Science Facts and Info

SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE

• Magnifying the Universe - This is a very cool website that allows you, by use of a manual controlled moveable slide, to shrink and magnify the universe from particles smaller than an atom to greater than our Milky Way universe and back. It’s fun to play with. Amazing!

• “The first planet discovered orbiting another star was in 1992. Today we know of 3500 other planets orbiting other stars. 

  • It’s about 250 miles to the ISS

  • 250,000 to the moon

  • 700 million miles to Saturn

  • Over 9 trillion miles to the edge of the solar system

  • Our nearest star is 4 1/4 light yrs away, 17,000 yrs away

  • 25,000 light yrs to the edge of the milky Ways

  • Our galaxy is just one of trillions” (From One Strange Rock)

• Extraordinary Pictures of the Universe

  • The largest image of the universe (the Andromeda galaxy), captured by NASA and the Hubble Telescope, is a collection of 411 photos stitched together (1.5 billion pixels). Use NASA’s zooming tool to see it. (See Blog entry about this)

  • “If the moon were only one pixel”

  • “Zoom out to the far-ends of space from a single molecule”

  • Zooming in on a strand of hair to the smallest component

  • “Zoom and pan of Hubble’s colouful view of the Universe”

  • Mystic Mountain image

OCEANS

• Just How Deep Is the Ocean [3.23] (Animation-YouTube)