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Our solar system is much bigger than you probably think. Pluto, the farthest planet, is about 3.5 billion miles away. If the Sun were the size of a bowling ... , Pluto would be smaller than a pin head and ten football fields away. But the solar system is bigger than that, still.
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The Milky Way 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 ... %20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... in our solar system combined. It has a diameter eleven times greater than Earth's and a planetary volume of over 1300 times that of Earth's. While Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, scientists have recently discovered planets in other solar systems that are even bigger
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... the solar wind from our Sun mixes with the solar wind of the interstellar medium. This is called the termination shock. However, most astronomers agree that there is a great swarm of comets around our solar system. The far edge of this is about ...
We have not discovered any signs of plant life in our solar system; however, we are just now embarking on such missions. We have robotic rovers on the ... or present life, and in the near future we have a mission to Europa. Europa is one of Jupiter's moons, and we believe that underneath its ice-covered surface there is a liquid water ocean that has the promise of conditions suitable for the existence of ...
... of technology. However, even with significant advances in technology, it is unlikely that humans will live on planets other than Mars in our solar system.
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... final stage of a star greater than eight to ten solar masses, there are no black holes within the confines of our solar system
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... what we can see within our Universe (due to the limiting factor of the speed of light) is about 13.7 billion light years That number is so big that I can't even ... %20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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Traveling out of the solar system is harder, because other stars are so much farther away than planets. Some ideas for reaching ... include light sails that might be pushed by laser beams fired from the Moon, where solar electrical power can be generated. A continuous push from the laser banks could accelerate a ... substantial fraction of the speed of light. Going at near light-speed is important, because the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit in the Universe. Light takes several years to ...
... us from leaving the solar system except time. The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been traveling since 1977 and is just getting to the termination shock. It will eventually exit the solar system.
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