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Here's an animation. After the page comes up, click on the white JAVA page and let it download by itself for a few seconds. When the black image comes up, try clicking on the options of perspectives at the bottom of the screen. It's a simple animation. I'll keep looking.
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/javadir/orbits/ssv.html

Here's one you'll like:
http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/JAVA/luminaries.html

Here's a VERY good one. Requires a lengthy download, though:
http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/JAVA/luminaries.html

2006-11-29 18:03:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

As it left our solar system, on Feb 14th 1990, Voyager 1 turned it's cameras back on the planets and photographed them from a distance of about 4 billion miles above the plane in which the planets move. This would be the closest thing to seeing our solar system from outside of it. The picture had to be taken as a mosaic, the camera field of view was way too small to capture such a big scene.
Check it out...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00451

2006-11-29 19:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 0 0

Our sunlight is (quite speaking) a dim celeb. even though it appears that evidently very fantastic to us (because we are sitting on perfect of it), it will be truly seen to human eyes from a distance of fifty mild-years. The seen element of our Galaxy has a diameter of about 50,000 mild-years. for this reason, in case you've been to seem at a truthful representation of the completed Galaxy, our image voltaic gadget might want to no longer also be shown. although, being biased, we commonly upload a particular element (or perchance a "we are right here!" arrow) to illustrations of the Galaxy. the fantastic stars are prepared in very lengthy spiral fingers, alongside a airplane (the Galaxy is nearly a huge flat pancake, with a bulge contained in the midsection). Our sunlight is placed outdoors the substantial spiral fingers. each and every of the celebs that we can see with the bare eye are in our community (contained in the area between 2 fingers); the nearest parts of the nearest fingers are seen because the Milky way in our sky (once you've a gloomy sky).

2016-11-29 23:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by erke 4 · 0 0

Here's a ton of pictures of the milky way:

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=milky+way+galaxy

2006-11-29 17:55:03 · answer #4 · answered by Manuscript Replica 2 · 0 0

We are simply one tiny dot among millions of other dots.

2006-11-29 17:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sum_Guy 3 · 1 0

here are some links: just try:
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=m...
http://www.ecology.com/earth-at-a-glance...
http://www.ecology.com/earth-at-a-glance...
http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddar...

2006-11-29 18:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Konsehal Mikol 2 · 0 0

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