Extrasolar Planets around HR 8799
For years astronomers have been identifying planets around other stars by observing star wobbles created by Newton’s Third Law of Motion. Today the first direct images of extrasolar planets were released. NASA showed a planet orbiting the star Fomalhaut, while the Gemini and Keck observatories released images of a three-planet system around star HR 8799.
Fomalhaut b
Faraday Cage
Goodness gracious, this fellow has great faith in his Faraday Cage!
Unlike elevators, those darn escalators don’t even come with escape hatches, do they? Oh, and the wonderful song at the end is Life is Good by the Swedish jazz group Funkservice International.
Mars Water Ice
Enjoy some great images selected from the past five years of the Mars Express mission. Even better, they come with explanations!
Astronomer Tony Darnell does a nice job in this YouTube video, a la Carl Sagan, of illustrating the overwhelming size of the universe and providing context for the amazing Deep Field images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Meador Manor 
