A Model of the Cosmos: Media
What if the Earth was the size of a Ping-Pong ball?
Images
An illustration shows the Sun and the planets that orbit it. From the closest to...
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The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.
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The Sun as imaged in extreme ultraviolet light by the Earth-orbiting Solar and Heliospheric...
NASA
The familiar near side of Earth's Moon, photographed on December 7, 1992, by...
NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00405)
An especially serene view of Mars (Tharsis side), a composite of images taken by...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and largest planet in the solar system. The...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00343)
Saturn, showing an Earth-sized storm (light-coloured patch) in its northern equatorial...
Photo AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL (NASA photo # PIA01464, STScI-PRC94-53)
Image of Uranus captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, 1998. Visible are four of...
Erich Karkoschka, University of Arizona and NASA
A photograph of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere, taken by Voyager 2 in August 1989....
NASA/JPL
The stars of the Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Image of the Andromeda Galaxy taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Spectrum of white light by a diffraction grating. With a prism, the red end of the...
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