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Petameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper
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| galaxy | | 21 |
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| local stars | 18 |
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| between | 15 |
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| E's orbit | 12 |
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| sun | 9 |
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| texas | 6 |
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| hood | 3 |
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| you | 0 |
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| salt grain | -3 |
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-5 |
| bacteria | -6 |
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-8 |
| atom | -9 |
1015 m 
1 Pm
1016 m 10 Pm
1017 m 100 Pm
We entered our local interstellar cloud a few thousand years ago, and
are now near the edge, heading outbound into an nearby cloud.
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planetary nebulas
source Drawn with perspective - vertical measure is 1/4 of the horizontal measure.
from Nelson Cunnington's Starmaps
Here are the stars in a 20 ly ball around the sun. These color blobs are, of course, way to big to be stars - the blob size indicates height. We are looking down at the galactic disk.
[ Image courtesy of Winchell Chung of
3-D StarMaps. ]
In this view... Basically, BD is ~5cm towards you, Sun/Barnard's/Wolf are ~on the screen, and the others are ~3cm behind it.
There are some stereo pairs here.
Other Worlds, Distant Suns has a
The 65 Nearest Star Systems VRML
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