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Next topic: the solar system in a stellar context Why are we doing this?

Why talk about the solar system in “Stars, Galaxies, & Universe”? It is a place to “start” the journey. We get a close-up view of a star system and a star, the Sun Planetary systems are part of stars, and form when the stars do.

Look further out into space

The study of solar system astronomy is fascinating in its own right The surface of Mars as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover spacecraft

Size scales in the solar system Basic unit: 1 meter 1 kilometer = 1000 meters = miles Diameter of Earth: kilometers (~ LA to Sydney) Closest object in space: Moon, 384,000 km average distance Most prominent object in astronomy: Sun, million kilometers; 1 Astronomical Unit demo

The Earth and Moon in Space

The Terrestrial Planets PlanetDistance (au) Size Mercury Venus Earth1.00 Mars

The Earth and Mars

The Jovian Planets PlanetDistance (au) Diameter Jupiter Saturn9.5 Uranus Neptune See Jupiter in the sky tonight! Look east at 9PM

The Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn

A piece of Iowa in the distant solar system: the Voyager spacecraft Voyagers launched in 1977; V1 at au from Sun, V2 at 92.8 au. Both spacecraft still functioning

Back to inner solar system: the dominant object in the solar system The nearest star

Facts about the Sun Distance: million kilometers = 1.496E+11 meters = 1 astronomical unit Radius = 695,990 kilometers = 6.960E+08 meters (109 times radius of Earth) If Earth were scaled to 1 foot globe size, the Sun would extend from goal line to 30 yard line at Kinnick stadium The Sun, not the planets (including Earth) is the dominant object in the solar system

Now on to “Stars, Galaxies, etc, etc, etc. Topic 1: Distances to stars; parsecs and light years Another way of expressing distances in the solar system

Distance to Sun in terms of light travel time d=vt (like driving to Des Moines) t=d/v The fastest anything can travel is speed of light = c = E+08 meters/sec Distance to Sun = 1 au = 1.496E+11 meters (see Appendix 1), so light travel time from Sun is t=d/c =1.496E+11/2.9979E+08 = t= sec A little over 8 minutes

The Sun could have exploded 7 minutes ago, and we would not have gotten the news yet!

Let’s repeat the calculation with the Voyager 1 spacecraft, au from Sun

Voyager is a long ways out there Light takes 15.9 hours to reach Voyager 2 from Earth. Round-trip time is well over a day!

Summary: an alternative description of the size of the solar system Inner solar system is light minutes in extent Outer solar system is light hours to a light day across

The Stars “e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle” Last words of Dante’s Inferno

The Stars are other Suns Or…the Sun is the closest star “L’amor che muove il Sole E le altre stelle”… Dante, end Of Paradiso

How far away are they to be glowing points in the night sky rather than the blazing Sun?

Basic Questions about Stars How far away are they? How hot are they? How massive are they What are they made of? Do they have planets too? 16 Cygni

Most Basic Method of Stellar Distance Determination Trigonometric parallax: an ordinary surveying technique DEMO

Next time: How far away are the stars (compared to solar system distances)? What units do we use to describe their distances?