The Universe Presentation

Hubble Telescope Explore the Universe through Hubble's eye, and witness the most dangerous, spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos.	Sapce and NASA News Get the latest outer space and science news, NASA information and watch space flight videos.	NASA Street View Street View - NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, USA
Stars and Galaxies Interactive Way beyond our Solar System there are billions and billions of stars. Some stars are much younger than our Sun and others are much older. There are different types of star and the distances between them are huge.	The 116 photos NASA picked ... The 116 photos NASA picked to explain our world to aliens.	Images of a Space-Time Odyssey Love 'Cosmos?' Then NASA's 'Images of a Space-Time Odyssey' Will Make Your Jaw Drop.
The Cosmos - Celestial Objects Our universe contains an amazing array of celestial objects, sometimes referred to as celestial bodies or astronomical objects.	Mars Science Laboratory With its rover named Curiosity, Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes.	Mars Greeley Haven 360 Panorama This is the latest panorama released by NASA July 2012. It was assembled from 817 images taken between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'. on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater.
BBC Space Explore the planets, black holes, stars and more.	The Scale of the Universe Zoom from quantum foam to the edge of the observable Universe.	Tour the Solar System Warning: For those wanna-be astronauts and space travelers out there, this interactive model of the solar system could prove to be highly addictive. With one click, you can visit Saturn, Venus, or the other planets and then spin and explore them in three dimensions. The interface uses NASA calculations to precisely position all celestial bodies.
NASA Explore the Universe.	CERN At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light.	54 Years of Space Exploration 54 years of space exploration: an updated map that you must see.
Astronomy Through the Ages Learn about the progression of astronomy from 2400 bc - 2011.	A Speck in the Universe The Earth, our Solar System, the Sun, Arcturus, Antares, the Milky Way and the Universe. How does the size of Earth stack up.	Interactive - How big is Space? Pilot a rocket through the Solar System.
Meteor Impact Craters Around the ... Hey there meteorite fans! We all want to get our hands on some of the most beautiful (and if possible, rare!) meteorites out there. But have we ever taken the time to step back from our astronomical pursuits, and think – where did it all come from? That bit of the universe that we hold in our hand now – where did it originate? What is it composed of? And where did it impact on the Earth?	Sharpest Views of the Cosmos Ever StarStruck invites you to discover the cosmos and go behind the scenes of space exploration. Also learn what's coming up in your night sky.	Star Struck Exploring the Universe.
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man’s blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!	Monster Saturn Hurricane Monster Saturn Hurricane Recorded by NASA - NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured high-resolution pictures of a large, mysterious hurricane over Saturn's North Pole. The eye of this huge storm is 1,250 miles across with cloud speeds as fast as 330 miles per hour.	The fury of our sun captured in ... The fury of our sun captured in never-before-seen detail - Normally it's harmful to stare at the sun, but for researchers at the NJIT’s Big Bear Solar Observatory, that's their job. Stripping away the danger with its New Solar Telescope (NST), the team used its newly-equipped spectrometer to help capture the clearest images of the sun's atmosphere to date, discovering never-before-seen features within the star at the center of our solar system.
Black Holes - National Geographic Albert Einstein thought that a black hole - a collapsed star so dense that even light could not escape its thrall - was too preposterous a notion to be real. Einstein was wrong.	Scientists Unravel Secrets of ... Scientists Unravel Secrets of Monster Black Hole at Center of Milky Way - Supermassive black hole last erupted two million years ago, and will again.	Did a hyper-black hole spawn the ... Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe? Big Bang was mirage from collapsing higher-dimensional star, theorists propose.
Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps The broadly accepted theory for the origin and evolution of our universe is the Big Bang model, which states that the universe began as an incredibly hot, dense point roughly 13.7 billion years ago. So, how did the universe go from being fractions of an inch (a few millimeters) across to what it is today?	Weird, Out-Of-Whack Exoplanetary ... Weird, Out-Of-Whack Exoplanetary System Discovered - Scientists have been using data collected by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler space telescope not only to look for planets beyond the solar system but also to probe their parent stars, which pulsate as they spin, causing variations in brightness.	What's the weather like on Titan? What's the weather like on Titan? 'Salt flats' provide new clues - Fresh images of the hydrocarbon lakes on Titan reveal what appears to be the extraterrestrial equivalent of salt flats — a discovery that adds yet another layer of mystery to Saturn's largest moon.
What space jellyfish tell us ... What space jellyfish tell us about interplanetary travel - Back in the 1990s, when we had the space shuttles available for ferrying stuff into orbit, we sent jellyfish into space. Then, it seemed almost comically simple to come up with a science experiment. Pick an object or living thing, launch it into orbit, see what happens. But it wasn’t as easy as it seemed. For NASA to accept your proposal, you had to have a good reason for it—you couldn’t just send anything up there.	In 200 million years days will be... In 200 million years days will be 25 hours long - Wish you had another hour in the day to get everything done? Just wait 200 million years, when days here on Earth will stretch to 25 hours.	Water found in stardust suggests... Water found in stardust suggests life is universal - A sprinkling of stardust is as magical as it sounds. The dust grains that float through our solar system contain tiny pockets of water, which form when they are zapped by a blast of charged wind from the sun.
Is Distant Galaxy Milky Way 'Baby'? When searching for galaxies to study, it is easiest to pick out the biggest and brightest. This is especially true if you want to look at very distant galaxies; ones that were around when the Universe was very young. It is quite a challenge to pick out a faint, normal, almost “boring” galaxy from a time long ago, but when astronomers used the 10-meter Keck telescope to do just that, it was pretty exciting.	Ancient Mars Was Habitable For ... Ancient Mars Was Habitable For Hundreds Of Millions Of Years, Old Rocks Suggest - Mars may have once been capable of supporting microbial life for hundreds of millions of years in the distant past, new findings from a long-lived Red Planet rover suggest.	Are We Really All Made of Stars? "We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff," Sagan famously stated.
Active Volcanoes Revealed on Venus Scientists have long suspected that volcanoes played a huge role in the evolution of cloud-shrouded Venus, the second planet from the sun. Now, images from Europe’s Venus Express orbiter are showing that volcanic eruptions may not just be a thing from the past.	The Incredible Shrinking Mercury The scorched first rock from the sun has contracted into itself even more than previously thought -- losing 7 kilometers (more than 4 miles) of elevation in some parts, according to new research using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.	First 'Mega-Earth' Impossibly heavy planet is the first 'mega-Earth' - Twice the size of Earth and with 17 times our planet's mass, Kepler-10c is so unusual that it has been placed in a brand new class of exoplanet.
12 Diagrams That Changed How We ... These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, our visions of the cosmos often took the shape of diagrams—representing what we believed about our solar system.	Beyond Energy, Matter, Time & Space Though he probably didn’t intend anything so jarring, Nicolaus Copernicus, in a 16th-century treatise, gave rise to the idea that human beings do not occupy a special place in the heavens. Nearly 500 years after replacing the Earth with the sun as the center of the cosmic swirl, we’ve come to see ourselves as just another species on a planet orbiting a star in the boondocks of a galaxy in the universe we call home ...	Rotating Moon Video and Images The video, a patchwork of images of the moon's various surfaces at their peak of solar illumination, ‘shows that there is no dark side of the moon — there's a far side,’ scientist Noah Petro says.
The prevailing hypothesis ... The prevailing hypothesis today is that the Moon formed after a Mars-sized body (named Theia) collided with Earth.	How the Moon Evolved According to a new study, scientists think Earth's moon formed about 95 million years after the first solids condensed in the solar system.	Star Stuff ABC Science Hosted by Stuart Gary, StarStuff takes us on a weekly journey across the universe. StarStuff reports on the latest news and discoveries in science, with a special focus on astronomy, space sciences and cosmology.
iPad App NASA Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA App for iOS.	iPad App Rocket Science 101 You don't have to be a rocket scientist to launch a NASA spacecraft with NASA's Rocket Science 101 (RS101)! Select your favorite NASA mission and build a rocket to send the spacecraft into orbit. As you take the RS101 challenge, you can learn more about thrilling missions and the various components of the launch vehicles, how they are configured and how they work together to successfully launch a NASA spacecraft.	iPad App Exoplanet The Exoplanet app is a highly visual and interactive catalogue of all known exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars beyond our own Solar System. It is frequently updated whenever new discoveries are confirmed. An amazing model of the Milky Way lets you explore our universe all the way from the Solar System to the cosmic microwave background.
iPad App 3D Sun "3D Sun" lets you carry a virtual window onto today's sun, right in your pocket. Open this app anytime to see what's happening today on the sun's ever-changing surface. See when major solar flares erupt on the sun's surface. Track sunspots that reveal the churning activity inside the sun's fiery inferno.	iPad App NASA Visualization Explorer A direct connection to NASA’s extraordinary fleet of research spacecraft, this app presents cutting edge research stories in an engaging and exciting format. See the Earth as you’ve never seen it before; travel to places otherwise unavailable to even the most intrepid explorers! Download it now, tap into the power of NASA’s cutting-edge research today and check for new stories every week!	iPad App Hubble Top 100 Feel the Universe at your fingertips and access a universe of knowledge with the ESA/Hubble Top 100 Images, which brings users the best Hubble pictures from ESA, as NASA’s partner in this international project.
iPad App Space Images Discover stunning images and videos of space, stars and planets -- including Earth and the sun! -- at your fingertips with the Space Images app from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a leader in robotic exploration of the solar system.	iPad App Moon Moon is a perfect resource to help you learn about the moon. Moon constantly updates a panel of information that tells you everything you want to know about the moon.	iPad App NOVA Black Holes Start with a star and play over 50 levels to watch it become a black hole. Hurl your star across spacetime to hit your target. Navigate fields of cosmic objects and hazards—like neutron stars and quasars—avoiding some, and slingshotting around others, in your quest to become more massive. Reach the end, and your star collapses….to become a black hole.

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