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Just slide the bar at the bottom left or right. Very cool! Be sure to go BOTH ways on the sliding scale at the bottom. Click on any graphics and it will give facts. and it will define it. This is amazing.

"In order to report your observation of the night sky, you will need to know the geographic coordinates for your location, your latitude and longitude (Lat/Long). There will be an interactive lat/long locator available when entering your observations online at the "Report" page of this site."

"Phoebe's true nature is revealed in startling clarity in this mosaic of two images taken during Cassini's flyby on June 11, 2004"

"Deputy Project Manager Sandra Cauffman talks about her work on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolunioN (MAVEN) mission and her career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. This video is the first of a two-part Spanish-language series. Closed captions in English."

"Milky Way, Aurora and other night timelapse"

"We're searching for interesting signals coming from the Kepler Field. Will we find life on another planet? "

"Mars was once a much wetter world than it is now, with hot springs, rivers, lakes and perhaps even oceans. Just how wet exactly, and for how long, is still a subject of considerable debate. One vital clue comes from clay mineral deposits and sediments left over after the water disappeared, but still visible now. They provide a valuable insight into what Mars used to be like, and why it is the cold, dry place we see today."

"More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite. The map, published by the U. S. Geological Survey, depicts the characteristics and relative ages of some of the most geologically unique and active volcanoes and lava flows ever documented in the Solar System."

"This video explains the geocentric and heliocentric theories. It was used for Greek Fest at our school."

"Solar Walk pieces together each planet in real time and real location to give a fully accurate view of where things are, where things have been and where things are going in space. Simply tap on the planet that you wish to explore closer up."

"For nearly 35 years, NASA's Voyager 1 probe has been hurtling toward the edge of the solar system, flying through the dark void on a mission unlike anything attempted before. One day, mission controllers hope, Voyager 1 will leave the solar system behind and enter the realm of the stars-interstellar space. "

"The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. ((In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego. ((Sponsored by Digital Science: http://www.digital-science.com/ a new division of Macmillan Publishers that provides technology solutions for researchers. Available under a CC-BY-3.0-Unported license. Antikythera Mechanism Research Project http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr"

for little kids - Elmo, cartoons

Activities from NASA's Kepler Mission, including the use of the transit method to detect exoplanets.

"Don't Miss the Transit of Venus in 2012: It's Your Last Chance Until 2117"

"overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. "

"The Juno spacecraft is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V-551 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., in Aug. 2011, reaching Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter 32 times, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops, for approximately one year. "