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"If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species."

-Barbara Marx Hubbard, Distant Star, 1997

(Electronic Magazine of the First Millennial Foundation)

(Via http://www.spacequotes.com/ )

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"Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die."

-Robert Zubrin, Entering Space, 1999

(Via http://www.spacequotes.com/ )

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"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
-Robert Heinlein, speech

(Via http://www.spacequotes.com/ )

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When a large star uses up all of its 'fuel' (typically hydrogen), it begins to collapse onto itself and its core. The pressure continues to build and build, until it finally runs out completely and explodes in a massive explosion called a supernova.

(Image of the Crab Nebula supernova remnants, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crab_Nebula.jpg )

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Along with constellations, there are the zodiacs. The zodiacs are special constellations that have been used for centuries to predict ones future. Depending on your birth date, you are born under a certain zodiac.

(Picture via http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/skytellers/constellations/about.shtml )

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Our night sky is littered with many stars and galaxies. Over the centuries, many people have come to notice patterns in these skies during certain times of the year. Some patterns in the stars, called constellations, are only seen during the winter season, while others are seen during the other 3 seasons.

(Star Chart via http://starryskies.com/ )

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In an estimated 3 billion years, our galaxy, The Milky Way, and another galaxy, Andromeda, are going to collide to form an entirely new type of galaxy; an elliptical galaxy.

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Andromeda & Milky Way Super Galaxy Collision Visualization

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Galaxy Collision- The Milky Way vs Andromeda!

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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are on a collision course! In about 3 billion years, the two galaxies will collide. Then over a span of 1 billion years or so after a very complex gravitational dance, they will merge to form an elliptical galaxy.

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Our sun in our solar system is big, but not the biggest kind of stars that are found in the Milky Way. Many other kinds of stars have been found that are much, much bigger then our own bright little ball.

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Largest star ever discovered, compared to our Sun

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Discovery Channel shows Earth, compared to the Sun, and then to a few other massive stars in our own Milky Way

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In July 1969, NASA sent the first humans to the moon on the rocket, the APOLLO 11.

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As You Remember It: The Lift-Off of APOLLO 11

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In July of 1969, America sent the first humans to the moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins were aboard the mission named Apollo 11. The launch vehicle they rode, the Saturn 5 rocket, is still the most powerful machine ever built.