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Space: The Final Frontier

"It’s only impossible until it’s possible."
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation

The Bijou School Astronomy Home Page

Table of Contents:
bullet An Overview of The Solar System
bullet ASTRONOMY CLASS
bullet The Solar System Home
bullet The Universe Home
bullet Spacecraft and Missions
bullet Bijou Science Home

On this Page:

bullet The Latest Astronomy News
bullet Outside Astronomy Links
bullet Seti@Home
bullet Societies/Publications
bullet Downloads:
bullet Get MPEG Players, Shockwave, Flash
bullet Celestia - 3D Simulation

In Memory of Those
Who Lost Their Lives
Venturing Out
to the Final Frontier...

 1/27/67 -Apollo 1

1/28/86 -STS51L
Lost 73 seconds after liftoff.

 

2/2/03 -STS107
Lost during reentry

 

Click The Moon:
CLICK for the Astronomy Picture of the Day

to see the Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Quick: What's wrong with this picture? If you scroll, and watch carefully as you do, you might notice more! (in Internet Explorer, anyway) -

The Latest News 

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Colorado Springs Clear Sky Clock

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Space.com

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Skylights: What's up in the sky this week

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The Planetary Society, especially updates for Saturn & Mars missions.

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Hubble Telescope NEWSCENTER

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Sky and Telescope News

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NASA News

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The Night Sky Live

Outside Astronomy Links & Resources
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Basics of Space Flight Learners' Workbook

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US Naval Observatory

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From the editors of Astronomy Magazine:
A GLOSSARY OF ASTRONOMICAL TERMS

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Abrams Planetarium Skywatcher's Diary for this month

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What's Up

Picture Sites

The Constellations and Their Stars

Hubble Space Telescope Pictures

High-Def Mars Images

Anglo-Australian Observatory

THE MESSIER CATALOG 
The entire catalog with pictures!

The Web Nebulae

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NASA Home Page

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Some interesting animated pictures...


setibutton.gif (3035 bytes)SETI@home is a program you can download to run as a screensaver that actually analyzes radio telescope data for evidence of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.  Go here to find out if your computer is up to the task.  It's free, and useful!

Societies and Publications

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Download Sites:

 shockwave logoto download Shockwave, Flash Free Players.

 

Other Downloads:

Celestia - a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions - limited, but cool.

An Alien Sunrise experimental Flash

Updated 05/27/2008