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Question: How much would a teaspoon of a Neutron Star weighh? Answer: About a billion tons!

We'll be answering questions like these in the Space Exploration Gallery of the Discovery Center for Science and Technology. This will be just one of 5 galleries in the new science center: How Things Work, Space Exploration, Energy and the Environment, Health and Biotech, and People-to-People Communication.

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Astronomy For Kids presents facts about different celestial objects, sp ave exploration, and a dictionary. This site is a project of KidsOutaControl, a group providing quality educational resources for K-6 children/

Liftoff describes space science, exploration and related subjects. It is a product of the Marshall space flight center and is suitable for teens and older.

NASA KIDS is an animated site with puzzles and games in addition to earth science and space science topics. it is a product of science@NASA and is suitable for elementary age children.

The Nine Planets gives an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, and some have sounds and movies. Most provide references to additional related information.

Reading the Sky
http://www.earthsky.com/Features/Skywatching/

Space Flight
http://www.spacewander.com/METRIC/metric.html

Space Tour
http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/virtualspacetour/

Interactive Mars Habitat
http://www.exploremarsnow.org/

View of Earth from Space
http://www.fourmilab.to/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p

At Home Astronomy
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/

Do-It-Yourself Astronomy
http://www.iolaks.com/softech/astro/astro.htm

Bad Astronomy - Unveiling Misconceptions About Astronomy
http://www.badastronomy.com/

Virtual Science Center
http://www.chabotspace.org/vsc/

Virtual Tour of the Universe
http://library.thinkquest.org/28327/

Arty the Astronaut Interactive Space Page
http://www.artyastro.com/artyastro.htm

The Space Place
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/index.shtml

Solar Center Activities
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/activities.html

Comets!
http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/CometsTale/com.html

Shuttle Countdown
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/countdown/

Virtual Tour of the Sun
http://www.michielb.nl/od95/

JPL - NASA's lead center for robotic exploration of the solar system
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/