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This artist's concept puts solar system distances in perspective. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance. One AU is the distance from the sun to the Earth, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune, the most distant planet from the sun, is about 30 AU.
Informally, the term "solar system" is often used to mean the space out to the last planet. Scientific consensus, however, says the solar system goes out to the Oort Cloud, the source of the comets that swing by our sun on long time scales. Beyond the outer edge of the Oort Cloud, the gravity of other stars begins to dominate that of the sun.
The inner edge of the main part of the Oort Cloud could be as close as 1,000 AU from our sun. The outer edge is estimated to be around 100,000 AU.
NASA's Voyager 1, humankind's most distant spacecraft, is around 125 AU. Scientists believe it entered interstellar space, or the space between stars, on Aug. 25, 2012. Much of interstellar space is actually inside our solar system. It will take about 300 years for Voyager 1 to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud and possibly about 30,000 years to fly beyond it.
Alpha Centauri is currently the closest star to our solar system. But, in 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will be closer to the star AC +79 3888 than to our own sun. AC +79 3888 is actually traveling faster toward Voyager 1 than the spacecraft is traveling toward it.
The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA's Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
For more information about Voyager, visit: www.nasa.gov/voyager and voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARS) just after sunset on March 12, 2013. Shot from Henry Coe State Park using a Nikon D600 attached to a Celestron EdgeHD 11 telescope.
Jovian System from LaVale Lions Memorial Field, LaVale, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2021-09-07). www.nicolesharp.net/
This is a stitch-together of 5 shots, and here are the techy-stats: f/0, 1/50th second exposure time, ISO 400. I've always thought that the waxing-half of the moon has more interesting features to look at than the waning half, including the Pallus Somni, that of 6-sided sort-of-diamond-shaped plateau on the upper-left portion of the shot. It was this deatil that first jumped out at me the very first time I looked through a real telescope and I've been hooked ever since.
Project 365
26 MAR 2011
A scene from a diorama I found at our local Y. Neptune. Not terribly exciting, but it is a nice shade of blue.
Blog post (including a tangent about Pluto's loss of planet status) here.
Jupiter with Io, taken with a 16" F/4.6 Newtonian reflector. About 700 frames stacked and processed with RegiStax. Imaging Source 640 X 480 b&w video camera.
Jupiter, Aug 21. I don't know how much better I can shoot this planet....but I intend to keep trying to see what else I can get.
Jupiter, from about 10-10:30 pm PDT. Images made from video frames stacked and processed with RegiStax. 8" F/6 telescope and 1.8X Barlow, Imaging Source video camera. Twin shadows of Europa and Ganymede.
Jovian System from LaVale Lions Memorial Field, LaVale, Allegany, Maryland, USA (2021-09-07). www.nicolesharp.net/
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Spent 24 hours of class time over 3 days while on assignment learning about straw and solar.... William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Coming into focus... Still not close to the quality of my images from the last apparition, but this is my best image so far from the 2015/16 apparition of Jupiter. Slightly better seeing today, and Jupiter's increasing apparent size and brightness made for an improved result over recent images.
Two images from 5000-frame avis (50% stacked) combined in WinJUPOS. Nexstar 6SE scope with Neximage camera and 2x Barlow.
Jupiter was magnitude -1.99 and 35.1" in diameter.
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
via Instagram ift.tt/2py9VmG Our “no gifts Christmas” still managed to include a few. My mom went space case and got me this solar system necklace and a matching solar system bath bomb set (!!!). . . . #tistheseason #gifting #solarsystem #necklace #space #interstellar #nerd #nerdjewelry
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
An entry to our Capture Space photo competition funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. For more information check out our website
www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/capturespacephotocompdetails...
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
afraid this is much more altered than just water erosion... I believe more in the Ganymede Hypothesis that Mars was align with Earth and strong currents of Electrical current from Mars hit the surface of Earth... probably moved huge amts of Mars ocean on to the shallow earth seas...
The seeing was pretty good last night, I was able to use a 2.5X Barlow and tried the 5X Barlow. At 5X the image shows a lot of noise. Images made with a 7" F/6.7 telescope and IS B&W video camera. Frames stacked and processed with RegiStax.
William Korthof, System Designer for Energy Efficiency Solar of Pomona teaches the details of the photovoltaic system during the Sustainable Workshop Series with the Solar Living Institute at Cal Poly Pomona's Lyle Center, Thursday, July 17, 2008. Eric Reed/photographer
Impressive eruption observed by the SDO on October 3, 2024
In this image, the northern hemisphere is up and the southern hemisphere down.
This image is in false colors. Specific combination with AIA171 and AIA 131.
Observed by SDO on October 3, 2024 at a wavelength of 171 A and 131 A.
The wavelength is ultraviolet for the sun.
Sun credit : NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
Edition, choice of filter combination : Thomas Thomopoulos
Visualisation and process of SDO image with Jhelioviewer