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ASTRONOMERS,
ASTROPHYSICISTS, &
ASTRONAUTS
Albumasar
Buzz Aldrin
William Anders
Archimedes
Neil Armstrong
Benjamin Banneker
Frank Borman
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Tycho Brahe
Annie Jump Cannon
Giovanni Cassini
Anders Celsius
Roger B. Chaffee
Christoph Clavius
Gordon Cooper
Nicholas Copernicus
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Arthur Eddington
Albert Einstein
Camille Flammarion
John Flamsteed
Yuri Gagarin
Galileo Galilei
Geber
John Glenn
Virgil “Gus” Grissom
Fred Haise
Sir Edmund Halley
Caroline Herschel
William Herschel
Johannes Hevelius
Hipparchus
Jeremiah Horrocks
Edwin Hubble
Christiaan Huygens
Hypatia of Alexandria
James Irwin
Mae Jemison
Johannes Kepler
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Jim Lovell
Percival Lowell
Antonio de Marchena
Bruce McCandless II
Maria Mitchell
Jim McDivitt
Pierre Mechain
Charles-Joseph Messier
Maria Mitchell
August Mobius
Isaac Newton
Major Nikolayev
Lt. Colonel Popovich
Ptolemy
Sally Ride
Carl Sagan
Adam Johann Schall
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Maarten Schmidt
David Scott
Harlow Shapley
Alan Shepard
Rusty Swigert
Taqi al-Din
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
James A. Van Allen
Wernher von Braun
Urbain le Verrier
Ed White
Alfred Worden

CALENDARS

Galaxies Calendar 2010
Galaxies
Calendar 2010




Galaxy NGC
4414 Tshirt

Galaxy Tshirt
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BOOKS ABOUT GALAXIES

Astronomy Today
Astronomy Today: Stars & Galaxies


Galaxies in the Universe
Galaxies
in the Universe


Galaxies & the Cosmic Frontier
Galaxies and the Cosmic Frontier


The Milky Way
The Milky Way


Alchemy of the Heavens
Alchemy
of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the
Milky Way


Creative Process
Science Bookshelf





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Galaxy Educational Astronomy Posters
for the social studies and science classrooms, and home schoolers.

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The Spiral Galaxy (Antlia) PosterGalaxies are large gravitationally bound systems of stars, interstellar gas and dust, plasma and unseen dark matter. There are three main types of galaxies- ellipticals, spirals and irregulars - our planet Earth and Solar System are part of the Milky Way Galaxy, a barred spiral galaxy about 100,000 light years in diameter and 3,000 light years in thickness, containing 3x1011 stars. The Universe contains millions of galaxies. The word “galaxy” is from the Greek term for “milky circle.” In 1610 Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the bright band the night sky and discovered it was made up of faint stars.

Galaxy posters images include the Antenna, Andromeda, Antila Spiral, Centaurus, Cartwheel, Milky Way, Sombrero and Virgo Cluster of galaxies.




Hubble- The Galaxies Poster
Hubble-
The Galaxies Poster

The Galaxies Poster

The Space Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer.
• Looking Deep • Sprial of Stars • Black Holes • Colliding Galaxies • Lenses of Gravity • Gravity at Work

• more Hubble Telescope posters


Galaxies Chart - ©Spaceshots
Galaxies Chart - ©Spaceshots

Galaxies Chart - ©Spaceshots

informational print that is full of illustrations detailing the anatomy of our own Milky Way Galaxy, as well as other galaxies.


Antenna Galaxies Wall Poster
Antenna Galaxies
Wall Poster

Antenna Galaxies

Description: Bursting with color, the Antenna Galaxies are a pair of galaxies undergoing a violent collision some 90 million light years away toward the constellation Corvus. They are known as the ‘Antenna Galaxies’ because two long tails of stars, gas, and dust thrown out of the galaxies as a result of the collision resemble the antennae of an insect. Most galaxies probably undergo at least one significant collision in their lifetime.


Antennae Galaxy - Stellar Fireworks - Poster
Antennae Galaxy - Stellar Fireworks -
Art Print

Stellar Fireworks - The Antennae, a pair of colliding galaxies.


The Spiral Galaxy (Antlia) Poster
The Spiral Galaxy
(Antlia) Poster

The Spiral Galaxy (Antlia) Poster

-a vast pinwheel through space; colorful curling arms, stars, and nebulosity whirling around a white galactic core.


Centaurus A Galaxy Poster
Centaurus A Galaxy
Art Print

Centaurus A Galaxy

Centaurus A (NGC 5128), in the constellation Centaurus, is a star-burst galaxy, or a galaxy in the process of star formation, due to a collision with a spiral galaxy. Centaurus A is about 14 million light-years away and appears as a disk (lenticular) with a dark band. Though is is one of the closest galaxies to Earth it s only visible from low northern latitudes and the southern hemisphere. Centaurus A peculiarity's were first identified by John Herschel, (son and nephew of Caroline and William Herschel), in 1847.

Did you know that the initials NGC stands for New General Catalogue, an index of nearly 8,000 deep sky objects?


A Barred Spiral Galaxy in Fornax Wall Poster
A Barred Spiral Galaxy in Fornax
Wall Poster

A Barred Spiral Galaxy in Fornax- Among the most eye-catching of all galaxies are the spirals, especially barred spirals, of which NGC 1365 is a fine example. ...


Cartwheel Galaxy Fine Art Print When Galaxies Collide, Strange Shapes Arise
Cartwheel Galaxy Fine Art Print

Cartwheel Galaxy
When Galaxies Collide, Strange Shapes Arise

Space Phenomenon posters


Milky Way Chart - ©Spaceshots
Milky Way Chart - ©Spaceshots

Milky Way, National Geographic Society Chart


Milky Way Panoramic - ©Spaceshots
Milky Way Panoramic - ©Spaceshots

Milky Way Panoramic - ©Spaceshots


You Are Here- Milky Way Galaxy Poster
You Are Here- Milky Way Galaxy Poster

You Are Here- Milky Way Galaxy

Carl Sagan quote from a public lecture delivered October 13, 1994 - "Look at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ’superstar,’ every ’supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The earth is the only world so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes, settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps better no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

• Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar
• more Stars Charts posters


Spiral Galaxy NGC 4414 Wall Poster Hubble - June 1999
Spiral Galaxy
NGC 4414
Poster

NASA Spiral Galaxy
NGC 4414


Sombrero Galaxy Wall Poster
Sombrero Galaxy Wall Poster

Sombrero Galaxy Wall Poster

Description: The Sombrero Galaxy, named because it resembles the broad-brimmed Mexican hat, is one of the most famous objects in the sky. The light from this remarkable spiral galaxy is dominated by the billions of old, faint stars that form the vast “bulge” around its tiny, hidden nucleus. The effect is enhanced because the disk of the galaxy is seen edge on, and dust in the outer parts of the disk is seen in silhouette. The galaxy is over 60 million light years away.


Tadpole Galaxy Wall Poster
Tadpole Galaxy
Wall Poster

Tadpole Galaxy
Wall Poster

Description: The Tadpole Galaxy (also known as UGC 10214) is a spiral galaxy that has been violently disrupted by a collision with a smaller companion galaxy, which is visible as the compact, blue object in the upper left corner of the much more massive Tadpole galaxy. Strong gravitational forces from the interaction between the galaxies created the long tail of debris, which is made up of stars and gas that stretch out more than 280,000 light years. Hundreds of blue stars and star clusters are visible in the spiral arms of the galaxy and in the tidal debris tail. The galaxy is backdropped by thousands of faint background galaxies. The Tadpole Galaxy is located some 420 million light years away toward the constellation Draco.


Triangulum Galaxy, Astronomy without Borders Poster - ©Spaceshots
Triangulum Galaxy, Astronomy without Borders Art Print

Triangulum Galaxy, Astronomy without Borders ©Spaceshots

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