Videos: Intro to Astronomy – Planetary Society

 The Planetary Society offers a variety of videos including a  couple of videos from an introductory astronomy course taught by Bruce Betts at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Intro Astronomy 2013. Class 1: Tour of the Solar System | The Planetary Society

Intro Astronomy 2013. Class 2: How We Explore Space | The Planetary Society

ISS Cupola image collection

The ISS Cupola is the most futuristic, this-is-the-way-space-was-supposed-to-be feature of the ISS. Here’s a collection of images of it: 10 Awesome Images of the Space Station’s Cupola – universetoday.com

This has long been my favorite image from the ISS. Definitely looks like sci-fi book cover:

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More gorgeous ISS imagery of the nighttime earth

A beautiful video (with soundtrack) of nighttime views of the earth as seen from the ISS: Another Incredible Timelapse from the ISS – universetoday.com

Caption:

Published on Feb 1, 2013

Edited by Brian Tomlinson: http://www.btprints.com
Original stills for the time lapse sequences courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.
Music: ‘Eve’ by Emancipator. http://www.emancipatormusic.com

Aurora Borealis lights up the northern sky

Alan Boyle posts some images and videos of recent displays spectacular northern lights: Take a minute to spend the night with northern lights – PhotoBlog

For example:

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