Space Weather

• SpaceWeather.com - SUNSPOT 940: New sunspot 940 is surrounded by a dark swirl of magnetic filaments... October 2006 Aurora Gallery COMET SWAN: There's a new comet in the night sky, Comet Swan. aurora gallery TOTAL ECLIPSE: photo gallery.FALSE AURORAS: The sun is quiet and auroras are scarce. False auroras, also known as light pillars, are caused by ice crystals, diamond dust, in the air. Start browsing. sky map. Aurora Gallery 2006, May 2005 Aurora Gallery ...eta-Aquarids.... Auroras Nov-2004 Aurora Season ... Check it out. . July 14th, Comet NEAT Eclipse Gallery - - Auroras Jan 2004 Aurora Gallery
• LUNAR ECLIPSE: On Tuesday, Aug. 28th, the full Moon will slip into Earth's shadow for a 90-minute total eclipse. (map) Moon will turn a dreamy shade of sunset red.
• X-ray Solar Flare Classification - "Solar Flare Alphabet Soup"
  
• December 2006 Aurora Gallery
  
• What is the sunspot number? - Scientists track solar cycles by counting sunspots...
  
• Comet McNaught Photo Gallery - Comet McNaught swung by the Sun in mid-January 2007. Fierce solar heat turned it into the brightest comet in 40 years...

• Is the Moon Still Alive? - Conventional wisdom says the Moon is dead. Conventional wisdom may be wrong.
• First Light for Hinode - Get ready for some fantastic images of the Sun.
• 2006 Transit of Mercury - Mark your calendar: On Wednesday, Nov 8th, the planet Mercury will pass directly in front the Sun.
• A Growing Intelligence Around Earth - Indonesian volcano Talang on the island of Sumatra.
• Novarupta - In June 1912, Novarupta—one of a chain of volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula—erupted...
• Strange Moonlight - Not so long ago, before electric lights, farmers relied on moonlight to harvest autumn crops.'Harvest Moon'
• PLUTO - HEADED FOR PLUTO
• Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive
• MBARI News - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
• The Space Place - Come on in and check out our games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
• Space Station Science - Picture of the Day Archive.
• See Learning In A Whole New Light!
• Ciencia@NASA - Nasa Español
• Liftoff to Space Exploration
• NASA KIDS - A Nasa site dedicated to kids - Kids of all ages!
• SpaceFlight Now -The latest news.
• Nasa - Office of Eucation

Science - News & Views

• BBC NEWS - Science/Nature.
• EurekAlert! - An online science news service, sponsored by AAAS, the science society. It features health, science and technology news from leading research institutes.
• Exploratorium - The museum of science, art and human perception.
• HubbleSite - NewsCenter.
• Nature Publishing Group - Science journals, jobs and information.
• New Scientist.com - Daily science news and technology news, hot topics, and a comprehensive database of science jobs and technology jobs.

• NOAA Magazine - Publication of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
• Reuters AlertNet - Aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe.
• ScienceDaily Magazine - Research News in Science, Health & Medicine, the Environment, Space, Technology, and Computers.
• Scientific American - Science and Technology at Scientific American.com:
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Glows Bows and Haloes - A personal collection of photos of atmospheric phenomena gathered over the years.
• Earth's Atmosphere
• The Earth's Atmosphere - The present atmosphere of the Earth is probably not its original atmosphere.
• Earth's Atmosphere - Wikipedia.
• The Earth's Atmosphere - The atmosphere surrounds Earth and protects us by blocking out dangerous rays from the sun (English/Spanish).
• The Earth's Atmosphere - The atmosphere is a thin layer of gas which surrounds the Earth.
• The Earth's Atmosphere - The Earth's atmosphere is composed of several very distinct layers.
• The Earth's Atmosphere - Near Real-Time Research Imagery.
• 4000 Years of Women in Science - The History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.
• A Black Box for People - Developed for astronauts, a small device called "the CPOD" does for people what black boxes do for airplanes..
• A Chip Off the Sun - Sky watchers can enjoy a solar eclipse this Friday when the Moon's shadow sweeps across the Pacific Ocean and parts of the Americas.
• A Close Encounter with Jupiter - This week, Earth and Jupiter are only 400 million miles apart--the nearest the two worlds will be all year.
• A Close Encounter with Mars - Today Earth and Mars will be closer together than at any time during the last 12 years.
• A Cold New World -The Hubble Space Telescope has measured the diameter of a distant world more than half the size of Pluto.
• A Day in the Life of a Space Walker - Astronaut and explorer Jim Reilly tells what it's like to do construction work in the far-out environment of space.
• A Disco Ball in Space - Students and scientists are teaming up for a far-out experiment to monitor the outer reaches of Earth's atmosphere.
• A Galactic Center Mystery - Astronomers have learned that the center of our Milky Way galaxy harbors a long-sought black hole. But the finding has raised even more questions than before.

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