For Students- Stanford Solar Center
Comparison Activities - Updated How big, how hot, and how far is the Sun? These activities are designed to introduce you to the solar scale by comparing the diameter, the temperature, and the distance to the Sun to familiar things on Earth. Sol Have you ever wondered what our star thinks about his (or her?) role up there in the sky? Have you considered what an awesome responsibility it must be, generating all that heat and light from fusion and having so many living beings depending upon you? Sol really does light up our life
What we do know is that the past 6 interglacials (dating back to the Mid Pleistocene Transition) have lasted roughly half of a precessional cycle, or currently 11,500 years, which just happens to be the present age of the Holocene. I notice that the graphs used showing the last half billion years of temp and CO2 are quite different from the commonly available graph attributed to C R Sootese and R.A.Berner 2001
The icy continent is surrounded by the dark blue of three oceans: the Pacific to the left, the Indian to the bottom, and a piece of the Atlantic to the upper right. Two distinct drainage basins are characterized by lighter colors-the Nugaaleed Valley along the western side of the photograph and the other watershed trending toward the Hafun Peninsula, the tombolo along the east coast of Somalia
New Survey: 1 in 4 Americans Believe the Sun Revolves Around the Earth - ImaGeo
About Tom Yulsman Tom Yulsman is Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism and a Professor of Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it
Solar activity variations have traditionally been associated with the sunspot number although it is well known that solar activity may not be described by a single number. Except for a short interval including the Maunder minimum when auroral observations were too scarce to allow unambiguous determination of auroral activity extrema, the 400 year long period confirmed the good correlation between solar activity and the Northern Hemisphere land temperature as indicated in Figure 2
Earth-Moon size and distance
If you could fly to the Moon at a constant speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, which is the speed of a fast passenger jet, it would take sixteen days to get there. A total solar eclipse, in which the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, blocks the bright light from the Sun's photosphere, allowing us to see the faint glow from the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere
This warming is largely attributed to the increase of greenhouse gases (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) in the Earth's upper atmosphere caused by human burning of fossil fuels, industrial, farming, and deforestation activities. For more information, read the full article (pdf) from the Proceedings of the Royal Society A An animated map of the United States showing changes in Plant Hardiness Zones that took place since 1990 due to a warming trend
Once a planet is in orbit, what keeps it there?: Gravity pulls the Earth in, and centrifugal force holds it out.* The centrifugal force on the Earth is just a result of the Earth moving in a curved path around the Sun. But once the ball gets rolling (so to speak) you find yourself with a solar system full of big rocks on slightly different orbits slamming into each other, and changing each others rotations
Spacecraft are constantly increasing our understanding of the sun -- from Genesis (which collected samples of the solar wind and returned the particles to Earth) to SOHO, STEREO THEMIS, and many more, which are examining the sun's features, its interior and how it interacts with our planet. The sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and hundreds of thousands to three trillion comets and icy bodies
BAFact math: how big does the Sun look from Pluto? - Bad Astronomy : Bad Astronomy
CATEGORIZED UNDER: Astronomy, BAFacts, Cool stuff, Debunking MORE ABOUT: angular size, Pluto, Sun Comments (16) Kimberly New Horizons will make its closest approach to Pluto in July 2015 not 2014, specifically July 14, 2015. But how big would it look in the sky? It turns out, that math is even easier than it was to find the brightness! The size of an object on the sky depends on how big it really is, physically, and how far away it is
How Big is the Sun? - Bob the Alien's Tour of the Solar System
In comparison, your planet Earth is only 12,756 kilometres (7,926 miles) wide, and even Jupiter, the biggest planet in the solar system, is only 142,600 kilometres (88,700 miles) wide
Light and shadows: The Sun moves in the sky - The Earth and Sun: Investigations for the third grade
This lesson is an excellent opportunity to introduce the importance of careful, systematic observation and of presenting results in a clear and accurate way. This will be helpful in explaining to students how the photo represents the actual horizon and how to relate positions in the photo to directions in the sky
Not until about December 12 will the flying ghost of ISON climb far enough from the sun to be fairly well up in a dark sky before dawn begins (and only for northern latitudes). In late 2012, when astronomers using large telescopes first spotted Comet ISON far, far from the sun, they could clearly see it was a large comet and a bright comet
Life of the Sun
When our Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel, it will expand up as a red giant, puff off its outer layers, and then settle down as a compact white dwarf star; slowly cooling down for trillions of years. And then about 4.6 billion years ago, something bumped into the cloud, like the gravity from a passing star, or shockwaves from a supernova, causing the cloud to collapse
These kinks and twists in the magnetic field develop because the sun spins more rapidly at the equator than at the higher latitudes and because the inner parts of the sun rotate more quickly than the surface. It has imaged the structure of sunspots below the surface, measured the acceleration of the solar wind, discovered coronal waves and solar tornadoes, found more than 1,000 comets, and revolutionized our ability to forecast space weather
How Big is the Solar System?
It should be a unit that will make a good story afterwards like "All the way from the flagpole to the Japanese garden!" Put the Sun ball down, and march away as follows. Leaving aside the entirely distinct natures of the bodies and the orbits, there is a difference in relative sizes: the spaces within the atom are even larger a hundred times larger-than the spaces within the solar system! The distance from the Sun out to Mercury is about 45 Sun-widths
The charged particles carried by solar winds also interfere with satellites, power lines, and other technology on Earth as well as causing the aurora borealis. However, the solar winds carry out the charged material to the edge of the Solar System where it forms a magnetic field that prevents other interplanetary material from getting in
The moon may have once been a part of the Earth; it may have been broken off the Earth during a catastrophic collision of a huge body with the Earth billions of years ago. The atmosphere was formed by planetary degassing, a process in which gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen were released from the interior of the Earth from volcanoes and other processes
How Big Is Earth Compared to the Universe?
Until we can find life outside our Planet (Even Mars might not be could, because life could have originated on either planet, got transported on Asteroids). To the extent that it helps scientist develop a better understanding of natural phenomenon, I think it could have valuable second and third order effects on a wide range of fields as physics, quantum mechanics, abiogenesis (and, whether or not exogensis played a role in our own planet), ideal formation parameters for life, etc
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