OUR COSMIC

ADDRESS
Each of us has an address. Ours
Now is:
ENSIAS, Mohammed Ben Abdallah
Regragui, Madinat
Al Irfane, BP 713,
Agdal
Rabat, Morocco

But what is our cosmic address?

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EARTH

So Where Do We Live? On the Planet Earth!

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM - MILKY WAY GALAXY

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM - MILKY WAY GALAXY - LOCAL GROUP

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM - MILKY WAY GALAXY - LOCAL GROUP - VIGRU SUPERGLUSTER

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EARTH - SOLAR SYSTEM - MILKY WAY GALAXY - LOCAL GROUP - VIGRU SUPERGLUSTER OBSERVABLE UNIVERS

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The nine planets of the solar system in
order from the sun. The relative sizes are
accurate,
but relative distances from the sun are not.
Jupiter
Earth
Mercury
Mercur
y Venu Mars
s
Su
n

Uranus

Saturn

Plut
o

Neptun
e

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The Earth is one Astronomical Unit or 1 AU from the
Sun.

SUN

AU

EARTH

One AU equals about 93,000,000 miles, or

150,000,000 kilometers.

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Distances of the Planets from
the Sun

Mercury
miles

.0387 AU /

35,419,000

Venus
miles

.7233 AU /

67,242,000

1.0 AU /

93,000,000

Earth
miles
Mars
miles

1.524 AU /

141,600,000

Jupiter
miles

5.203 AU /

483,800,000

Saturn
miles

9.539 AU /

890,000,000

Uranus
miles

19.9 AU /

1,783,169,440

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Our solar system extends to where the solar wind ceases
to be of any significant influence.

This boundary is called the Heliopause.

Heliopaus
e
Voyager 1
Voyager 2

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But where in the
universe is the solar
system?

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Its in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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The Milky Way
Galaxy is
about
586,000,000,0
00,000,000
(586
quadrillion)
miles, or
6,300,000,000
,000 (6.3
trillion) AU, or
97,800 light
years in

This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a

spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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As we go further
out from the Sun,
the distances get
so vast that we
must use a larger
unit of
measurement -light years.

http://

NCG 6369, The Little Ghost, is a dying star

that is between 2000 to 5000 light years from
Earth.

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A light year is the distance

light travels in one year. In
one year, light travels
64,000 AU, or
6,000,000,000,000 (6
trillion) miles.
Light travels at 186,291
miles per second!

It takes light 8 minutes to

travel from the Sun to Earth.
Thats a distance of 1 AU or
93,000,000 miles.
12 light year long jet
emanating from a newborn

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Our galaxy (the Milky Way) is about 100,000 light years in

diameter.
The nearest star is 4.3 light years away.
The distance to the most distant object seen in the
universe
is about 14 billion light years (14 x 109 light
years).
Looking at light that reaches us from many light years away is

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Faraway Galaxies, Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Image: NASA

Where in the Universe is the Milky Way Galaxy?

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Our Galaxy is
located in a small
cluster of some 40
galaxies, including
the Andromeda
galaxy and the
Magellanic clouds,
called the Local
Group.
The Local Group is
located in the Local
Super Cluster.

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The Local Group is
part of the Local
Super Cluster, which
is moving towards
an unseen and
undetected mass,
called the Great
Attractor, at the
approximate speed
of 1,342,224 miles
per hour.
A view towards the Great Attractor

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So, our cosmic

address is:

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ADDRESS
Outer Galactic Being
Local Super Cluster
Universe
000000

THE DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE

2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, Colorado 80205-5798
United States of America
Planet Earth
Solar System
Solar Neighborhood
Milky Way Galaxy
Local Group
Local Super Cluster
Near the Great Attractor
Universe