I. BLACK HOLES - TUTORIALS, FAQ's AND IMAGES

Black holes are very interesting inter stellar objects. Our tutorial links below explain the details:

• Black Holes (Introduction)
• Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars ("..Ever wonder what it would look like to travel to a black hole? A neutron star? If so, you might find this page interesting. Here you will find descriptions and MPEG movies that take you on such exciting trips. These movies are scientifically accurate computer animations made with strict adherence to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity...")
• Falling Into a Black Hole ("..In which we fall into a black
  hole on a real free fall orbit. All distortions of images are
  real, both general relativistic from the gravitational bending of light, and special relativistic from the near light speed orbit. The black hole belongs to a quadruple stellar system, a binary . The system is fictional, but plausible...")
• Black Holes (Easy explained. 10-page beginners tutorial with images)
• Black Holes FAQ
• Frequently Asked Questions About Black Holes (Detailed)
• Usenet Relativity FAQ
• Black Holes ("..of galaxy NGC4261, 45 million light years from Earth...It is suspected that there is a black hole at the center of this image...")
• M82's Middle Mass Black Hole (Image and a brief explanation)
• Too Close to a Black Hole (Image and a brief explanation)
• IAC Researchers Show That A Black Hole Was Created Following The Explosion Of A Supermassive Star (Animation)
• and more...

II. BLACK HOLE - TEACHERS RESOURCES

This section may covers everything you need as a teacher to teach about black holes:

• Black Hole Lesson
• No Escape: The Truth About Black Holes - Teacher Page: Grab Bag
• "Do black holes fit into my curriculum?" - Black holes find a natural home in the classroom...
• and more...

III. MILKY WAY - TUTORIALS, IMAGES & PROJECTS

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs to the larger ones. Below are many tutorials and images about it:

• The Milky Way - our galaxy (Educational Guide)
• A custom image for a reset button? (and other notes on reset buttons)
• The Shape of the Milky Way ("..Given all the millennia that humans have been observing the night sky, one might expect that the structure of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is well known. However, it turns out that our understanding of our own sun's place among other stars of the Milky Way has been uncovered only relatively recently, and is still somewhat incomplete..." - Tutorial)
• The Galactic Center ("..What lurks at the center of our
  galaxy? From the vantage point of some 30 thousand light years away it is difficult to determine. Intervening dust obscures the core, making it invisible to optical telescopes. Radiation in far-infrared and radio regions of the spectrum are less affected by dust and thus are better able to reveal some of the striking phenomena at the Galactic Center...")
• Milky Way could hold remnants of last galactic 'meal' ("..Some celestial detective work strongly suggests that the Milky Way consumed a smaller galaxy billions of years ago. And relics of the massive meal could still exist in our galaxy, astronomers said..." - Article)
• A Bubbling Galaxy Center (Image and a brief explanation)
• Astronomy Tutorial - The Structure of the Milky Way (with images)
• The Milky Way ("..These are two wide angle photographs of the Milky Way taken in the 1953. The camera itself is located at the apex of the tripod and is looking down at the spherical mirror, giving it a field of view of up to 150 degrees..")
• Multiwavelength Milky Way Maps ("..This "Education" portion of the Multiwavelength Milky Way Project is intended primarily for use by educators, students, and the general public...")
• Milky Way images & information
• Milky Way Galaxy: VRML model (Multimedia)
• GAIA, A project to explore our Milky Way
• Milky Way Images from Sommers-Bausch Observatory (Very beautiful images)
• Within the Milky Way (Beautiful images)
• and more...