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| Author: | talanhart [ Tue May 15, 2012 5:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | The size of the sun compared to other stars... |
I know this isn't food related, but this is totally amazing. Make sure you scroll through all the pictures at the top. http://www.brevardastro.org/albums/UniverseScale/photo3.html |
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| Author: | Kathy's Pete [ Tue May 15, 2012 7:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The size of the sun compared to other stars... |
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough! Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned The sun that is the source of all our power Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, Are moving at a million miles a day, In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick, But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point, We go 'round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, In all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth! |
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| Author: | Lindsay [ Wed May 16, 2012 2:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The size of the sun compared to other stars... |
Nova had a fascinating show on the Sun last week -- it's amazing what we've learned in the last 10 years, since we can now actually see all the through to the core. The only problem with Nova is I realize everytime I watch it that stuff I thought was advanced in college is now: a) totally out-of-date or b) considered so simple it's for 8th graders. |
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| Author: | Amy [ Wed May 16, 2012 3:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: The size of the sun compared to other stars... |
There's a solar eclipse this Sunday. We'll get a decent view of it here in Colorado. We're going camping, and our campground should have a great view of it. Amy |
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