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Beyond Our Solar System

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 ….

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Beyond Our Solar System

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  1. Beyond Our Solar System What Is Out There??

  2. Our Eyes to the Skies ..Hubble Telescope Captured Light Telescope

  3. Spitzer Space Telescope Infra-Red Telescope

  4. Chandra X-Ray Observatory

  5. As We Travel Out Distances get further and the numbers get mid boggling … 1 Astronomical unit (au) = 93,000,000 Speed of Light = 186,000 miles per second LIGHT YEAR = 5,865,696,000,000 miles Size of our Solar System = roughly 5 light hours

  6. Nebulas Orion Nebula 1500 light years from Earth

  7. Cat’s Eye nebula Distance - 3300 light years

  8. Crab Nebula 6500 light years from Earth Centered by neutron star

  9. Star Cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud 170,000 light years

  10. Main Sequence StarsOur Closest Star 93,000,000 miles

  11. Our Nearest Star Proxima Centauri 4.2 light years

  12. Novas and SuperNovas Light Echoes from Super Red Giant V838 Remnants of a stellar outburst

  13. Gas remnants from a supernova

  14. Pulsars Twin Orbiting Neutron Stars

  15. Black Holes Dust around the black hole at the center of NGC 4261

  16. Black Hole-Powered Jet of Electrons and Sub-Atomic Particles Streams From Center of Galaxy M87

  17. Our Galaxy Milky Way 100,000 light years 100,000,000,000 stars Our Solar System 25,000 light years from the center

  18. Nearest Large Galaxy Andromeda 2,500,000 light years

  19. Gallery of Amazing Sights Spiral Galaxy M-100

  20. Interacting Galaxies 600 million light years from Earth

  21. Our Universe Observable diameter = 93 billion light years

  22. How Did It Start ??

  23. What’s Leftover From the Big Bang

  24. Deep Field View Back to Beginning of Time

  25. The Tour Continues Powers of Ten

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