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How BIG is the Universe? A Photographic Tour

How BIG is the Universe? A Photographic Tour. Apollo 17 Lunar Rover (scale: a few metres). Space Shuttle, Columbia (scale: 100 metres). Barringer Crater, Arizona (1.2 km diam, 200 m deep - 50 m diam asteroid at 11 km/s). Earth (diam 12,756 km). Cloud covered Venus (0.95 Earth diameters).

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How BIG is the Universe? A Photographic Tour

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  1. How BIG is the Universe?A Photographic Tour

  2. Apollo 17 Lunar Rover(scale: a few metres)

  3. Space Shuttle, Columbia(scale: 100 metres)

  4. Barringer Crater, Arizona(1.2 km diam, 200 m deep - 50 m diam asteroid at 11 km/s)

  5. Earth(diam 12,756 km)

  6. Cloud covered Venus(0.95 Earth diameters)

  7. Mercury(0.38 Earth diameters)

  8. The Moon(0.27 Earth diameters)

  9. The Sun(diam 1 392 000 km or 109 Earth diameters,distance 150 000 000 km or 1 astronomical unit - 1 AU)

  10. Eclipse of the Sun by the Moon as seen from Antarctica(both subtend almost exactly the same angle of half a degree at the Earth)

  11. Mars - the Red Planet(0.53 Earth diam)

  12. Surface of Mars

  13. Phobos and Deimos(max lengths 28 and 16 km)

  14. Orbits of the planets to scale

  15. Asteroid Gaspra(20 km long)

  16. Jupiter and its Great Red Spot (11.2 Earth diam,distance 5.2 AU)

  17. Jupiter’s cloud belts as seen by the Cassini spacecraft

  18. Jupiter with (top to bottom)Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto

  19. Io and its sulphur volcanoes(0.28 Earth diam, 1.04 Moon diam)

  20. Ganymede, largest moonin the Solar System (0.41 Earth diam,1.51 Moon diam)

  21. Not all Jupiter’s moons are large:Thebe (100 km), Amalthea (270 km max) and Metis (40 km)

  22. Saturn and its beautiful rings(9.4 Earth diam at 9.6 AU)

  23. Orbits of the planets to scale

  24. Uranus, the tilted planet(4.0 Earth diamat 19.2 AU)

  25. Neptune(3.9 Earth diamat 30.1 AU)

  26. Pluto and Charon - double planet(0.18 and 0.09 Earth diam1.54 Earth diam apartat 29.7 to 49.4 AU from Sun)

  27. Comet Hale-Bopp in March 1997A comet tail can be over 1 AU long,but its nucleus measures only a few km across

  28. Comet Halley and the Milky Way

  29. Southern Pinwheel Galaxy15 million light years away and similar to the Milky Way

  30. How the Milky Way might look seen edge-on Sun 160 million light years

  31. Size of the Milky Way Galaxy

  32. Sombrero Galaxy

  33. Whirlpool Galaxy

  34. Andromeda Galaxy(2.5 million light years away -most distant naked eye object)

  35. Giant Elliptical Galaxy M87in Virgo Cluster50 million light years away

  36. Virgo Cluster of Galaxies1500 galaxies9 million light years across50 million light years away

  37. ComaCluster

  38. Hubble Deep Field showing galaxies over 10 billion light years away (looking back in time to near the beginning of the universe)

  39. How the Milky Way might look seen edge-on Sun 160 million light years

  40. The Milky Way as seen from Australia(Notice the pink nebulae where new stars are forming)

  41. Milky Way with Faulkes Telescope in Australia in foreground

  42. The constellation of Orionand the Milky Way(The bright stars we see here are no more than a few hundred light years away) Betelgeuse Rigel OrionNebula

  43. Orion Nebulaa small star forming region about 1 light year across

  44. New solar systems forming in Orion

  45. New stars forming in pillars of molecular hydrogen and dust that are light years in length (in Eagle Nebula)

  46. Pleiades and Hyadesstar clusters(with Jupiter and Saturn)

  47. Betelgeuse - a Red Supergiant star(big enough to reach the orbit of Jupiter)

  48. Life Cyclesof Stars in Outline

  49. Helix Planetary Nebula (1.5 light years across) White dwarf star(remains of core of star and about size of the Earth) Planetary nebula(remains of outer layers of star)

  50. Cat’s Eye Planetary Nebula and white dwarf(A solar mass white dwarf would be only as big as the Earth)

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