The Solar System: The Hubble Telescope

Scientists have been researching about outer space for years but still don’t know as much as one may think. Scientists still do not know much about the early solar system. Scientists believed that the solar system was reshuffled around in the past which would explain the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud of icy bodies, the inner planets being destroyed by asteroids and why there isn’t any super Earths around in this solar system. But scientists recently discovered something that may change their theory. In Michael D. Lemonick’s “Plant Nine from Outer Space,” Lemonick claims that scientists may have found a planet with ten times the mass of Earth that is beyond Pluto and may be the reason why objects from the Kuiper belt are following similar orbits

it is so large that it can fit all the other planets in the solar system inside of it, or it could fit over 1,300 Earths inside it.

Astronomers began looking for another way to find new planets and cosmos. They needed new equipment and stated Using several South American, African, and Australian telescopes. When scientists started using new telescopes, they were able to detect bigger planets that are farther away from their stars, like Jupiter or Saturn. However, this method does not reveal smaller planets that are close to their stars. Scientist needed another way to find stars so they began to use NASA's Kepler telescope. NASA's Kepler telescope can detect planets as small as Earth. So far astronomers have discovered that there are probably 2 or more planets per star.

At first, we must talk about the whole system, I mean the solar system. The solar system consists of 8 planets and many dwarf planets. Pluto has become a dwarf planet since 2006 this for who will take about 9 planets. The Sun is our store which provides us with energy and heat. Sun can control all planets and comets in a field of its gravity; which covers a great area in space. The Sun moves at a speed of 20 km/s or 12 mile/s towards constellation Lambda pulling all planets with it around our galaxy ''The Milky

During our first lab in Astronomy, we got to develop and perform a hands-on experiment of the overall scale of our Solar System. We got to physically interact by demonstrating and constructing a model of our Solar System by using a simple tool such as toilet paper. Who knew? We used the toilet paper shown in the pictures as a visual representation to illustrate the overall scale of the Solar System, to show the distance between each individual planet, and to represent the distances of each planet from the Sun. We physically counted out each piece or sheet of toilet paper to reach the destination of which the next or neighboring planet was from its neighboring planet. We started with the Sun, then Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, until we finally reached our final planet, Neptune. We drew dots to represent each planet. In our lab activity, we created and demonstrated a relative scale model to show how the planets are aligned and the distance between each of them. We created this model, so that we could better understand the overall sizes of each planet and the distances of each of the planets from the Sun.

It is easy to flip to the index of an astronomy textbook to discover that, say, the Sun lies 150 million kilometers away from Earth.  It is far more difficult (if not impossible), however, to picture this distance in the human mind.  In this exercise, we will learn to access the often unpalatable distances encountered in astronomy by simply scaling the huge distances to more recognizable, pedestrian numbers.  So long as every distance within the system of interest is scaled by the same factor, we retain the meaningful information about relative distances between objects.

Astronomers have found that Pluto is 2.66 billion miles away from earth . They used the reflective telescope to find this out.

It is easy to flip to the index of an astronomy textbook to discover that, say, the Sun lies 150 million kilometers away from Earth. It is far more difficult (if not impossible), however, to picture this distance in our mind. In this exercise, we will learn to access the often unpalatable distances encountered in astronomy by simply scaling the huge distances to more recognizable, familiar numbers. So long as every distance within the system of interest is scaled by the same

To begin, much like space, the videos and books read and listened to, covered a lot of ground. What these sources explained was simply how big space is and our microscopic place is inside such a colossal surrounding of stars, galaxies, Nebulas, and so much more. To first get a reference point of our closer neighbors, we were brought through an adventure in the countryside with Bill Nye to acknowledge the unimaginable distances between the planets. For example, when earth was scaled to the size of a baseball, it took over well over two miles to reach an absolutely tiny scale model of Pluto. This is striking on it's own and even more staggering is the fact that Pluto is but a inconsequential speck on the map of the solar system, galaxy, and universe

July 29, 2005: "It's definitely bigger than Pluto." So says Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of

Our never-ending thirst for knowledge has set our journey even further into space. The known universe consists of billions of stars and a lot of them have, most likely planets orbiting around them.

Our system solar consists of a media star, that we call the sun, where we can find eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Also, consists on natural satellites of the planets, numerous comets, asteroids, meteoroids and interplanetary space.

Thanks to a sighting via the US NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (www.spitzer.caltech.edu) in a partnership with Poland’s Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, or OGLE Telescope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Gravitational_Lensing_Experiment), a brand new Milky Way exoplanet has been found. The remote gas planet is at least 13,000 light years from Earth, making this adventure in planet finding one of the farthest known of its kind. These worlds are called exoplanets, which mean they circle a sun other than our own sun.

The Kepler telescope helps discover planets beyond our solar system. NASA launched Kepler in March 2009. The telescope, which is about 9 feet in diameter and 15.3 feet in height, now orbits the sun every 371 days. It observes 100,000 stars in a portion of our Milky Way galaxy to check whether the planets revolve around the stars. Kepler is explicitly looking for planets that could support life. For this, the worlds must meet two conditions: they should be small enough to sustain life, which is about the size of Earth, and they should be in the "habitable zone" of their stars. In the habitable zone, conditions on the planet, such as temperature, would be accurate for the presence of liquid water, and possibly life forms. When an orbiting planet

As the 25th birthday of the Hubble space telescope (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope) is being celebrated by space enthusiasts, others at the Goddard Space Flight Center (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, are working diligently to get the new space telescope James Webb Space Telescope all put together and ready for its travel into space in October 2018.