NASA

A network of automated telescopes that can be controlled online.

Designed by scientists and teachers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, telescopes are designed to allow young people around the country to explore the wonders of the deep sky from their classrooms or after-school centers.

They are located and maintained at observatories affiliated with the Center for Astrophysics, including the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Whipple Observatory in Amado, Arizona.

Service places and regularly updates photos of the sun from SOHO and SDO satellites.
Photos are updated quite often, almost in real time.
Sometimes you can see something else, such as Mercury, comets flying up to the sun.

You can work with the archive and even open a new comet, such cases were.

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
NASA has taken thousands of images of the moon and they were collected in such an interactive map.
The map has a huge number of filters, you can overlay or remove the grid of coordinates, etc.

Webcam, live broadcast from orbit.
The NASA Office broadcasts live video on the Internet from the International Space Station (ISS) on the Internet, but you can only watch the earth from space when astronauts are either resting or sleeping.

And at other times, these transmitters are needed for work. But nevertheless, take a moment to watch the earth online from space. When the crew of the international space station rests, users of the global Internet can watch the planet Earth online and the starry sky through the eyes of astronauts - from a height of 350 km above the planet.

The rest of the time is shown a screensaver that shows the current position of the station, as well as NASA news about events in space. To calculate when astronauts go to sleep, you need to remember: the ISS uses universal coordinated time (UTC), which in winter is three hours behind Moscow time and four hours in summer.

Map of the Milky Way from NASA.

It's like an ordinary map, not just the whole sky, but a strip. You can scroll, zoom in, see what place our galaxy you are exploring.

High Definition Earth-Viewing System.

There is very little text on the page, the main thing is the video player, which allows you to see the earth in real time through a camera installed on the International Space Station.
You can choose the level of image quality.

The map shows where it is flying now.

Unfortunately, the player often does not show anything. Probably because it’s far from the most important thing that NASA does at the station, so to speak, is a by-product.
But try, maybe you are lucky now?

The action is over, just like the flight itself.

Do you want your photo to travel from the cosmos?
And to get an official NASA certificate about it?
And you want all this Was it for free?
Then hurry!

NASA decided to stage the last flight of its two shuttles:

1. STS-133 flight is scheduled for September 16, 2010,
2. STS-134 flight - For November 2010.

Participation

Certificate

1. STS-133 flight is scheduled for September 25, 2010,
2. STS-134 flight is for November 2010.

STS-133 flight

Flight STS-134

The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in space, so that the atmosphere of the earth does not distort the pictures.

This site is mostly interesting images that this telescope made.

NASA posted gigapixel photos from Mars.
If you compare old photos from Mars or the Moon, it was black and white low-quality photos. Whether the film was digesting the cosmos poorly, or the reaction went badly. But now it's quite another matter.

NASA (NASA) - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (English National Aeronautics and Space Administration) - an agency owned by the US federal government, reporting directly to the vice-president of the USA and financed on 100% from the state budget, responsible for the civil space program of the country.

The site has NASA TV - streaming with the ISS, as well as a lot of spectacular interesting.

So the site is called, this is the site and does, nothing more, a figure corresponding to the number of people in space at the moment.
Below is a list of those who are currently in space, click, get on the page about this cosmonaut in Wikipedia.

Explore Mars with the current mission of NASA.
The site has material for those who want to participate in the mission on Mars, a lot of useful (not just beautiful aesthetically, but cognitive) photos, other information.
Clearly, most of them will go to Mars, well, suddenly ...