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Recently spotted by the Hubble Telescope in the constellation Taurus, this planet is many times the size of Jupiter and is being ejected from a double star system. It is the first planet that has been observed outside our solar system.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given us a keyhole view towards the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, where a dazzling array of stars reside. Most of the view of our galaxy is obscured by dust. Hubble peered into the Sagittarius Star Cloud, a narrow, dust-free region, providing this spectacular glimpse of a treasure chest full of stars. Some of these gems are among the oldest inhabitants of our galaxy
The earliest version of what was to become the Internet. |
There are 8500 man made objects 2.5 inches across or larger in orbit around the eath. On a recent mission the shuttle Columbia collided with 160 of them. The dots give a snapshot of where all the objects were at one moment in time. |
The largest map ever shows a
sphere of radius 700 million light years, each of which is six
million million miles
A F-4 Phantom II at the moment it broke the sound barrier at the Point Mugu Annual Naval Air Show. The photograph, by Pat Maloney, shows the visible shock wave. According to Maloney, the photo is the result of a humid day, split second timing and no small amount of luck. |
These earrings, which show a model of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima ('Little Boy' on the right) and a model of the atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki ('Fat Man' on the left) are available at the Los Alamos National Laboratory gift shop. |
This series of eight pictures of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter was taken over the last seven years by the Hubble telescope. |
A drop of gylcerine about to fall into a container of viscous oil
A computer model of The Milky Way colliding with Andromeda
in about 1 billion years
What's the opposite of bottom?
Solar flares on a particularly active day.