stargate

celestial affairs

Chunks of orbital stuff, the planets, and the Hubble Deep Field. Here are some useful and visually attractive websites:

Visit the Astronomy Picture of the Day website.
International Space Station.
Shuttle tracking monitor.
Mars missions.
The Galileo mission at Jupiter. Explore Europa.
The Stardust mission.
Updates on the night-time sky and information about the constellations.
Obtain a daily listing of all the visible satellites passing over you and your self same sky by visiting the German Space Operations Centre.
Latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Heritage Project: The best and the brightest, across the universe.
Deep Space 1 mission.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Space Central (from the Houston Chronicle).
Geostationary Satellite Server and the GOES-8 Atlantic infrared loop.
NEAR: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission to Eros.
Weekly space mission updates.
New Mars -- A 'zine from the Mars Society.
Iridium observations.

Newly reported findings:

STS-100 [April 2001].

International Space Station.

Canadian Space Agency.

Digital sky survey reveals 'mystery object.' [August 1999}

Colliding galaxies. [July 1999]

A new solar system. [April 1999]

"Happy Face Crater" on Mars. [March 1999]

Europa fly-by. [February 1999]

Hubble provides new imagery and information about the Ring Nebula (M57). [January 1999]

Extrasolar planets. [January 1999]

Exploring Mars in 1999: Mars Polar Lander launched. [January 1999]

Super-magnetized stars: Discovering magnetars. [September 1998]

News from the Galileo space mission: Galileo finds Jupiter's rings formed by dust blasted from its small moons. [September 1998]

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show a ring of baby stars around the core of a galaxy. [June 1998]

Neutrinos in the news: Scientists report finding the existence of their mass. [June 1998]

The Hubble Space Telescope photographed the first extrasolar planet, in the constellation Taurus. Named TMR-1, and still needing to be confirmed, the finding opens a new venue for discovering extrasolar planets and protoplanets: ejectants from binary stars. [May 1998]

Scientists report finding a black hole that is devouring a galaxy, discovered using the Hubble Space Telescope. [May 1998]

Astronomers report that a gamma-ray explosion recorded last December was "so violent and bright that for about 40 seconds it appeared to outshine all the rest of the universe." [May 1998]