COOL ASTRONOMY MOVIE CLIPS

• A Comet Destroyed by the Sun! (.5MB mpg) (Movie C2)

  An Explanation of What You See in This Movie

• A Wider View Of Comet Destroyed by the Sun (Including Solar Motion Against Background Stars!) (.83MB mpg) (Movie C3)

  An Explanation of What You See in This Movie

• Rotation of Mars as Seen Through the Hubble Telescope (.775MB mpg)

• Meteors(?) Falling on Jupiter's Moon Europa! (1.1MB mpg)

• A Quasar Emitting Prodigious Energy (1.2MB mpg)

• Simulated Flight Across the Surface of Saturn's Moon, Titan (1.33MB mpg)

• Huge Tornado on the Sun! (206KB mov)

• An off-center collision between a red giant star and a white dwarf star!

• Spectacular 7-minute movie of the launch of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft on April 7th, 2001 from Cape Canaveral. The camera was mounted on the exterior of the Delta 2 rocket's 2nd stage. (4.25 MB Real Audio)

• This film shows small thrusters firing to spin up the 3rd stage and the attached Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The 3rd stage separates from the 2nd stage, and the video signal ends (to groans) just moments before the 3rd stage ignites. (440 KB Quicktime)

• More rockets! Here's the launch of Space Shuttle STS112 on October 7, 2002.