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Waves in the Universe
Size, distance, & light
C = 186,000 miles per sec
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Light is a wave
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The Inner planets (plus Pluto)
Earth’s Moon is about the same size as Mars.
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The Moon is 250,000 miles from Earth. Light takes 1.2 sec to travel from the Moon to the Earth.Light takes 8.5 minutes to travel from Sun to the Earth.
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The 6' Earth globe in Abrams Planetarium lobbyMichigan State University, East Lansing, MI
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Where is Pluto?
• Start at Lansing, Michigan.
• Calculate the distances to the other planets “to scale”.
• Where would Pluto be?
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Jupiter - in Detroit
Saturn - in Chicago
Uranus - in Pittsburgh
Neptune - Wash, DC
Pluto - Cape Cod
Alpha Centauri -145 times around the world!
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Pluto is 3660 million miles from the Sun. (Charon and Sun - artist’s idea)
Light takes 5 hr 40 min, Sun to Pluto.
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Nearest star…. Alpha CentauriLight takes 4.3 years to get from AC to Pluto!
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Antares is the 15th brightest star in the sky. It is more than 1000 light years away.
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way. Light takes 100,00 years to cross the galaxy.
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About 3,000 Galaxies in a small patch of the sky.Light travels 5,900,000,000,000 miles in a year… called a Light Year.
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70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars (7X1022) 70 Sextillion!!That is10 times as many stars as there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts put together.
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Our closest start is about four light years away (23,462,784,000,000 miles) The edge of the universe? About 15 billion light years
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To fly to the Moon at a constant speed of 1000 km/hr, takes sixteen daysThe Sun happens to be 400 times the Moon's diameter, and 400 times as far away.