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Niceguy878
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Here's a look at our Solar-system... this is a video, so don't get confused in the beginning when it says Earth! (You must go to -all comments- for full size)

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f351/dabears1020/1202609635165.gif

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rockmaiden1
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wow great

this is the white dwarf of Sirius B
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/sirius-b-white-dwarf-xl.jpg


this is a black dwarf
http://www.nightskyinfo.com/planetary_nebulae/m57.jpg

Wigginometry
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Awesome little clip, really puts things into perspective for ya. Stars are pretty freakin cool.

Legatus88
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I find outerspace very fascinating, I've taken several classes in high school and college just because I find it all so interesting in how everything came to be and just how many strange and wonderous things exist in the sky above

PixelSmash
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It is, isn't it Legatus? I myself had a lot of books about the universe when I was a kid... didn't necessarily understand everything they said, but then I could always stare at the pictures!

Pixie214
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At the edge of our is the hypothetical oort-cloud; pluto (no matter what school charts would insinuate) is far from the edge of our solar system. To see pluto (or its moon I forget) has been liked to trying to see a piece of coal on a black background several miles away. Though by the time you get to Pluto the sun is barely brighter than anyother star in the sky.

DDX
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Hmm, intrestin! reali is intresiting! I bet those other planets is on diffrent galaxies. yes?


they are all stars, planets don't get much bigger than our sun's size

Some say that Jupiter tried to be a double star with the Sun. What do you think?

nope, Jupiter is a gas giant, if anything it would explode if it were a double star.

I wonder if we can make a gravity bomb and implode/explode it in jupiter, will it become a star? Or do we need an atom bomb?

no. It wont become a star, if you somehow implode it. There is not enough energy to sustain a rekindle. If an atom bomb blows up jupiter, how come the earth didn;t blow up when america bombed japan?
MusicCrazed123
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Sweet, but where are the other planets from?

DDX
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Sweet, but where are the other planets from?


they are stars... and they are from other galaxies.
Pixie214
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Some say that Jupiter tried to be a double star with the Sun. What do you think?


Stars form because of the collapse of dense clouds of interstellar gas, dust and, well...., "stuff" (technical term). Whereas jupiter formed from the planetary disks left over. Planetesimals formed and these accumalated into a young planet. when it reached 5.9736x10^25 kg (10 times the mass of earth) it couls pull in gas using gravity directly from disk and it gained about 318 times the mass of the Earth. Solar winds removed the disk gas and so preventing saturn becoming a similar size. Although Jupiter is made up of maily hydrogen and helium (like a star) except it lacks the pressures for fusion to take place (it has a liquid hydrogen core) and has a mass "only" 0.1% that off the sun. The Sun is unusual in being alone though, half of all stars in the sky are part of a binary, triple etc. system. Binary is the most common and the stars are usually a similar size so an explanation of why the sun is alone is that it may have been greedy at the start of the solar system and taking most of the mass.

Calling all grammar Nazi's 'cos, well, I have a question:

Why do we say "the Sun" and "the Earth" but "Venus" and "Mars"? e.g. the Earth goes round the Sun. Venus goes round the Sun. just wondering.
hellbrokenloos
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our solar system is one of the best and it also haves a lot of mysteries

jumanjaz
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nice video and it amazing.the sun is so tiny than the vy Canis Majoris(the largest known star).

Somers
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When you watch this...your thinking wow no way nothing could be bigger than that! But theis is lol!

silentnite00
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wow thats crazy really cool vid tho

_S_K_E_
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Lol, what's up with these new stars? Are those the stages of our sun? Are those going to be our new sun? Btw, it's not a video, it's a .GIF.

And wow, that last star is beast.

Graham
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Why do we say "the Sun" and "the Earth"


I know it can just be called Earth EX. "We live on Earth"
As for the Sun I guess because wayback when it was thought there was only one of its kind
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