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Hubble Space Telescope: stsci.edu/resources/
Be an eyewitness to astronomical history in the making. Takes you to the cutting edge of discovery.

deepastronomy.com

The sky seen with X-ray vision: xrtpub.harvard.edu/

The why files: whyfiles.org/

Project Galileo: Bringing Jupiter To Earth.

Searching For Extra Solar Planets: exoplanets.org/
Two planet hunters' home page with good links to other sites. 

Eclipse Home Page Everything you may want to know about solar.(Sun).and lunar.(moon).eclipses ...nasa.gov

The Nine Planets:.A tour.(nineplanets.org).of our solar system and a gift for you from Microsoft that took many men and women years to complete: worldwidetelescope.org

Facts and figures on all planets and most of their moons. Thoroughly illustrated and has downloadable images and beyond: exoplanet.eu

Astronomy and the Star of Bethlehem. 

Aurora Borealis.(northern lights).and Aurora Australis.(southern lights);Aurora Borealis aurora polaris.(polar lights).is a general name for both. Both northern and southern lights are formed the same way and at the same time in perfect symmetry.

aurora borealis or northern lights - Iceland
See also the Aurora Borealis live from Yellowknife, NorthWest Territories: asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronomy/auroramax/default.asp

Aurae occur when charged particles from the Sun.(solar wind).collide with atoms and molecules in our atmosphere.(atmospheric gases are disrupted by these electrically charged particles from the sun). Lightning is the result of similar happenings.

The downward flow of particles from the Sun causing the Northern and Southern Lights is matched by an equal yet opposite flow of electrons upward. That flow carries the return current of what essentially is a giant circuit. This upward flow hollows out electrons in regions of the Earth's ionosphere and produces black auroras. 

The black aurora is the flip side of the Northern and Southern Lights. They are the opposite of visible auroras.."They are a perfect mirror image. They are two opposite sides of the exact same phenomenon".said Goran Marklund of the Alfven Laboratory in Sweden to the American Geophysical Union, as recorded in the journal Nature.(nature.com).and The Calgary Herald.(calgaryherald.com) .

Solar wind has been measured at 200 to 500 miles per second by astronauts orbiting Earth. Solar wind from our Sun reaches as far as Neptune.

Solar wind particles.(plasma).are miniature magnets.(photons, hot ionized gas comprised of protons, helium and electrons, which are charged particles from the Sun).carrying part of the Sun's magnetic field with them as they flow from it in vast clouds that pummel Earth's magnetic field. Most of the time these are deflected by the Earth's magnetic field, but sometimes they penetrate. These particles are funneled to open points in the Earth's magnetic field at the north and south poles where they react with the Earth's atmospheric gases.(oxygen and nitrogen), creating the north and south auroras.

Jo Ann Joselyn, senior space scientist at the Space Environment Centre, the space counterpart to the National Weather Service and Bruce Tsurutani, a physicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, are producing a research paper about how solar storms can affect Earth. ...Astronomy Magazine, January, 2000, page 56. They have found that Northern Lights appear more often when the Sun is the most active, right around the peak of the solar cycle.


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