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Day 1: What We See From Home

Sun Pillar

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Sun - SOHO

Sun Seen in Soft X-Rays

Sun - STS 82

Stars - Other Suns!

1. Star Colors

Cooler: 4000

K

Hotter: 7500 K

Sun: 5500 K

A Star Thermometer

Orion - the Hunter

Betelgeuse

Rigel

Star Brightness

Star Brightness:Which do You Think is Brighter?

Earth1 AB

Earth2 AB

Earth3 AB

The Moon - Our Satellite

Tycho

Sun

The Moon

New

CrescentGibbous

Old Gibbous

Old Crescent

Quarter

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Full 14

Old Quarter

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How Things Move:The MOON

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East Day 1Day 7 Day 5 Day 3

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Day 2: The Solar System

Our Solar System!

Which finally cleared out to leave just the Sun & Planets (and their moons, etc.)

Formation of the Solar SystemIt began with a Nebular Gas CloudFrom which developed Proto-Sun &

Planets

Debris

Rocky Matter(Source of craters)

Icy Matter (Source of comets)

From which came the Sun, Planets, & Debris

Rocky Matter ...

What do you see happening here?What do you think that the end

result will be?Can we see evidence of this kind

of bombardment today?

Mercury - Mariner 10

Venus - Galileo

Radar Map of Venus’ Surface - Magellan

Earth - Apollo 17

Earth as Seen from Space

Australia

Mississippi

Mt. Etna

Gibraltar

Antarctica

Earth & Moon - Project Galileo

Moon - 20th Century Views

Mars - Viking

Tarsus

A Day to Remember!

Mars

Tarsus & Mariner’s Valley

Tarsus

Olympus Mons

Mariner’s Valley

Ida & Dactyl - An Asteroid and its Moon

Gaspra - Galileo

Jupiter - Voyager

Io - Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon

Saturn & Two Moons - Voyager

Storm on Saturn - HST

Uranus - Voyager 2

Neptune - Voyager 2

Pluto and Charon - HST

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.Day 3: The Universe

Which finally cleared out to leave just the Sun & Planets (and their moons, etc.)

Formation of the Solar SystemIt began with a Nebular Gas CloudFrom which developed Proto-Sun &

Planets

Debris

Rocky Matter(Source of craters)

Icy Matter (Source of comets)

From which came the Sun, Planets, & Debris

Icy Matter ...

Jan Oort’s Cometary Cloud

Comet West

Pleiades Star Cluster

Our Galaxy

Stars

Gas

Dust

And more stars...

Milky Way: Center - COBE

Rotational Axis

M31 in Andromeda

M51, The WhirlpoolM83 Spiral

M100 - HSTM15, Globular Cluster

M87 Elliptical Galaxy

Black Hole in M87? - HST

Why isn’t a Black Hole

Black?

X-Ray Binary, Black Hole - NASA Drawing

M20, The Trifid

Horse Head Nebula in Orion

Orion Nebula - HST

M1, The Crab

Deep Field - HST