| Earth and
Beyond |
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| My address in space |
- House number / name
- Street name
- Suburb
- State
- Australia
- Southern Hemisphere
- Earth
- Solar System
- Solar neighbourhood
Our Solar System is in the middle of a group of
stars called the solar neighbourhood. Stars such as Alpha Centauri and
Antares are members of this solar neighbourhood and can be seen in the
night sky.
- Orion Arm
The solar neighbourhood is part of the group of
stars called the Orion Arm. The Orion Arm is a giant curve shaped out
of stars, huge clouds of dust and glowing gases. This is the part of
the Milky Way galaxy that we see in the southern sky.
- Milky Way
The Orion Arm is just one of the arms of a huge
group of about three hundred thousand million stars called the Milky
Way.
- Local Group of Galaxies
The Milky Way is second largest of the twenty galaxies
in the Local Group of Galaxies.
- Virgo super cluster
Our Local Group of Galaxies is part of a huge group
of galaxies called the Virgo Super Cluster. It takes light a few hundred
million years to cross from one side of the Virgo Super cluster to the
other.
- The Universe
The whole Universe is filled with Super Clusters
of Galaxies and the Virgo Super Cluster is one of these.
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The
Solar System
The
Sun
The
inner planets
The
outer planets
The
stars
How
far to the stars?
Beyond
the stars
Constellations
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