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html - Astronomy Picture of the Day Fantastic pictures posted daily with an archive to see what you've missed.

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ SETI @ Home The world's largest collaborative computing project. Help SETI search for intelligent life by contributing your computers unused time. A free download with a screen saver showing the program at work.

www.fourmilab.ch/homeplanet/homeplanet.html Homeplanet A free download that shows just about everything you'll see in the night sky for just about any time you want it. Tons of great features in an easy to use program.

skymaps.com/ Free monthly Skymaps!

www.space.com/ Space.com Great stories about space research

www.nasa.gov NASA more good space stuff

neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ NASA NEO program giving us the heads up on the rocks zipping past our fair planet

hubblesite.org/ Hubble Space Telescope Great pictures

www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble's successor

chandra.harvard.edu/ Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope

www.adlerplanetarium.org/ Adler Planetarium

www.adlerplanetarium.org/astronomy/references/index.shtml Adler Planetarium Links page!

www.astronomy.com/home.asp Astronomy Magazine

skyandtelescope.com/ Sky and Telescope Magazine

[Thx for the links]

Muse, Thanks for the bunches of links. What I will do here is to create a separate catagory just for favorite links and software. I'm sure it will grow huge...but you started it all!

Muse, introduce yourself to us all, do you have any astronomical equipment, and if so detail them here, and I'll include them in our inventory.

Keep your posts coming!

Joe
[glow=blue,2,300]Chicago Astronomer[/glow]

[BigTenInch]

Here's another one that's pretty neat.

micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

[MuseAphelion]

That's really cool.

Play it in the reverse and you start to feel about as small as that proton in the carbon atom. It's mind boggling just how big the distances are in space.

Thanks for the link!

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

It really never ends. In both directions, inner and outer space, there is no final stop.

It seems to go on forever. Our understanding of outer space continually is expanding. What is the universe expanding into? I don't buy much into the big bang theory anyway.

And we keep peeking into inner space, past the atom, the quark and discussing string theory. The appearances and physics seem to hold true in both vistas. Perhaps WE are nothing but atomic particles to those peering down upon us.

Boggles the mind.

Joe
[glow=blue,2,300]Chicago Astronomer[/glow]

[NatureDevil]

A giant eye peering into a microscope only to view another eye peering into a microscope only to view another eye.....

I am convinced that is the universe's dirty little secret.

NatureDevil

[MuseAphelion]

Worlds within worlds as they say - profound stuff. Why do I suddenly have the feeling I'm being watched?

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

I like that toon much. It's exactly how I always felt. But this this mean we are existing inbetween the big and the small? Lost between two worlds?

...And where do the missing socks go?

[MuseAphelion]

Not really stuck between the big and the small, we're just a rung on the ladder.

As for the socks: