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 …

LIGHT YEAR = 5,865,696,000,000 miles

Speed of Light = 186,000 miles per second

Size of our Solar System = roughly 5 light hours

1 Astronomical unit (au) = 93,000,000

Orion Nebula

1500 light years from Earth

Nebulas

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

Light Echoes from Super Red Giant V838

Remnants of a stellar outburst

Novas and SuperNovas

Gas remnants from a supernova

Twin Orbiting Neutron Stars

Pulsars

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 Way100,000 light years

100,000,000,000 stars

Our Solar System25,000 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

How Did It Start ??

What’s Leftover From the Big Bang

Deep Field View Back to Beginning of Time

The Tour Continues

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