Category:Astronomy

Our solar system

• How big does the sun look from mars? (Google search result)

Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets

• Asteroid Fast Facts
• Asteroid impact avoidance (Wikipedia)
• Asteroid Mining (Wikipedia)
• Bolide: an extremely bright meteor, especially one that explodes in the atmosphere
• Comet (Wikipedia)
• The Hilda Group of Asteroids (Wikipedia)
• How big does a meteor have to be to make it to the ground? Hint: Anywhere from dust on up
• How fast is a comet (Google search results)
• Incoming! Meteor or Comet Fragment Explodes Above Southwestern US, Prompting US Army 'Missiles' Cover-up
• Meteor Smoke Makes Strange Clouds
• Small asteroid or comet "visits" from beyond the Solar System (Forbes)
• We Probably Wouldn't Even See A Doomsday Asteroid Until It Was Too Late
• The Willamette Meteorite

Galaxies

• The Andromeda Galaxy (M31)

Space Travel

Spacey bits

• How to land the Space Shuttle
• Extravehicular Activity also known as space walks
• Components of the Space Station presumably the ISS.
• 100 Women: The Women who Sew for NASA

Living bits

• Food and Cooking in Space
• How to brush your teeth on the International Space Station
• NASA asked students to make space furniture
• Sleeping in Space by NASA
• Sleeping in Space by the European Space Agency (ESA)
• Space Sleep because sleeping in space is clearly a critical topic

Medicine bits

• An Exhaustive Inventory of the International Space Station's Medicine Cabinet
• Strange but true: Astronauts get taller in space
• Blood in Zero Gravity: NASA tries to prepare for surgery in space
• Severe traumatic injury during long duration spaceflight: Light years beyond ATLS
• The Grim and Gory Reality of Surgery in Space
• Zero-G Blood and the Many Horrors of Space Surgery