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At its closest approach, Mercury is about one-third of the distance that Earth is away from the Sun. At its furthest point away from the Sun, Mercury is almost halfway between the Earth and the Sun.
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The eighth planet is about 30 times further from the Sun than Earth.
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... the solar system is actually hard to define. The solar wind extends outward about three times the orbit of Pluto. At this point the solar wind from our Sun mixes with the solar wind of the interstellar medium. This is called the ...
The nearest galaxy outside of ours is called the Magellanic Cloud and is 160,000 light years away. The beautiful swirling Andromeda Galaxy is 2,000,000 light years away.
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... Messenger is currently doing a number of orbital gravitational assist maneuvers in space to allow it to get closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft ever launched. It will eventually go into orbit around the planet Mercury and become the closest spacecraft that we have to the Sun. It has ...
... to get very close to the Sun and perhaps eventually even fly through or near its tenuous outer atmosphere.
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... have only ventured out as far as the Moon, which is about 250,000 miles from the Earth. The Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) lies in a special orbit about one million ... to the Sun than any other NASA spacecraft- 76 million miles. In 2011, the Messenger spacecraft launched by NASA will achieve the distinction of the closest spacecraft to the Sun when it goes into orbit around the planet Mercury ...
... needed to send the Messenger spacecraft to an orbital rendezvous with the planet Mercury in 2011. Based on the learning data that comes back from this spacecraft which will be operating within 36 million miles of the Sun, scientists will start planning more ambitious trips to ...
... Galaxy is very large, any way you look at it. It is about 100,000 light years across. That's really big. Our solar system orbits the galaxy, similar to the way the Earth orbits the Sun. The galaxy is so big that we have only completed one orbit—called a galactic year— since dinosaurs first appeared 220 million years ago. The ...
This distance is 93 million miles. It is so far that even light takes eight minutes to cover the distance. In fact, when we see the Sun, we are seeing it eight minutes ago. Imagine It may not even be there now.
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