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Page 1: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

Welcome To….. Welcome To…..

The Trick is to Pick!

Page 2: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

THE SUNTHE SUN

Page 3: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

Sun vs. EarthSun vs. Earth

AnswersA. 109 times smallerB. The Earth Stress Ball

Over 1 million Earths would fit inside the SunThe average distance from the earth to the sun is

called an Astronomical Unit (AU) 1 AU = 150,000,000 kilometers or 93

million miles

Page 4: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit
Page 5: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

THE SOLAR SYSTEMTHE SOLAR SYSTEM

Page 6: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

The Solar SystemThe Solar System

AnswersA. Scotch Tape RollB. a grain of saltC. a microscopic bacteria

8 planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Page 7: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

The Solar NeighborhoodThe Solar Neighborhood

A grouping of stars “close” to each other

The region of the Galaxy within 32.6 light-years of the sun

Here stars move generally with the sun in its orbit around the center of the galaxy

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The Solar NeighborhoodThe Solar Neighborhood

Page 9: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

The Solar NeighborhoodThe Solar Neighborhood

AnswerA. a grain of salt

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The Milky WayThe Milky Way

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The Milky Way GalaxyThe Milky Way Galaxy

AnswersA. Nickel

It takes 250 million years for the Sun to complete one orbit

We are located at the edge of a spiral arm (30,000 light years away from center)

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Page 13: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

The Local GroupThe Local Group

Contains 3 large spiral galaxies --> Milky Way, Andromeda, and

TriangulumAlso includes a few dozen dwarf

galaxiesGravitationally bound together,

orbiting around a common center of mass

6.5 million light years in diameter

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The Local GroupThe Local Group

AnswerA. The big Globe

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Local SuperclusterLocal Supercluster

A cluster of many groups of galaxies

Gravitationally bound togetherHowever, local supercluster is

getting bigger with timeIt has a flattened shape

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The Local Super ClusterThe Local Super Cluster

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Local SuperclusterLocal Supercluster

AnswersA. a small globeB. a quarter

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The Entire UniverseThe Entire Universe

Observable Universe is 156 billion light years in diameter

Around 100 billion galaxiesBig and expanding

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Page 21: Welcome To….. The Trick is to Pick!. THE SUN Sun vs. Earth  Answers  A. 109 times smaller  B. The Earth Stress Ball Over 1 million Earths would fit

The Entire UniverseThe Entire Universe

AnswersA. A dimeB. A grain of salt

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Sun Vs. PlutoSun Vs. Pluto

A. 669 timesB. Nickle