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THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Jul 31, 2014

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM. BY A.J. AZIKE. WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET IN A SMALL PART OF THE UNIVERSE CALLED THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY A SINGLE GREAT STAR- OUR SUN. SOLAR SYSTEM. SCIENTIST BELIEVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS OLD.

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM BY A.J. AZIKE

WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET IN A SMALL PART OF THE UNIVERSE CALLED THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY A SINGLE GREAT STAR- OUR SUN.

SOLAR SYSTEM • SCIENTIST BELIEVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS OLD. • PERHAPS A NAERBY STAR EXPLODED AND CAUSED A LARGE CLOUD OF DUST AND GAS TO COLLAPSE ON ITSELF. • THE HOT CENTER PORTION BECAME THE SUN. • SMALL PIECES FORMED INTO PLANETS. • THE REMNANTS BECAME COMETS AND ASTROIDS.

THE SUN, OUR SUN

LAYERS OF THE SUN

OUR SUN IS… • THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. • PRIMARY SOURCE FOR OUR HEAT AND LIGHT. • SO FAR AWAY, IT TAKES 8 MINUTES FOR ITS LIGHT TO REACH US. • VERY ACTIVE AND ERUPTS WITH SOLAR FLARES. • THE CENTER OF ALL PLANETARY ORBITS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

-1ST PLANET, CLOSEST TO THE SUN.-MERCURY HAS EXTREMELY HOT SURFACE TEMPRATURE AND HAS NO AIR OR WATER.-IT HAS MANY CRATERS FROM BEING HIT BY DEBRIS.

VENUS • VENUS IS VISABLE IN THE MORNING AND EVENING SKY. • THE PLANET IS COVERED IN CLOUDS. • TEMPERATURE IS INCREDIBLE HOT DUE TO THE SUN’S HEAT NOT BEING ABLE TO EXCAPE ITS CANOPY OF CLOUDS. • VENUS IS AN EXTREME EXAMPLE OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

SEGMENT OF VENUS

THE EARTH, HOME SWEET HOME.

EARTH • WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET, THE ONLY PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHERE LIFE SEEMS TO FLOURISH. • LIFE ON EARTH IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE EARTH IS THE RIGHT DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SUN FOR WATER TO EXIST AS LIQUUID. • THE ATMOSPHERE CONTAINS SO MUCH OXYGEN, IT IS KEY IN SUSTAINING LIFE.

LAYERS OF THE EARTH

THE EARTH HAS A FRIEND…

THE MOON • VERY UNEVEN SURFACE WITH MANY CRATERS. • ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON IN 1969. • THE MOON ORBITS THE EARTH. • TIDES ARE CAUSED BY THE PULL OF THE MOONS GRAVITY. • GALILEO STUDIED THE MOON IN 1609.

LUNAR PHASES

EARTH MOON RELATIONSHIP

MARS • THE ROMANS NAMED MARS AFTER THEIR GOD OF WAR. • THE SURFACE IS COVERED BY HUGE CANYONS, MOUNTAINS, ICECAPS AND VOLCANOS. • THE ATMOSPHERE IS TO THIN TO BREATH. • SOME SAY LIFE EXISTED ON THE PLANET AT SOME TIME. • PHOBOS AND DEIMOS ARE THE MOONS OF MARS.

IN 1938, AMERICANS LISTENED TO ORSON WELLES WHO NARRATED THE STORY “THE WAR OF THE WORLDS” AND BEFORE THE PROGRAM ENDED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THOUGHT MARTIANS WERE INVADING THE EARTH.

THERE IS A LARGE BODY OF DEBRIS IN THE SUNS GRAVITATIONAL ORBIT THAT IS REMNANT FROM THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM-THE ASTROID BELT

JUPITER • THE LARGEST OF THE PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. • IT IS 300 TIMES HEAVIER THAN THE EARTH. • THE PLANET IS A GIANT STORM OF HYDROGEN, AMMONIA AND METHANE. • A DAY ON JUPITER IS LESS THAN 10 HOURS LONG. • ITS FAST ROTATIONS CAUSES GREAT WINDS.

JUPITERS MOONS. • IO • EUROPA • GANYMEDE • CALISTO

THE HUGE RED SPOT ON JUPITER IS IN FACT A HUGE AND VIOLENT STORM. A WHIRLPOOL OF GASES THAT WAS SEEN BY ASTRONOMERS ABOUT 300 YEARS AGO.

SATURN’S RINGS AND MOONS.

URANUS • NEARLY FOUR TIMES THE SIZE OF THE EARTH. • ORBITS THE SUN EVERY 84 YEARS. • MADE MAINLY OF HYDROGEN AND HELIUM • THE PLANET ROLLS THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM ON ITS SIDE, POSSIBLY CAUSED FROM A COLLISION THAT SENT IT OFF ITS AXIS. • URANUS HAS FIVE MOONS.

NEPTUNE • THIS PLANET IS A VERY BLEAK AND WINDY PLACE. • IT HAS POISONOUS CLOUDS OF METHANE ICE CRYSTALS CONSTANTLY IN THE AIR. • NEPTUNE HAS EIGHT MOONS, THE LARGEST IS TRITON. • THIS PLANET IS THE SMALLEST OF THE FOUR GAS PLANETS.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST…THE DWARF PLANETS.

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The Solar System PowerPoint Template presents high-quality shapes to present the earth’s solar system. This template contains flat vector-based PowerPoint shapes representing eight planets and the sun. All these shapes are fully editable in PowerPoint. You can easily change the colors, move and resize planets. The background of solar system PowerPoint provides an astonishing scene of outer space. The star and moon icons in the background of galaxy complement astronomy and astrology presentations.

The Solar System PowerPoint Template is designed for educational purposes. The engaging visuals of space and planets encourage students to learn about solar system. This PowerPoint template of solar system could be used for science and physics topics in all grades. From basic knowledge of solar system planets to solar-terrestrial physics. The users can customize editable shapes and text placeholders to present all educational topics. You can also create facts presentations using solar system shapes.

Our solar system is consists of a star (sun) in the center with planets bound by gravity orbiting around it. Planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune with many moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. The solar system presentation is based on lesson structure. It begins with dark space background to the sequence of 8 planets that orbit around sun. There are 8 slides to feature details on all planets separately. The Solar system model illustrates positions and motions of planets and moons according to heliocentric model.

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Where does the solar system end?

The location of the solar system's outer boundary is a point of contention among astronomers. There are three possible candidates, which "all have merit." But which one is best?

The solar system is an enormous place. Our cosmic neighborhood includes eight planets, around half a dozen dwarf planets, several hundred moons and millions of asteroids and comets, all spinning around the sun — and in many cases each other —at speeds of thousands of miles per hour, like a giant top.

But where does it end? Well, the answer may depend on whom you ask and how they define the solar system .

There are not one, but three potential boundaries to the solar system, according to NASA : the Kuiper Belt, the ring of rocky bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune ; the heliopause, the edge of the sun's magnetic field ; and the Oort Cloud, a distant reservoir of comets that are barely visible from Earth. 

The arguments for each boundary "all have merit," which makes choosing between them complicated, Dan Reisenfeld , a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, told Live Science in an email. 

But there is one that most astronomers most commonly agree upon.

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Kuiper Belt

The Kuiper Belt stretches between 30 and 50 astronomical units (AU) away from the sun , according to NASA . (One astronomical unit is equal to the distance between Earth and the sun.) 

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This region is filled with asteroids and dwarf planets, such as Pluto , that have been ejected from the inner solar system by one-sided gravitational tugs-of-war with the planets.

Some astronomers argue that the Kuiper Belt should be considered the edge of the solar system because it loosely represents the edge of where the sun's protoplanetary disk — the swirling ring of gas and dust that later became the planets, moons and asteroids — would have been.

"If one narrowly defines the solar system as just the sun and its planetary bodies, then the edge of the Kuiper Belt can be considered to be the edge of the solar system," Reisenfeld said. 

But this definition of the solar system is considered to be far too simple by some astronomers, such as Caltech's Mike Brown . 

"It's not really true," Brown told Live Science in an email. "Things have moved around a lot — mostly outward — since the planets were formed." This means the Kuiper Belt does not contain all of the solar system's "stuff," such as the elusive, hypothetical Planet Nine , which (if it exists) likely lies far beyond the Kuiper Belt .

In October 2023, the discovery of a dozen new objects beyond the Kuiper Belt also hinted that there may be a "second Kuiper Belt" lurking even further out. 

The uncertainty around this region's own outer edge therefore makes it an unreliable boundary for the solar system as a whole, some researchers argue.

The heliopause is the outer edge of the sun's magnetic influence, known as the heliosphere. At this point, the stream of charged particles emitted by the sun, known as the solar wind, becomes too weak to repel the oncoming stream of radiation from stars and other cosmic entities in the Milky Way . 

"Because the plasma inside the heliopause is of solar origin, and the plasma outside the heliopause is of interstellar origin, some people consider the heliopause to be the boundary of the solar system," Reisenfeld said. As a result, the space beyond the heliopause is also often referred to as "interstellar space," or the space between stars , he added.

Two spacecraft have traveled beyond the heliopause: Voyager 1 , which made the crossing in 2012, and Voyager 2, which crossed over in 2018. As the Voyager probes crossed the heliopause, they quickly detected changes in the types and levels of magnetism and radiation hitting them, signifying that they had crossed some kind of border, Brown said.

However, despite its name, the heliosphere is not a perfect sphere . Instead, it is more of an oblong blob because most of the interstellar plasma bombarding the solar system hits us from one direction, which creates a bow shock — a rounded shock wave that deflects incoming radiation around the rest of the solar system. The bow shock is located around 120 AU from the sun, and creates a long tail that stretches at least 350 AU from the sun in the opposite direction.

Using the heliopause to delineate the solar system therefore leaves us with a lopsided neighborhood, which goes against some researchers perceptions of planetary systems.

The Oort Cloud is the furthest and most expansive potential solar system boundary, extending up to around 100,000 AU from the sun, according to NASA . 

"People who define the solar system as everything that is gravitationally bound to the Sun consider the edge of the Oort cloud to be the edge of the solar system," Reisenfeld said.

For some researchers, this is the clear choice for a solar system boundary because in theory, a planetary system consists of all objects orbiting a star.

"I don't understand how anyone considers anything other than the Oort Cloud to be the edge of the solar system," Sean Raymond , an astronomer at the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory in France, told Live Science in an email. "Any other definition seems ludicrous. It is literally the edge of where something can orbit the Sun."

However, other researchers believe that because the Oort Cloud is located in interstellar space, it lies beyond the solar system even if it is bound to our home star. 

There is also a large amount of uncertainty about where the Oort Cloud actually ends, which some would argue makes it just as unreliable a border as the Kuiper Belt.

Which boundary is best? 

Out of the three possible boundaries, the heliopause is the one that is most often used by researchers, and by NASA, to define the solar system's edge. This is because it is the easiest to pin down and because the magnetic properties on either side of it are significantly different.

"I would argue for the heliopause to be the boundary because it really is a boundary," Reisenfeld said. "Once you've passed it, you know it."

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But that doesn't mean that everything beyond the heliopause should be considered an interstellar object, such as the enormous space rock 'Oumuamua , Reisenfeld added. "The Oort Cloud was originally part of the same stuff that the planets were formed from, so it is composed of solar system material, not interstellar material," he said.

But while some researchers are happy to pick a side in this argument, others see no reason why the solar system cannot have multiple boundaries.

"I would say that there is no actual debate," Brown said. "There are just different ways to define it depending on what is important for the question you are trying to answer."

Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at the University of Exeter before training to become a journalist. He covers a wide range of topics including space exploration, planetary science, space weather, climate change, animal behavior, evolution and paleontology. His feature on the upcoming solar maximum was shortlisted in the "top scoop" category at the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Awards for Excellence in 2023. 

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NASA ambassador to give free presentation on Staten Island: 'The Mysteries of the Sun'

M ar. 29—STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A presentation about the sun and the rare April 8 total solar eclipse will be held on Saturday, April 6, at the Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve, Charleston.

Harold Kozak, a NASA solar system ambassador and a retired college astronomy professor, will lead the free presentation, "The Mysteries of the Sun," in the Clay Pit Ponds Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd. West, at 2 p.m.

It is appropriate for all ages.

On April 8, the moon will pass between the sun and Earth during an historic solar eclipse, visible across North America.

New York state has several cities in the path of totality, which means hundreds of thousands of people are expected to visit to see the phenomenon. Those cities include Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Rochester.

During the free event, Kozak will discuss the sun and share details about what to expect on April 8. He'll also share his knowledge about the sun and point out interesting features about it.

Free NASA eclipse glasses for safely viewing the April 8 event will be available, along with other NASA souvenirs, Kozak said.

He added that Staten Islanders can expect most of the sun to be blocked by the moon, but it won't be a total eclipse.

CAUTION URGED

"It's very exciting to see it," said Kozak, a Great Kills resident, stressing the importance of people viewing the eclipse safely, while protecting their eyes with special eclipse glasses. Not doing so is very dangerous, he said.

"It'd be very easy for you to look up at the sun, because it'll be hidden by the moon, but that's when you don't look," he said. "If you look at the sun during an eclipse, the radiation from the sun will go through the pupil of your eye ... and you'll burn out your retina."

Here are three solar eclipse glasses, approved by the AAS, sold on Amazon.

Kosak said he'll also ask a host of trivia questions about the sun. (We'll keep those classified, to prevent cheating.) A NASA lecturer for more than 20 years and a retired Wagner College professor, Kozak said the trivia is always the best part.

"It gives them a chance to show how smart they are," he said.

TIMING OF THE ECLIPSE

On April 8, the path of totality will start in Mexico and move across Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, before heading out over the North Atlantic. Small portions of Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee will also experience almost the entirety of the eclipse.

According to NASA's interactive map that traces the path of the eclipse, Staten Island should have full sun until 2:10 p.m. and will have totality, when the sun is nearly completely blocked, at 3:25 p.m. Full sun will return at 4:36 p.m. Staten Island should experience 89.5% totality, according to the NASA map.

Registration for the presentation is required, as seating is limited to 100 guests.

To register, visit the the Clay Pit Ponds Eventbrite Page.

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