Space & Planets Multimedia
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The Solar System
The BBC's fantastic travel guide to the Solar System is full of animations, interactive games and more. The Solar System is made up of the Sun, the planets, their moons, asteroids and comets. Experience an amazing variety of worlds. Run the gauntlet of floating rocks and boulders in the asteroid belt. Encounter the icy comets that wander through the outer Solar System.
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Brief History of Cosmology
Cosmology is fun on this BBCi site with great flash animation. The best brains in the business believed that the Earth's natural place was at the centre of the Universe, and all the other planets, including the sun, circled around us. The heavens were perfect and immutable. The Catholic Church had adopted Aristotelian philosophy - even scripture as interpreted by the Holy Fathers agreed that it was the sun that moved in the heavens and not the Earth. The Earth does not feel as if it is moving, so what prompted Galileo to argue that it does?
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Cosmic Evolution
Cosmic evolution is the study of the many varied changes in the assembly and composition of energy , matter and life in the thinning and cooling Universe. The arrow of time from the origin of the Universe to the present and beyond spans several major epochs throughout all of history.
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Cosmic Evolution Videos
Here are 14 videos covering the seven epochs.
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Amazing Space
Amazing Space uses the Hubble Space Telescope discoveries to inspire and educate about the wonders of our universe. Here are the direct links to their sections:
Online explorations
Find all the classic Amazing Space activities. Get to know our vast universe by exploring its planets, galaxies, comets, black holes, and more …
Capture the cosmos
Delve into the storehouse of goodies on galaxies, black holes, comets, the solar system and more…
The Star Witness
Extra, extra! Read all about it! Get the hottest space news, straight from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Best of Hubble: The Show
Your very own planetarium show on some of the best photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hi resolution photos with music and information. Take 5 and chill out.
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The European Space Agency Gallery
The ESA Multimedia Gallery is updated every week with selected images, videos and tracks from their collection.
Search and View ESA's excellent video collection
Five videos on the Hubble Space Telescope
10 videos on planetary exploration
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Explore Mars Now
Learn about space science and technology via this web-based simulator. Explore the planet Mars with realistic Mars habitats, rockets, ground cars and robots. Packed with information on how man might live on Mars.
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Solar Views,NASA - JPL Solar System Simulator
Find any view of any planet/moon from any object in the Solar System, including spacecraft. Set your position, what you want to see, the date etc. And there it is!! Great fun with this NASA site.
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Mars Travel,SpaceWander Roundtrip First Class
Take a simulated 12 minute ride to Mars on the Mars Odyssey STS-72 from Kennedy Space Centre. Complete with moving pictures, audio and data right to your arrival at Mars.
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The Elegant Universe
One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed -- one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein -- gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated explanation. The 3-hour miniseries with Brian Greene was broadcast on the US PBS NOVA series presenting the nuts, bolts, and sometimes outright nuttiness of string theory. Also known as superstring theory, the startling idea proposes that the fundamental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strings of energy whose different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. The theory successfully unites the laws of the large - general relativity - and the laws of the small - quantum mechanics - breaking a conceptual logjam that has frustrated the world's smartest scientists for nearly a century. On this website the entire series is divided into short videostreams packed with interactive modules, articles and animated graphics. Find out all about this leading edge theory on the origin of everything, who agrees and who doesn't.
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Earth Day Webcast: The Search for Another Earth
The webcast of an interactive discussion with NASA scientists about how the search for another Earth outside our solar system might help us learn about our own past and future. This hour long video features interviews with astronomers and videos about the planet Venus as compared to Earth, as well as a look at how transits of other planets around far distant suns are one way of finding planets orbiting others suns in our galaxy. Also check out the Planet Quest Interactive Gallery for many other NASA programmes looking at the extra-solar planet search.
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Reanimating the 1882 Transit of Venus
From this Sky and Telescope website you can download a movie made from 147 plates of the 1882 transit taken by the Lick Observatory in California. This collection of photos constitutes the most complete surviving record of a historical transit of Venus. It's the shadow-show of an astronomical event that occurred when Queen Victoria sat on the throne of Great Britain, a moving record of an event seen by no one now living, and a preview of what millions will see for the first time on June 8, 2004.
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