World Science: Science in Images

<body leftmargin="0" bgcolor="#000060" text="#FFFFFF" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF9900">   <div align="center" style="width: 80%; height: 9336; left: 1; top: 15; position: absolute; z-index: 10"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="95%" height="184"> <tr>  </tr> <tr>  <td valign="top" width="35%" height="1"> <p align="center" style="line-height: .85; padding-left: 6; padding-right: 6; padding-top: 6; background-position: center 50%"><font face="Times New Roman" size="6" color="#FFFF00">WORLD SCIENCE</font> <p align="center" style="line-height: .85; padding-left: 6; padding-right: 6; padding-top: 6; background-position: center 50%"><b><font size="6" face="Monotype Corsiva" color="#FFFFFF">Science in images<br> </font></b> <p align="center" style="line-height: .9; padding-left: 6; padding-right: 6; padding-top: 6; background-position: center 50%"><font size="3"><b>A compendium of the most beautiful (and <font color="#FFFF00">coolest</font>) science images on the Web</b></font></td>   </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p align="center" style="padding-bottom: 10"><i><font color="#FFFF00" size="2">Click on the images to see related websites with full-size images and other related pictures. (World Science does not vouch for contents of any outside websites)</font></i> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00; padding-top: 10"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>NEWLY FEATURED</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.valentinaba.com/vale_photo_detail.asp?vbc=13"><img border="0" src="http://www.valentinaba.com/images/photo/large/1004781514467.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/cas-supernova"></a><font size="2">From the photo studio website of <a href="http://www.valentinaba.com">Valentina Bacchetti</a><br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.valentinaba.com/vale_photo_detail.asp?vbc=6"><img border="0" src="http://www.valentinaba.com/images/photo/large/986364671260.jpg" width="100" height="76" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/cas-supernova"></a><font size="2">From the photo studio website of <a href="http://www.valentinaba.com">Valentina Bacchetti</a><br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.valentinaba.com/vale_photo_detail.asp?vbc=13"><img border="0" src="http://www.valentinaba.com/images/photo/large/986362712954.jpg" width="100" height="107" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/cas-supernova"></a><font size="2">From the photo studio website of <a href="http://www.valentinaba.com">Valentina Bacchetti</a><br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.spacetelescope.org"><img border="0" src="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/catseye-small" width="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Dying stars, called planetary nebulae, very often have rings such as those seen in this image, astronomers have found. This photo depicts the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one such dying star. It's 3,000 light years away. (Hubble Space Telescope) <br> <br> <br> </font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/casa/casa_xray.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/cas-supernova" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="http://members.aol.com/scipage/images/cas-supernova"></a><font size="2">The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A : The most detailed image ever made of the remains of an exploded star. A bright outer ring (green) ten light- years wide marks the location of a shock wave generated by the supernova explosion. A large jet-like structure protrudes past the shock wave in the upper left. The colors don't reflect what the eye would see, but rather represent different X-ray energies. Red, green, and blue represent low, medium, and higher X-ray energies. (Credit: NASA/ CXC/ GSFC/ U.Hwang et al.)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0720donutcloud.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/spacesci/pictures/2004/0720donutcloud/doughnut_esa_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Massive black holes often float in doughnut-shaped gas clouds which, depending on our line of sight, blocks the view of the black hole in the center. Using two European Space Agency orbiting telescopes, scientists looked "edge on" into this doughnut, called a torus, to see features never before seen so clearly. How the doughnut forms, however, remains a mystery. (added July 20, 2004. Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)<br> <br> </font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmg/photocomp/popup.php?photo=gwh23&id=1"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/nanobouquet.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="../sci-images-images/nanobouquet.bmp"></a><font size="2">Nanoflowers: University of Cambridge PhD student Ghim Wei Ho photographed these microscopic creations, which she had made of silicon-based material using a chemical vapor deposition process.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmg/photocomp/popup.php?photo=gwh23&id=7"><img border="0" src="http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/mmg/photocomp/thumbs/gwh23_7" width="100" height="86" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="../sci-images-images/nanobouquet.bmp"></a><font size="2">Nanotrees: University of Cambridge PhD student Ghim Wei Ho photographed these microscopic creations, which she had made of silicon-based material using a chemical vapor deposition process.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00; padding-top: 10"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>PLANETS & MOONS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/gal_p50548.html"><img border="0" src="http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/midres/gal_p50548.gif" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jupiter's moon Io (NASA, National Space Science Data Center)</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/originals/Fig19_115.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect19/originals/Fig19_115.jpg" width="100" height="96" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A volcano erupts on Jupiter's moon Io (NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"> <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02550"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA02550.jpg" width="100" height="96" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Another active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this image taken on February 22, 2000 by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.  (NASA, National Space Science Data Center)</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"> <a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02527"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/browse/PIA02527.jpg" width="100" height="126" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Another active volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io was captured in this image taken on February 22, 2000 by NASA's Galileo spacecraft.  (NASA, National Space Science Data Center)</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/image_gallery/solar_system/graphics/jupiter_page5/callisto_150.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/image_gallery/solar_system/graphics/jupiter_page5/callisto_150.jpg" width="100" height="76" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jupiter's moon Callisto (NASA). Known as the icy moon.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewimage.cfm?ImageNum=858&RecNum=100&PageType=all"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/neptunefth.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The high-altitude cloud structure on Neptune (Center for Adaptive Optics, UCSC, U.S.A./National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00106"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA00106.jpg" width="100" height="75" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Venus: The mountain Maat Mons. The image is generated from computer data from the spacecraft Magellan, as seen from 3 kilometers (2 miles) above the terrain and 634 km (393 miles) away. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons. </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00254"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA00254.jpg" width="100" height="80" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Venus: The mountain Maat Mons. The image is generated from computer data from the spacecraft Magellan, as seen from 1.7 kilometers (1 mile) above the terrain and 560 kilometers (347 miles) away. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons. </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06013"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/PIA06013-marscrater.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Mars: computer-generated image of the rim of a crater: This false-color image shows visible mineral changes between the materials that make up the rim of the impact crater known as "Endurance." The image was taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using all 13 color filters. The cyan blue color denotes basalts, whereas the dark green color denotes a mixture of iron oxide and basaltic materials. Reds and yellows indicate dusty material containing sulfates. Scientists are very interested in exploring the interior and exterior material around the crater's rim for clues to the processes that formed the crater. (NASA/JPL/Cornell)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00343"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA00343.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Photo of Jupiter taken with NASA's Voyager 2  spacecraft. Colors are enhanced to bring out detail. (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01527"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA01527.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jupiter, close-up, as photographed by the Voyager II spacecraft (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00065"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA00065.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Closeup of the "great red spot" of Jupiter, as photographed by the Voyager spacecraft. The spot is actually a giant storm. (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01384"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA01384.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jupiter, close-up with enhanced colors, as photographed by the Voyager I spacecraft (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01127"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/PIA01127-europa.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, as photographed with the Galileo Orbiter spacecraft in 1998. Colors have been enhanced for visibility. The broken, fractured ice on Europa's surface may have liquid water beneath it. Some believe life may lie within. The whiter area is believed to be a region that has been blanketed by dust from ice particles ejected when a large crater was formed (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00400"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/browse/PIA00400.jpg" width="100" height="143" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Saturn as photographed by the Voyager II spacecraft. Its moon Mimas is visible as a tiny black dot against Saturn's cloud tops near the left horizon just below the rings. The big gap in the rings, called the Cassini Division (after its discoverer), is a 3500-km wide region (2200 mi, almost the width of the United States) that is much less populated with ring particles than the brighter B and A rings to either side of the gap. (Image from NASA Planetary Photojournal)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02230"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA02230.jpg" width="100" height="85" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The northern hemisphere of Saturn as photographed by NASA's Voyager I spacecraft in 1980 at a distance of 9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles), showing a variety of features in Saturn's clouds. (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01486"><img border="0" src="http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/thumb/PIA01486.jpg" width="100" height="78" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this picture from the Voyager II spacecraft as subtle color variations that can be recorded with special computer-processing techniques. This highly enhanced color view was assembled from several images obtained Aug. 17 from a distance of 8.9 million kilometers (5.5 million miles). (NASA/JPL)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00; padding-top: 10"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>UNDERSEA HABITATS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur03015.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur03015.jpg" width="100" height="136" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Coral reef (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/U.S. Department of Commerce)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur03008.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur03008.jpg" width="100" height="91" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Coral reef life (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/U.S. Department of Commerce)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur01011.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur01011.jpg" width="100" height="80" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jellyfish preying on plankton (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/U.S. Department of Commerce)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/coral/coral.html"><img border="0" src="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/db_coral0181.jpg" width="100" height="85" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A clownfish browses a coral reef. (U.S. Geological Survey)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/db_coral0221.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/db_coral0221.jpg" width="100" height="61" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A coral reef dweller off the Florida coast known as a spanish flag. (U.S. Geological Survey)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="1" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur01508.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/nurp/images/nur01508.jpg" width="100" height="81" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Tube-dwelling polychaete worms. The "arms" are actually tentacles or "radioles." Most of their bodies are hidden within tubes they have made.  (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/U.S. Department of Commerce)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>BUTTERFLIES</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/Education/Nature/butterfly.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/Education/Nature/butterfly.jpg" width="100" height="98" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Butterflies (U.S. Geological Survey)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://news.fws.gov/images/1666MornarchButterflyByGlenSmart.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://news.fws.gov/images/1666MornarchButterflyByGlenSmart.jpg" width="100" height="98" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Monarch butterflies at the DeSoto refuge along the Missouri River on the Nebraska-Iowa border in the midwestern U.S.A. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://northeast.fws.gov/images/karnerhi.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://northeast.fws.gov/images/karnerhi.jpg" width="100" height="84" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Endangered Karner blue butterfly from New York State, U.S.A. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="29" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.doi.gov/intl/itap/images/butterfly2.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.doi.gov/intl/itap/images/butterfly2.jpg" width="100" height="146" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Butterfly  (U.S. Department of the Interior)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewimage.cfm?ImageNum=777&RecNum=316&PageType=all"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/monarchrsh3th.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Monarch butterfly larva (Jason Hill, University of Minnesota; From U.S. National Science Foundation website)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/images/galeriafotos/mariposa1.jpg"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/Foto4_fauna-butterfly.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Morpho butterfly, Costa Rica<i> </i>(Costa Rica Tourism Board <a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/galeriafotos/fauna.asp#">Photo Gallery</a>)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>EARTH AS SEEN FROM SPACE</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="http://members.aol.com/scipage/iss.mtetna.sm.bgblack.jpg" width="100" height="82" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"><font size="2">Twin plumes of smoke and ash shoot up from Mt. Etna in Sicily. The image was recorded by International Space Station astronauts on July 22, 2001. (NASA) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/silverstream/pages/pgImageDisplay.html?CollectionID=36"><img border="0" src="http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/Image?id=540" width="100" height="121" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Satellite photograph of the Himalaya Mountains, from the U.S. Geological Survey's "Earth as Art" collection</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/silverstream/pages/pgImageDisplay.html?CollectionID=36"><img border="0" src="http://edcw2ks15.cr.usgs.gov:8090/imagegallery/Image?id=528" width="100" height="114" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Satellite photograph of the Colima Volcano, Mexico, from the U.S. Geological Survey's "Earth as Art" collection</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.geographicguide.com/earth-nasa/tibet.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.geographicguide.com/earth-nasa/tibet.jpg" width="100" height="76" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Satellite photograph of the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalaya Mountains, demonstrating the striking difference between the geological features on each side of the border between India and China. Site of the ongoing collision of two of the world's great continental plates. (NASA)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/asia.html"><img border="0" src="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/thumbnails/jordan_t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Jordan, satellite photo: Meandering wadis combine to form dense, branching networks across the stark, arid landscape of southeastern Jordan. The Arabic word "wadi" means a gully or streambed that typically remains dry except after drenching, seasonal rains. (U.S. Geological Survey "Earth As Art" image gallery) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001444.html"><img border="0" src="http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/SMALL/GPN-2000-001444.jpg" width="100" height="103" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The Earth as photographed by a U.S. weather satellite in 1992 during Hurricane Andrew. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/asia.html"><img border="0" src="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/thumbnails/syrian_t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Syrian desert, satellite photo: Between the fertile Euphrates River valley and the cultivated lands of the eastern Mediterranean coast, the Syrian Desert covers parts of modern Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. (U.S. Geological Survey "Earth As Art" image gallery) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/europe.html"><img border="0" src="http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/thumbnails/fjords_t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">West Fjords, Iceland, satellite photo: The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half the country's coastline. (U.S. Geological Survey "Earth As Art" image gallery) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/images/Earth/hurelena.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/images/Earth/hurelenasm.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Hurricane Elena (from NASA's <a href="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/sweethome.html">Earth From Space</a> gallery)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/images/Earth/currents.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/images/Earth/currentssm.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Ocean currents (from NASA's <a href="http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/sweethome.html">Earth From Space</a> gallery)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/uv.html"><img border="0" src="http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/uvEarth_ap16.jpg" width="100" height="83" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The Earth as seen in ultraviolet light. The image was taken by a camera left on the Moon by the crew of the Apollo 16 spacecraft. The part of the Earth facing the Sun reflects much ultraviolet light. Even more interesting is the side facing away from the Sun, where bands of ultraviolet emission also appear. They are the result of aurora caused by charged particles given off by the Sun, that spiral towards the Earth along its magnetic field lines. (NASA)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>FRACTALS - Patterns repeated at every size scale, existing both in nature and as human-made designs</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=35"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/spikesth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Spikes" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=35"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/neurons5th.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Neurons 5" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=35"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/onstrings2th.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Things on Strings 2" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=34"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/beehivepoolsth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Beehive pools" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=1"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/blueswth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Blue Swirl" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=35"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/goldenhoneycombth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Golden honeycomb" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=34"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/greenbuginbronzeth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Green bug in bronze" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=35"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/goldenhoneycombth.jpg" width="100" height="90" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">"Golden honeycomb" (Francis Griffin/National Science Foundation)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>VOLCANOES AND VOLCANIC ACTIVITY</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/images/gallery/37.htm"><img border="0" src="http://www.nmnh.si.edu/minsci/images/rotate/37.gif" width="100" height="63" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii (Photo by Paul Kimberly. Image from Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of Natural History website.)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/etna/etna02/index-en.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/etna/etna02/icons/intronorth.jpg" width="100" height="194" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Mt. Etna, flank eruption, 2002 (from <a href="http://www.educeth.ch/stromboli/etna/etna02/index-en.html">Stromboli Online</a>)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/erupt/1983to1986.html"><img border="0" src="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/gallery/kilauea/erupt/24ds064_S.jpg" width="100" height="63" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. (U.S. Geological Survey/Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://dls.fws.gov/DATA/files/9B31E067-65B8-D693-75A8E74EE968F6FF.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://images.fws.gov/DATA/thumbs/9B31E067-65B8-D693-75A8E74EE968F6FF.jpg" width="100" height="67" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Isanotski Peaks Volcano, Unimak Island, Alaska (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="20" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/SlideSet/44.jpg"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/helens-fireweed.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A plant known as fireweed was one of the first living things to make a comeback after a deadly 1980 eruption at Mt. St. Helens, Washington State, U.S.A. (Photo by Lynn Topinka, 1984. Photo from website of <a href="http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/">U.S.Geological Survey/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington</a> ) </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>FROGS!</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/images/galeriafotos/RANA2b.jpg"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/Foto6_fauna-redfrog.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Poisonous red frog, Costa Rica<i> </i>(Costa Rica Tourism Board <a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/galeriafotos/fauna.asp#">Photo Gallery</a>)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/images/galeriafotos/RANA2b.jpg"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/F28_fauna_grande-frog.bmp" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Frog, Costa Rica<i> </i>(Costa Rica Tourism Board <a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/galeriafotos/fauna.asp#">Photo Gallery</a>)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/galeriafotos/fauna1.asp#"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/Foto26_fauna-frog.bmp" width="100" height="101" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Frog, Costa Rica<i> </i>(Costa Rica Tourism Board <a href="http://www.visitcostarica.com/ict/paginas/galeriafotos/fauna.asp#">Photo Gallery</a>)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/camericafrog.gif" width="100" height="138" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"><font size="2">Red-eyed tree frog of Central America (U.S. Dept. of Energy)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.sciencecenter.ak.blm.gov/incpa/v-tour/images/sld001b.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.sciencecenter.ak.blm.gov/incpa/v-tour/images/sld001b.jpg" width="100" height="85" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Purple frog (Image: Campbell Creek Science Center, Alaska, U.S.A.)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/frog-chile.bmp" width="100" height="82" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left" lowsrc="../sci-images-images/frog-chile.bmp"><font size="2">Frog, Chile<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>FAMOUS SPACE IMAGES</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://point.worldtel.net.pk/wallpaper/telescope/Hubble%20Eagle%20Nebula%20wide%20field%25"><img border="0" src="http://point.worldtel.net.pk/wallpaper/telescope/thumbnails/thumbHubble%20Eagle%20Nebula%20wide%20field%2004086y.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Eagle Nebula, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/12/caption.html"><img border="0" src="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/12/hodge301/9912t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Multiple generations of stars in the Tarantula nebula: Near the edge of the most active starburst region in the local universe lies a cluster of brilliant, massive stars, known to astronomers as Hodge 301. Hodge 301, seen in the lower right hand corner of this image, is located at the edge of the Tarantula Nebula.  (<a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a>)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1130000/images/_1134888_nebula150.jpg" width="100" height="120" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"><font size="2">Cat's Eye Nebula, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A. The Cat's Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula. This nebula formed about 1,000 years ago when a fast "stellar wind" of gas blown off the central star created the elongated shell of dense, glowing gas. This structure is embedded inside two larger lobes of gas blown off the star at an earlier phase. [ Image: J. P. Harrington and K. J. Borkowski (University of Maryland), and NASA]<br> <br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/gallery/image_gallery/universe/graphics/hourglass.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.greatdreams.com/eye/hourgls.jpg" width="100" height="120" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Hourglass Nebula, a type of object known as a planetary nebula. When a star such as the Sun starts to die it becomes red and expands into a giant star. The old star will eventually eject its outer layers. The gaseous shell is illuminated by the dense stellar core, which is now exposed. We see the illuminated gas as a planetary nebula. ( Image: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.bricengineeredsystems.com/Hubble.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.bricengineeredsystems.com/Hubble.jpg" width="100" height="82" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Nebula, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/01/big.html"><img border="0" src="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/01/ngc4214/9901t.gif" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The Ring Nebula, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A, the most famous of all planetary nebulae. In this image, the telescope has looked down a tunnel of gas cast off by a dying star thousands of years ago. This photo reveals elongated dark clumps of material embedded in the gas at the edge of the nebula, and the dying central star floating in a blue haze of hot gas.  (<a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a>)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html"><img border="0" src="http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/28/nebulaic418/0028t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Planetary nebula IC 418, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A. It lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lepus. A planetary nebula represents the final stage in the evolution of a star similar to our Sun, as it runs out of fuel and ejects its outer layers into spacer. (<a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a>)<br> <br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/05/big.html"><img border="0" src="http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/05/mz3/0105t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The "ant nebula" (<a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a>)<br> <br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html"><img border="0" src="http://heritage.stsci.edu/2000/10/ngc1999/0010t.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The reflection nebula NGC 1999. Like fog around a street lamp, a reflection nebula shines only because the light from an embedded source illuminates its dust; the nebula does not emit any visible light of its own.  (<a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html">Hubble Heritage Image Gallery</a>)<br> <br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="http://www.visitwimberley.com/sky/images/hubble-galaxymg.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"><font size="2">Galaxy NGC 1512, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A. (STScI & Dan Maoz)<br> <br> <br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.rit.edu/~930www/Proj/NewsEvents/2003/Jan02/images/hubble.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.cosmopediaonline.com/imagenes/galaxias/Hubble/05-04-01.jpg" width="100" height="116" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The "Whirlpool" galaxy M51, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html"><img border="0" src="http://aaoj.homestead.com/files/sombrero_vlt.jpg" width="100" height="94" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">The "Sombrero" Galaxy M104, imaged with Hubble Space Telescope, U.S.A.<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF NATURAL PROCESSES</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=58"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/orbitinghole2th.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Black hole merger: computer simulation of the ripples in space-time created by the merger of two black holes. Second image in a series (Courtesy Ed Seidel ; Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Werner Benger – Zuse Institute, Berlin; and AEI. Image from National Science Foundation website)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=58"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/orbitinghole3th.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Black hole merger: computer simulation of the ripples in space-time created by the merger of two black holes. Fourth image in a series (Courtesy Ed Seidel ; Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Werner Benger – Zuse Institute, Berlin; and AEI. Image from National Science Foundation website)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=58"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/orbitinghole4th.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Black hole merger: computer simulation of the ripples in space-time created by the merger of two black holes. Fifth image in a series (Courtesy Ed Seidel ; Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics; Werner Benger – Zuse Institute, Berlin; and AEI. Image from National Science Foundation website)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.bec.nist.gov/gallery.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/taglance/bose.jpg" width="100" height="121" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Simulation of a Bose Einstein condensate, an unusual form of matter consisting of millions of atoms all at exactly the same energy level, behaving exactly alike. (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.pnl.gov/energyscience/01-02/art3.htm"><img border="0" src="http://www.pnl.gov/energyscience/01-02/supernova-sm.gif" width="100" height="114" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Simulation of the density profile of a star after a supernova (exploding star) has gone off, above the top of the image. (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>ROCKS AND MINERALS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/splendortour1.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendor_l_col_1.jpg" width="100" height="149" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A thin section, or slice, of a rock containing phengite and quartz. (From the New York State Museum's <a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/index.html">Splendor In Stone</a> image collection)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendor_p_roc_2a.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendor_p_roc_2a.jpg" width="100" height="149" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A thin section, or slice, of a marble from Naxos, Greece. (From the New York State Museum's <a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/index.html">Splendor In Stone</a> image collection)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendormain.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendormain.jpg" width="100" height="149" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A thin section, or slice, of a mineral-rich rock. (From the New York State Museum's <a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/index.html">Splendor In Stone</a> image collection)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/splendortour8.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendor_l_col_8.jpg" width="100" height="149" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A thin section, or slice, of a rock exhibiting a pattern known as a spiral inclusion trail. The large purple blob is garnet, a mineral. As garnets grow, they can trap nearby grains. These inclusions commonly result in quite striking patterns. This garnet trapped quartz crystals in smoothly curving spiral trails. The pattern suggests the garnet may have rotated as it grew (From the New York State Museum's <a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/index.html">Splendor In Stone</a> image collection)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/splendortour25.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/images/splendor_l_col_25.jpg" width="100" height="149" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A thin section, or slice, of a mineral rock structure known as folded phlogopite. Phlogopite is a member of the mica family. Micas are like stacks of paper in that they have a crystal structure formed by sheets of atoms, which can easily deform and slide past each other.  (From the New York State Museum's <a href="http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/virtual/collections/splendor_in_stone/index.html">Splendor In Stone</a> image collection)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://juneau.ak.blm.gov/images/amthst.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://juneau.ak.blm.gov/images/amthst.jpg" width="100" height="148" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Amethyst, a violet or purple variety of quartz used as an ornamental stone. The name is said to come  from the Greek \na, "not," and methuskein, "to intoxicate," from the old belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness, according to the Web encyclopedia Wikipedia. (Image from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management <a href="http://wwwndo.ak.blm.gov/juneau/POSTER/Poster1.html">Alaska Minerals - Hidden Treasures</a> web gallery)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://juneau.ak.blm.gov/poster/epidote.html"><img border="0" src="http://juneau.ak.blm.gov/images/epdt.jpg" width="100" height="128" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Epidote (From the U.S. Bureau of Land Management <a href="http://wwwndo.ak.blm.gov/juneau/POSTER/Poster1.html">Alaska Minerals - Hidden Treasures</a> web gallery)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="border-bottom-style: ridge; border-bottom-color: #00FF00"><font size="2" color="#00FF00"><b>MORE IMAGES</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/photos/small/E80frontsmall.gif"><img border="0" src="http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/photos/small/E80frontsmall.gif" width="100" height="82" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Gold particle smash into each other at near-light speed. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://snowcover.gsfc.nasa.gov/gra/other/Bentley.00011a_med.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://snowcover.gsfc.nasa.gov/gra/other/Bentley.00011a_med.jpg" width="100" height="98" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Snowflake photographed by W.A. Bentley, who conducted some of the first exhaustive studies of these crystals in the early 1930s. (NASA)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/db_reptiles0022.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/db_reptiles0022.jpg" width="100" height="85" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Scarlet king snake (U.S. Geological Survey/Florida Integrated Science Center)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="4" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://biology.usgs.gov/s+t/lrgimage/f067w04.jpg"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/leaf-footed-bug-bkp.bmp" width="100" height="143" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Leaf-footed bug, U.S.A. (U.S. Geological Survey)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/gallery/aml/Magenta_Microheater.htm"><img border="0" src="http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/gallery/aml/12_NIST_Magenta_Microheater.jpg" width="100" height="100" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">A magenta microheater, a device that can detect toxic gases such as sarin or mustard gas. Slight variations in the thickness of the sensing film covering the microheater cause changes in color that have been enhanced in this micrograph. (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><img border="0" src="../sci-images-images/lhic_mag_field.bmp" width="100" height="69" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"><font size="2">A computer image shows powerful magnetic fields used to accelerate subatomic particles toward each other, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S.A.) ion collider.</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewall.cfm?page=23"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/rivdiatth.jpg" width="100" height="139" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Shells of diatoms, single-celled algae with silica shells (Photo by Hans Paerl; courtesy Univ. of North Carolina’s Endeavors magazine. Image from National Science Foundation website)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/viewimage.cfm?ImageNum=821&RecNum=232&PageType=all"><img border="0" src="http://olpaimages.nsf.gov/admin/images/mitstridera_s.jpg" width="100" height="141" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Ripples created by water striders (<i>gerris remigis</i>) common water walking insects approximately 1 cm (1/2 inch) long, that live on the surface of ponds, rivers, and the open ocean. In this image, a layer of water was sprinkled with the chemical Thymol Blue, which when lit from below enables the ripples to be visualized. (Courtesy John Bush, MIT. Image from National Science Foundation website)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.nps.gov/grca/photos/index.htm"><img border="0" src="http://www.nps.gov/grca/photos/thumbs/T500.jpg" width="100" height="150" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Grand Canyon National Park, U.S.A. (National Park Service/U.S. Department of the Interior)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://dls.fws.gov/DATA/files/1FC895C3-B4E0-4795-8599671A1C0A3326.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://images.fws.gov/DATA/thumbs/1FC895C3-B4E0-4795-8599671A1C0A3326.jpg" width="100" height="77" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in Alaska. An atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force. (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library)<br> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="33%" height="8" style="padding-top: 10"> <p style="padding-top: 10"><a href="http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0665.html"><img border="0" src="http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d2/03574b.jpg" width="100" height="150" style="position: relative; left: -3; border: 2 ridge #FFFFFF" hspace="3" align="left"></a><font size="2">Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in the southern latitudes of the United States in March, 2001. An atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force. 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