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Create a custom naked-eye map of the whole sky for any place on Earth, at any time of day or night, on any date from 1600 to 2400. Our Interactive Sky Chart works in most Java-enabled Web browsers.

Sky Chart

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/

LIVE REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING AND PREDICTIONS: ESSAIM-4

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=28497 JAPAN TO LAUNCH 4 SATELLITES FRIDAY, 1 FOR SKOREA - Japan plans to launch four satellites into space this week, including a South Korean one that is its first payload for a foreign customer.

Planet Hunters

We find new planets by looking at how the brightness of a star changes over time http://www.planethunters.org/

Jupiter Statistics

http://www.windows2universe.org/jupiter/statistics.html You might also be interested in:
Ever wanted X-ray specs or super-human vision? http://www.chromoscope.net/

Chromoscope - View the Universe in different wavelengths

NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 2 p.m. EDT to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta using data from the agency’s Dawn spacecraft. http://www.moonphaseinfo.com/

Current Moon Phase / Lunar Phase / Moon Calendar

Your job is very simple! http://www.galaxyzoo.org/how_to_take_part

Galaxy Zoo: Hubble - How To Take Part

http://astro.ukho.gov.uk/eclipse/1622009/

Partial Eclipse of the Moon: 2009 December 31

The global visibility of this lunar eclipse is shown in the diagram to the left. A higher quality version of this global plot can be downloaded in pdf format by clicking on this image.

Stellarium

Stellarium 0.11.2 is a stable version that introduces some new features and closes 47 bug and wishlist reports. A lot of work has been done on making translatable text that wasn't localized before. This includes most of the text used by the default plug-ins, landscapes, countries, script names and descriptions. http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/
http://www.smeter.net/propagation/views/earth-from-moon.php

Current Moon View of the Earth

Moon's current position over Earth The current position of the Moon over the Earth is important to Earth-Moon-Earth (EME) moon-bounce communications, because two or more stations on Earth must be able to see the moon simultaneously to communicate. C urrent View of Earth from the Moon This is how the Earth would appear through a telescope from the Moon right now if the clouds currently around the Earth were removed.

Stardust - NASA's Comet Sample Return Mission

Stardust's Big Surprise The comet particles returned by the Stardust mission have been a real bonanza.

View from Satellite

To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list below and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button.