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Beyond Our Solar System. What Is Out There??. Our Eyes to the Skies .. Hubble Telescope. Captured Light Telescope. Spitzer Space Telescope. Infra-Red Telescope. Chandra X-Ray Observatory. As We Travel Out. Distances get further and the numbers get mid boggling ….
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Beyond Our Solar System What Is Out There??
Our Eyes to the Skies ..Hubble Telescope Captured Light Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope Infra-Red Telescope
As We Travel Out Distances get further and the numbers get mid boggling … 1 Astronomical unit (au) = 93,000,000 Speed of Light = 186,000 miles per second LIGHT YEAR = 5,865,696,000,000 miles Size of our Solar System = roughly 5 light hours
Nebulas Orion Nebula 1500 light years from Earth
Cat’s Eye nebula Distance - 3300 light years
Crab Nebula 6500 light years from Earth Centered by neutron star
Star Cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud 170,000 light years
Main Sequence StarsOur Closest Star 93,000,000 miles
Our Nearest Star Proxima Centauri 4.2 light years
Novas and SuperNovas Light Echoes from Super Red Giant V838 Remnants of a stellar outburst
Pulsars Twin Orbiting Neutron Stars
Black Holes Dust around the black hole at the center of NGC 4261
Black Hole-Powered Jet of Electrons and Sub-Atomic Particles Streams From Center of Galaxy M87
Our Galaxy Milky Way 100,000 light years 100,000,000,000 stars Our Solar System 25,000 light years from the center
Nearest Large Galaxy Andromeda 2,500,000 light years
Gallery of Amazing Sights Spiral Galaxy M-100
Interacting Galaxies 600 million light years from Earth
Our Universe Observable diameter = 93 billion light years
The Tour Continues Powers of Ten