I recently came across a very cool program along the lines of Google Earth, except this program lets you fly around and explore all manner of objects and places in outer space.

Here is a demo video I created from the built in demonstration mode within Celestia. I highly recommend that everyone download and try out Celestia.
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It’s kind of sad to me that there are people out there that actually don’t believe that we went to the moon… but I guess it takes all kinds.

For those people, here is a video which claims to refute any of the edicts they cling to and indeed offers proof to the contrary. Still, people are going to believe what they want to believe…
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As a follow up to my previous post of The Most Important Photo Ever Taken, here is a very interesting video illustrating the relative size of planets in our solar system as well as stars throughout the galaxy.

Keep in mind that the smallest body they show is Mercury and at an average height of 5.5′ it would take over 2.9 million humans standing head to toe just to stretch across that tiny planet.

The largest star illustrated is 753,320 times larger than Mercury. It would take 2.185 TRILLION humans standing head to toe to stretch across the diameter of that star, or 364 times the entire population of Earth.
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Just think of all those poor deprived people who only had 9 planets! That must have sucked, because WE have 12!

Well, at least that is what we might all be saying in a week or so after some group of really smart guys tell us whether those rocks floating out in space are planets or not. Interestingly, if I understand correctly, one of them actually orbits Pluto!?! Doesn’t that make it a moon?
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