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Hurricane from Space

Barringer Crater – Arizona, USA

On the edge of Barringer Crater

Inside Barringer Crater

The bottom of Barringer Crater

Wolfcreek Crater - Australia

Yucatan Crater

Aurora Borealis

Aurora Borealis from space

Apollo 11 on the moon

Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon

‘Earthrise’ as viewed from lunar orbit

Lunar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse

Our Milky Way Galaxy

A Space Shuttle lifts off

The CanadaArm on the Space Shuttle

Space Shuttle Discovery

Space shuttle piggy-back on a Jumbo 747

The International Space Station

An astronaut on CanadaArm2

Part of the ISS truss

Two astronauts working on the ISS truss

Sunrise from the International Space Station

Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Columbia

Hubble Space Telescope

The Sun

Our Solar System

Mercury – closest to the sun

Venus – our closest planetary neighbor

Surface of Venus – the hottest planet in our solar system

Mars – the red planet

Surface features of Mars

The surface of Mars

The surface of Mars

Phobos – largest moon of Mars

The asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter

Jupiter – king of the planets its mass is greater than all the other planets combined!

The great red spot is a huge storm!

Io and Europa – moons of Jupiter

Europa – ice moon of Jupiter

Comet impact on Jupiter

Saturn – thousands of rings made of dust and gases

Titan – Saturn’s largest moon

Uranus – the oddball… It spins vertically and has vertical rings

Neptune – fastest winds in the solar system

Pluto – no longer a planet

The Kuiper Belt orbits outside of Neptune. Pluto is now considered a large Kuiper Belt Object.

Pluto – no longer a planet

Earth – 6.4 billion km away

Comets

Comets

Asteroids

The Eagle Nebula (Pillars of Creation)

Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula

Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula – a star nursery

A planetary nebula

Cats Eye planetary nebula

Eskimo planetary nebula

Whirlpool Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

Sombrero Galaxy

Galaxies colliding

Hubble Space Telescope ‘deep space shot’ in 2004

Hubble Space Telescope ‘deep space shot’ in 2009

Time to start exploring the Universe!