1. Welcome to Class List 2 facts about climate change

2. Agenda Solar System Video Intro to Astronomy notes Create Solar System Book

3. Video The known universe

7. Gulp! Or is it? Jupiter is only about 1 pixel in size at this scale and the Earth is invisible!

8. But wait, there's more! At this scale, our sun is just 1 pixel and "giant" Jupiter is invisible. Antares is the 15th brightest star in our sky. It is more than 1000 light years away! Feeling pretty small and insignificant yet?

9. Space Astronomy – study of universe Solar System – sun and all planets and other bodies that revolve around it –Planets –Minor Bodies

10. Organization SOLAR SYSTEM GALAXY GALAXY CLUSTER We live in the Milky Way GalaxyMilky Way Galaxy Hundreds of Billions of galaxies Possibly 500 Billion

11. LIGHT YEARS Astronomical Unit (AU) – distance between Earth and Sun –150 million km Light travels 300,000 m/s Light travels 9.4607 x 10 12 km in 1 year –Called a light year

12. How do we study space?

14. Facts about space exploration April 12 th, 1961First man in space May 5 th, 1961 First American in space –Alan Shepard July 20 th, 1969 – Landed on the moonLanded on the moon –Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

15. Create Solar System Book

16. Solar System Book Create a book (4 pieces of paper) Go to each paper (14 total) and write info on the following –Sun –8 Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) –Dwarf Planets (Pluto, Ceres, Eris) –Kuiper Belt –Comets –Meteors –Asteroids