The Space Thread

[Karu62]

my grandson came over wanting help with a school project making a model of the solar system. I went and bought some Styrofoam balls and dowels, and some watercolor paint.

I wanted to know the layout of the planets as current as I could get so I Googled "current position of planets" and came back with http://www.solarsystemscope.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. this is the coolest thing ever, not only is everything in HD, its looks current to the minute.

sometimes the internet and technology surprises me with cool stuff like this.

[grooks10]

my grandson came over wanting help with a school project making a model of the solar system. I went and bought some Styrofoam balls and dowels, and some watercolor paint.

I wanted to know the layout of the planets as current as I could get so I Googled "current position of planets" and came back with http://www.solarsystemscope.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. this is the coolest thing ever, not only is everything in HD, its looks current to the minute.

sometimes the internet and technology surprises me with cool stuff like this.

Even though the orbits aren't really that circular, that's an awesome site! That's a really cool way to see the orbital differences between planets of different masses, and how the Sun's gravity affects the angular velocity! Thanks for sharing!

[Karu62]

it is defaulted in orrery view with oversized planets. go into the settings tab and you can change them to both realistic layout and size.

[MadManCK]

Very nice link, Karu. It even looks better than some commercially available Astronomical software, lol

[Bez]

Nice link Karu62 and an interesting site

[Viktor Karpenko]

This is a pretty cool site, a new pic each day.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

my grandson came over wanting help with a school project making a model of the solar system. I went and bought some Styrofoam balls and dowels, and some watercolor paint.

I wanted to know the layout of the planets as current as I could get so I Googled "current position of planets" and came back with http://www.solarsystemscope.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. this is the coolest thing ever, not only is everything in HD, its looks current to the minute.

sometimes the internet and technology surprises me with cool stuff like this.

Cool, nice site there, thanks for the link.

[Miao]

So I watched a documentary about alien planets and some of them really caught my atention, while I was lookin' for information about one of them I found this website http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/systems.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; A catalog of every exoplanet currently discovered.

This is the planet I was interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_436_b" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The documentary:

[Oskad-87]

Thought this was worth to share.
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[Whoamus]

Thought I would add this link here. It's not just about space but It gives you some idea of the scale of everything including space that we are aware of now.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

[Bez]

Thought I would add this link here. It's not just about space but It gives you some idea of the scale of everything including space that we are aware of now.

http://htwins.net/scale2/

It certainly puts thing into perspective