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Here and Now Chapter 1

Where are You? To find our place among the stars, we will zoom out from a familiar scene, to the largest scales in the universe. From each frame to the next, we zoom out by about a factor 100.

A Campus Scene 16 x 16 m

A City View 1 mile x 1 mile

The Landscape of Pennsylvania 100 miles x 100 miles

The Earth Diameter of the Earth: 12,756 km

Earth and Moon Distance Earth – Moon: 384,000 km

Earth Orbiting Around the Sun Distance Sun – Earth = 150,000,000 km

Earth Orbiting Around the Sun (2) In order to avoid large numbers beyond our imagination, we introduce new units: 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = Distance Sun – Earth = 150 million km

The Solar System Diameter of Neptune’s orbit: Approx. 60 AU

(Almost) Empty Space Around Our Solar System Approx. 10,000 AU

The Solar Neighborhood Approx. 17 light years

The Solar Neighborhood (2) Approx. 17 light years New distance scale: 1 light year (ly) = Distance traveled by light in 1 year = 63,000 AU = km = 10,000,000,000,000 km (= zeros) = 10 trillion km Nearest star to the Sun: Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.2 light years

The Extended Solar Neighborhood Approx. 1,700 light years

The Milky Way Galaxy Diameter of the Milky Way: ~ 80,000 ly

The Local Group: Our Cluster of Galaxies Distance to the nearest large galaxies: several million light years

The Universe on Very Large Scales Clusters of galaxies are grouped into superclusters. Superclusters form filaments and walls around voids.