It can also draw the constellations and simulate astronomical phenomena such as meteor showers, eclipses of the Sun and Moon. Stellarium can be used as an educational tool for teaching the starry sky at night..

Today, NASA has opened a new chapter in our understanding of the moon. Preliminary data from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates that the mission has found water on impact in the region of permanently shadowed Cabeus October 9, 2009, near the lunar south pole.

The impact resulting from LCROSS Centaurupper stage..

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST abbreviated English name from the initials of the Hubble Space Telescope, or just Hubble) is a telescope placed in the outer layers of Earth's atmosphere, about 600 kilometers altitude, in orbit around the Earth (each orbit takes about 92 minutes). It was launched on April 24, 1990 with the Space Shuttle Discovery as a joint project of NASA and European Space Agency.

The telescope can reach an angular resolution better than 0.1 arcseconds..

Cassini-Huygens mission is an interplanetary robotic joint NASA / ESA / ASI, launched on October 15, 1997, with the task of studying the Saturn system, including its moons and its rings. The probe consists of two elements: the Cassini orbiter from NASA and the ESA Huygens lander. Cassini is the first spacecraft to be entered into the orbit of Saturn, the..