The Tenuous Link

Maybe you have a fancy media center type of computer, and want to show off the lovely slide show but the photos of your last beach holiday don't quite hold enough attention?

Download these desktop sized pics from the Hubble Space telescope, press play, and then say "wow": http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/wallpaper/

It's a real lost opportunity that they haven't at least embedded the names of all the objects in the pictures, but they are educational. I think I've convinced Emma that planets are not "stars that have cooled down"!