SEDS, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, offers The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope and The Nine Planets , an award-wining multimedia overview of our solar system, covering history, mythology and science. SEDS also has links to planetary photos on the Web . The Extra-solar Planets Encyclopedia serves up information and links. The dark skies over the Black Sea showed off the Milky Way and provided an excellent background for the Perseid meteor shower, which recurs every year between July 23 and August 22, usually peaking between August 12-13. The International Meteor Organization site has links to pictures, societies and research .
Meteorite huggers can also buy, trade, sell or auction meteorites.
The Explore Zone provides links to news and Web sites for space buffs. Astronomy isn't just pretty pictures, though. Or you can read up on the Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Check out the news release on JPL's investigation of the largest near-Earth asteroid ever studied in detail. GO bestows the Star Award to the best astronomy sites on the Web and also archives the Planetarian , the quarterly magazine published by the International Planetarium Society.