1. The Sun Our Very Own Star Assembled By Ken Mitchell Livermore TOPScience Copy this URL into your browser http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM4SB4XQEF_index_1.html

2. Star Forming Region NGC 3582

3. Accretion Disk A rotating disk of gas and dust matter that may form around any of a variety of stars or other massive objects. In the case of young stars, accretion disks contain unconsolidated material, such as cosmic dust grains, which may subsequently accrete to form planets and other sizable objects

4. The Beginning – A Protostar A star's life is a constant battle against gravity, the force that wants to compress it, and pressure support which is trying to hold it up. That battle begins as soon as a molecular cloud begins to collapse into a protostar.

5. SOHO Best Sun Photo

6. HR Diagram - Star Sequence

7. Cutaway of Our Only Thermonuclear Power Plant

8. Sun Physics Basic Fusion Reactions in the Sun Paste the URL into your browser before starting: http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/a311/Sim/fusion/Fusion.html

9. Terrestrial Planets – Close to the Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars

10. Mercury

11. Venus against a starry background

12. Welcome to Planet Earth

13. Mars in Opposition, 2001

14. Outer Planets – The Gas Giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune

15. Hubble spots rare triple eclipse on Jupiter

16. Saturn – from Cassini

17. Uranus – two views

18. Spring time on Neptune

19. Dwarf Planet Pluto and its satellite Charon

20. Planet Summary Sheet Distanc e (AU)AU Radius (RTE) Mass (RTE) Orbital Period Rotation (RTE) Axial Tilt # of Satellite s O Orbital Inclinatio n Density (g/cm 3 ) Sun 0109332,800---25 – 36*--- 9 1.410 Mercur y 0.390.380.0588d58.80.1 O 0 7O7O 5.43 Venus 0.720.950.89224.7d244177.4 O 0 3.394 O 5.25 Earth 1.01.00 365.2d1.0023.45 O 1 0.0005.52 Mars 1.50.530.11687d 1.88y 1.02925.19 O 2 1.850 O 3.95 Jupiter 5.21131811.8y0.4113.12 O 63 1.308 O 1.33 Saturn 9.599529.2y0.42826.73 O 59 2.488 O 0.69 Uranus 19.241783.75y0.74897.86 O 27 0.774 O 1.29 Neptun e 30.1417163.7y0.80229.56 O 13 1.774 O 1.64 Pluto** 39.50.180.002248y0.267119.6 O 1 - 3 17.15 O 2.03 KAM: 3/29/08

21. Our Sun’s Life Cycle THE END Cometh