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". |