The Sun Our Very Own Star Assembled By Ken Mitchell Livermore
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http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM4SB4XQEF_index_1.html Slide 2 Star
Forming Region NGC 3582 Slide 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 Slide 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. Slide 5 SOHO Best Sun Photo Slide 6 HR Diagram - Star
Sequence Slide 7 Cutaway of Our Only Thermonuclear Power Plant
Slide 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 Slide
9 Terrestrial Planets Close to the Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars
Slide 10 Mercury Slide 11 Venus against a starry background Slide
12 Welcome to Planet Earth Slide 13 Mars in Opposition, 2001 Slide
14 Outer Planets The Gas Giants Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Slide
15 Hubble spots rare triple eclipse on Jupiter Slide 16 Saturn from
Cassini Slide 17 Uranus two views Slide 18 Spring time on Neptune
Slide 19 Dwarf Planet Pluto and its satellite Charon Slide 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 Slide
21 Our Suns Life Cycle THE END Cometh
