GALACTASMA AND OTHER COSMIC DREK Introduction - What the hell is all this and why is it all so seemingly unrelated? NEWS & WEATHER: NASA Today Chandra X-Ray Observatory News Space Weather Mars weekly weather reports IMAGES! (drool): Erupting star in Monceros (animation)      [Archive] HEASARC - Gamma-ray, X-ray, and extreme ultraviolet sources. Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) archive - Will take you a long time, but well worth it! Chandra X-Ray Observatory photo album (Harvard) Chandra stock photos (NASA) - Browse dir. Hubble Space Telescope public pictures Space.com photo galleries - lots of misc. images, within annoying pop-up window. Planetary images - NASA Solar images from SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, NASA/ESA Mars Pathfinder images - 1997 My favorite nebula (Rosette, NGC 2237) and naturally, My favorite constellation (Monoceros) Interesting backwards galaxy (NGC 4622) GENERAL SPACE LINKS: NASA | Listing of NASA centers Listing of NASA missions Space.com SETI Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute Astronomical Society of the Pacific     FUN STUFF: NASA TV Frank Culbertson, Astronaut's letter from Space       Sept 11 letter from space. Shannon Lucid - Astronaut chick from Oklahoma! (I knew her brother Joe in the OKC Philharmonic). Astronaut Selection & Training - The training requirements and astronaut bios are incredibly inspiring. Space Adventures - For those with $$$$$$$$ Universe timeline Books I've read recently: The Accelerating Universe - Mario Livio Mars: Uncovering the Secrets of the Red Planet - Paul Raeburn and Matt Golombek Entering Space - Robert Zubrin The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must - Robert Zubrin A Photographic Tour of the Universe - Gabriele Vanin Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love - Dava Sobel Music selections: The Planets - Gustav Host Jupiter Symphony (#41) - Mozart Star Wars - John Williams Also Sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss. Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Space TV: Discovery Science Channel (on cable tv.) "Cosmic Fridays". All space programs. Around the Galaxy is my favorite.		Scooby Doo, where are you??             (find out here) MARS: Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Missions:       Pathfinder       Odyssey       Global Surveyor Mars Society - these people are focused on future terraforming and colonization of Mars. Matt Golombek - Mars Pathfinder Chief Scientist. What a guy! bio My participation in Mars Exploration Rover 2003 COSMOLOGY: Cosmology 101 - from MAP website. Cosmology tutorial - Ned Wright MAP - The Microwave Anisotropy Probe will have higher resolution, sensitivity, and accuracy than COBE. COBE - measures diffuse infrared and microwave radiation from the early universe Cosmic microwave background Natl. Cosmology Supercomputer (UK)