Images Dated 13th August 2008

Comparing planetary systems, artwork

Comparing planetary systems. Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri (a Sun-like system, left) and the Cha (upper right) planetary systems. The latter, a small brown dwarf star system, has been studied with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Although the brown dwarf is a failed star, it is thought that the disk found surrounding it might one day form planets like those shown here. Cha is only about eight times the mass of Jupiter, and is 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. This work was published in 2005

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Amelia Earhart at Southampton in 1928 with Stultz and Gordon

Amelia Earhart became famous by being a passenger on a flight from America to Britain in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m; it made headline news worldwide. She was a pilot herself and later made several record breaking flights of her own, but went missing over the Pacific in 1937

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Apollo Landing Site Chart

S (March 1972) --- With four of the six planned lunar missions completed, this chart has been prepared to show the various areas of the lunar "nearside" to be visited by astronauts representing the NASA Apollo program. Apollo's 11, 12, 14 and 15 are shown at their respective landing points. Apollo 16 and Apollo 17, planned for later this year at Descartes and Taurus Littrow, respectively, also are depicted on the map