ILLUSTRATIONS!

Retrograde Motion Movie showing the retrograde motions of Saturn and Jupiter. Also the retrograde loop of Mars.
Tycho's Tools Some of Tycho Brahe's instruments.
Parallax An illustration of parallax.
Orbits Newton's diagram illustrating orbital motion.
Geocentric The geocentric Ptolemaic universe.
Heliocentric The heliocentric universe of Thomas Digges, 1576 and the Copernican Universe.
Jupiter Galileo's Jupiter observation notes.
Galileo's Moon Galileo's drawings of the Moon made in December of 1610.
Galileo Retro Galileo's retrograde motion diagram.
Galileo's Telescope One of Galileo's Telescopes
Galileo's Sunspots One of Galileo's sunspot drawings.
Herschel's Scope The 40 foot telescope designed by William Herschel in the late 18th century.
Razor Diffraction of light around a razor blade.
Fireball An atomic fireball one millisecond after detonation!
Earthquake Earthquake vibrations recorded by a sand-tracing pendulum!
Shock Waves Examples of shock waves. Pictures of the supersonic car!
Jetcar! Fantastic movie of the jet car breaking the sound barrier on land! (32 MB movie)
Spectral Types Illustration of stellar spectral types.
Neighborhood Stars in the Sun's neighborhood.
Color-Magnitude Diagram A color-magnitude diagram for the globular cluster M55.
Black Hole An artist's picture of a black hole in a binary system.
Planet-Sun Collision What would happen if a Jovian planet collided with a star?
Voyager Message The message sent on the Voyager spacecraft.
Electromagnetic Spectrum The Electromagnetic Spectrum.
Binary Stars Illustrations of binary stars.
Iceberg Picture of what is under "just the tip of the iceberg".