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The Cosmic Perspective

Scientific Perspective

[1] Hayden Planetarium 4/2/2007 Neil deGrasse Tyson

[2] BBC - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[3] NPR - Why We Love Aliens

[4] Canada Journal - The Universe Likely Has Many Extinct Civilizations

Psychological Perspective (Consciousness)

[5] Psychology Today - The Cosmic Perspective

[6] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

The Search for Life / Are We Alone?

[7] NASA - Artist's concept showing the exploration of the Kuiper Belt so far

[8] NASA - Beyond the Kuiper Belt - The Oort Cloud

[9] NASA - Follow the water

Ocean Worlds

[10] NASA - The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water - April 7, 2015

[11] JPL/NASA - Infographic - Includes 10 bodies in our solar system that contain vast quantities of liquid water at or below the surface

[12] ScienceAlert - These Ocean Worlds Reveal Just How Little Water We Have Here on Earth

[13] NASA - Does the sun have any water? (Yes)

[14] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

Ceres

[15] JPL/NASA - Dawn - Infrared images - (brightest spots designated Area 5)

[16] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots

[17] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots

[18] National Geographic - The Dwarf Planet Previosuly Known as an Ocean World

[19] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[20] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

[21] JPL/NASA - Center of Occator Crater (enhanced color)

[22] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

[23] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

[24] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Enhanced color

[25] Space.com - Interior layers rendering

[26] EOS.org - Geologically active

[27] JPL/NASA - Ahuna Mons - Side view

[28] phys.org - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic video

[29] Nature - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic images

[30] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater - Side view

[31] JPL/NASA - Ceres - color

[32] JPL/NASA - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[33] Space.com - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[34] JPL/NASA - Dawn Journal - Three-year retrospective

[35] JPL/NASA - Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

Jupiter

[36] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter North Pole

[37] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

[38] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter South Pole

[39] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[40] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[41] JPL/NASA - South Pole Composite

[42] JPL/NASA - Infrared

[43] JPL/NASA - Io color and heat

[44] JPL/NASA - Io closeup

[45] NASA - Io blue plume

[46] JPL/NASA - Io Pele Plume

[47] JPL/NASA - Io hi res plume

[48] JPL/NASA - Io plumes

[49] JPL/NASA - Io Southern Hemisphere

[50] JPL/NASA - Io South Pole

[51] JPL/NASA - Europa color

[52] JPL/NASA - Hubble Sees Recurring Plume Erupting From Europa

[53] JPL/NASA - Europa - Closeup color

[54] JPL/NASA - Europa Clay Prints

[55] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[56] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[57] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[58] JPL/NASA - Callisto

[59] Juno Mission - Moons of Jupiter - Animation

Saturn

[60] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Saturn - Color - Earth and moon (lower right)

[61] JPL/NASA - Rings - Mostly water ice - color

[62] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[63] JPL/NASA - North Pole - Animation

[64] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[65] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

[66] JPL/NASA - Enceladus electrical connection with Saturn

[67] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[68] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[69] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[70] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

[71] JPL/NASA - Enceladus orbital squeeze (featuring Saturn)

[72] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[73] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

[74] Scientific American - Excitement builds for the possibility of life on Enceladus

[75] JPL/NASA - Mimas

[76] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[77] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[78] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[79] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

[80] JPL/NASA - Dione

[81] JPL/NASA - Dione

[82] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[83] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

[84] JPL/NASA - Rhea

[85] JPL/NASA - Rhea

[86] JPL/NASA - Titan - near-infrared wavelengths

[87] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[88] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[89] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

[90] JPL/NASA - Pan

[91] JPL/NASA - Pandora

[92] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[93] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

Uranus

[94] JPL/NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Uranus

[95] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[96] JPL/NASA - Miranda

[97] JPL/NASA - Miranda closeup

[98] JPL/NASA - Miranda more closeup

[99] JPL/NASA - Umbriel

[100] JPL/NASA - Titania

Neptune

[101] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

[102] JPL/NASA - Triton color

[103] JPL/NASA - Triton color map

[104] JPL/NASA - Triton color video

[105] JPL/NASA - Triton closeup

[106] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[107] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

Pluto

[108] NASA - New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon; Sunrise/Sunset Observations

[109] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

[110] NASA - Pluto's orientation with the equator

[111] JPL/NASA - Pluto and Charon enhanced color

[112] NASA - Pluto's size

[113] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[114] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[115] JPL/NASA - Pluto color

[116] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[117] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[118] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

[119] JPL/NASA - Pluto cryovolcano (Wright Mons)

[120] NASA - APOD - 'snakeskin' terrain - color

[121] Space.com - Pluto water

[122] NASA - Pluto haze layers

[123] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[124] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[125] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

[126] JPL/NASA - Pluto North Pole - Color

[127] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

[128] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

[129] Brown U. - Futurity.org - Pluto ocean

[130] The Guardian - Pluto ocean

[131] New York Times - Pluto ocean

Panspermia Theory

[132] Panspermia Theory

Asteroids and Comets / Meteors and Meteorites

[133] National Geographic - Stardust mission - comet tail dust may be extrasolar

[134] CBS News - Chelyabinsk meteor - 2/15/2013

[135] Time - (Chelyabinsk) Meteorite pulled from Russian lake is one of the world's biggest - October 2013

[136] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - Extraterrestrial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims

[137] NASA - 3000 Comets for SOHO - Time-lapse animation - Kreutz Comets (in red) are the fastest objects in the solar system, traveling 0.2 light speed before they disappear into the sun

[138] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

[139] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth

[140] JPL/NASA - Asteroid Ida and satellite Dactyl - Color

[141] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

[142] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid with different angle

[143] brucegary.net - Comet ISON - Bruce Gary (retired professional astronomer)

[144] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

[145] NBC News - Comet ISON - Before perihelion

[146] CNN - Comet ISON - Before perihelion videos

[147] earthsky.org - SDO coverage planned at perihelion

[148] NASA - Comet ISON - After perihelion - One week after perihelion, there was a formal meeting at JHU, but the afternoon portion, discussing dust and gas data both before and after perihelion, was not broadcast. The SDO broadcast at perihelion, which failed to resolve any discernible aspects of the comet, was not discussed.

[149] YouTube - Suspicious0bservers - SDO signal loop prevented NASA scientists from seeing comet ISON at perihelion

[150] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

[151] NASA - Anomalies around the stereo spacecraft 5/29/2016

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko / Rosetta Mission

[152] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[153] NASA - Atmosphere

[154] ESA - Philae close up

[155] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[156] LA Times - Oxygen found

[157] The Guardian - Oxygen found

[158] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - Color

[159] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[160] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

Ball of Fire or Flourescent Light?

[161] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

[162] Space Weather News - 24hr. video loops from Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite system (GOES), speed and density graphs, predictive graphs

[163] NASA - SDO - The Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

[164] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Electric Universe Theory - Pros and Cons

[165] Electric Universe Theory

[166] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[167] NASA - APOD - Coronal Crown During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[168] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

[169] ESA - Hershel - Oort Cloud - Note toroidal shape

[170] - astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[171] - torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[172] rationalwiki.org - Electric Universe Theory as Pseudo-science

[173] physics.stackexchange.com - How to Debunk the Electric Universe

Inner Rocky Planets

[174] Space.com - The Inner Planets

Mercury

[175] NASA - Mercury Solar Transit - May 9, 2016, as viewed from Boyertown, Pennsylvania

[176] spaceref.com - NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington - Colorful crater

[177] NASA - North Pole water ice

Venus

[178] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

Earth

[179] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

[180] NASA - Captured asteroid

[181] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[182] BBC - Extremophile Tardigrades

[183] Washington Post - These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

Mars

[184] phys.org - ISRO - Mars Orbiter Mission - First colour image

[185] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[186] ISRO - Images from colour camera

[187] spaceref.com - ISRO - Images of Phobos and Martian atmosphere

[188] ESA - Past habitability

[189] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

[190] JPL/NASA - Mars clouds

[191] UAHiRise - Mars gullies

[192] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

[193] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[194] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[195] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

[196] UAHirise - Textured surface - color

[197] UAHirise - Textured surface - color

[198] JPL/NASA - North polar cap

[199] NASA - South polar cap

[200] NASA - South polar texture

[201] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - South polar texture

[202] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[203] marsanomalyresearch.com - South polar anomaly

[204] JPL/NASA - Rectangles with wiggly sides near south polar cap

[205] JPL/NASA - Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar - Near south polar cap

[206] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

[207] JPL/NASA - Pit or impact crater next to very dark textured area

[208] JPL/NASA - Purple surface features

[209] JPL/NASA - Color strips from an area described as "a future interplanetary park"

[210] NASA - Subsurface water

[211] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks - Curiosity rover sol 707

[212] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[213] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

[214] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Mud cracks

[215] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[216] ESA - Gusev Crater colour

[217] JPL//NASA - Evidence of past water

[218] NASA - Curiosity rover - Mars covered with organic material

[219] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[220] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[221] JPL/NASA - UAP over Mt. Sharp

[222] JPL/NASA - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[223] JPL/NASA - "Jelly doughnut" anomaly

[224] JPL/NASA - Surface anomaly (upper left)

[225] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[226] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[227] JPL/NASA - Meteorite imaged by Curiosity rover

[228] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[229] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation - context image

Extrasolar Systems

[230] Washington Post - Four Alien Planets Orbiting Nearby Star - (scroll down for gif)

[231] Universe Today - Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star (2011)

[232] UCSC.edu - Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf

[233] NASA - Astrobiology - The Ever More Puzzling and Intriguing “Tabby’s Star”

[234] Space.com - 'Alien megastructure' star is dimming again

[235] Chandra / Harvard.edu - Scroll down for video of implications for life

Alpha Centauri

[236] NASA - Hubble space telescope (HST) - Alpha Centauri A&B

[237] NASA - Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of nearest star system

[238] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

[239] New York Times - Planet orbiting our closest neighbor

[240] NPR - Why the discovery of an earth-like planet is such a big deal

Trappist-1

[241] NASA - Press release - 2/22/2017

[242] New York Times - The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding

[243] NASA - Trappist-1 - Older than our solar system

[244] National Geographic - Hubble space telescope (HST) examines exoplanet atmospheres

Speaking, Listening & Looking / Contact

[245] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[246] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

[247] Universe Today - Either stars are strange or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us

[248] National Geographic - Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

[249] CNET - Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive - scroll down for gif of the signal graph

[250] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication (in every spectrum not just hydrogen)

[251] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos - BBC - Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations

[252] Futurism - Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens

[253] Business Insider - Edward Snowden Talks Alien Communication with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[254] Daily Galaxy - Listening for Aliens - Star Talk Radio - Neil deGrasse Tyson

[255] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seeking Intelligent Life

[256] New York Times - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data - (Does not include moons)