Countless megabytes of pictures are out there. I've snagged a variety of these and made up several galleries of photos from elsewhere than our own planet, reached from the links below.

	Many of these are from the Hubble Space Telescope, surely one of the most amazing of our research machines.
	Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto, as well as their moons.
	Most people my age can remember what they were doing on the day human beings first set foot on Earth's moon.
	The richness of the photographs obtained during flights of the shuttle is staggering. More recently, the International Space Station has become one of the more conspicuous sights in the night or morning skies. I follow the schedule of sighting opportunities in my vicinity and rush out to see it pass over.

The links below take you to the major sources I've found for information about the planets, the Hubble telescope, and the Shuttle.

• The NASA Public Affairs server is by far the richest single source I've found for images like these. It in turn has links to just about everything imaginable in the field.

• Welcome to the Planets is collection of photos from planetary explorer satellites.

• The Nine Planets offers solid science. It's designed to teach you quite a lot about the solar system.

• Solar System Live provides an orrery so you can watch the solar system spin.

• The Hubble Space Telescope is daily slaving away, returning image upon image of things we never dreamed of until this instrument opened the door.

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