Solar System

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If the moon were only 1 pixel (joshworth.com) A tediously accurate solar system model

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Local Interstellar Cloud

analogy

Bohr model

dwarf planets

famous photograph

Pale Blue Dot

largest canyon

Valles Marineris

location

The Solar System has been traveling through the region currently occupied by the Local Bubble for the last five to ten million years.
The Solar System is located within a structure called the Local Bubble, a low-density region of the galactic interstellar medium. Within this region is the Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), an area of slightly higher hydrogen density.
The Solar System is located at a radius of about 27,000 light-years (8.3 kpc) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion Arm, one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust.
The Solar System is close to its [Orion Arm’s] inner rim, about halfway along the arm’s length, in a relative cavity in the arm’s interstellar medium, known as the Local Bubble.

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Powers of Ten

Moon

Moon

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Alpha Centauri

orbits

Milky Way

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exoplanet

planets

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The Egg (Weir short story) (Wikipedia) “The Egg” is a short story by American writer Andy Weir, first published on his website Galactanet on August 15, 2009. It is Weir’s most popular short story, and has been translated into over 30 languages by readers. The story follows a nameless 48-year-old man who discovers the “meaning of life” after he dies.

smallest planet

It [Mercury] is the smallest planet in the Solar System, with an equatorial radius of 2,439.7 kilometres (1,516.0 mi).

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Sun

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q544

Wikipedia

Solar System (Wikipedia) The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, forming the Sun and a protoplanetary disc. The Sun is a typical star that maintains a balanced equilibrium by the fusion of hydrogen into helium at its core, releasing this energy from its outer photosphere. Astronomers classify it as a G-type main-sequence star.