Our Solar System

Moray Stark

University of York

mss1@york.ac.uk

The Night Sky

http://proxima.astro.virginia.edu/ida/ida_2/info111.html

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy

2 million light years away

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap950724.html

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/96/01/HDF.html

NGC 7027

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/HST/press/ngc7027.html

Stingray Nebula (Hen-1357)

Red: N++

Green: O+++

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/HST/press/oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/15/a.html

Eagle Nebula: M16

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-astro-nebula.html

Supernova 1987A

Before During

Afterhttp://www.bloomington.in.us/~jashoup/space/stars.html

Crab Nebula

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/HST/press/cneb.html

Supernova Fragments

http://www.ciw.edu/lrn/psgtypes.html

Carbon: Graphite Carbon: Diamond Silicon Carbide

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/HST/press/cygnusloop.html

Collapse of Dust Clouds

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/1999/21/index.html

Examples of dust clouds around stars

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/03/

Saturn

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html#saturn

Pandora and Prometheus

http://www.solarviews.com/eng/promethe.htm

Solar System

http://freeware.intrastar.net/solarsystem/solarsy1.htm

Tour of Solar System

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/

Mercury

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mercury.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-venus.html

Venus

Earth and Moon: Galileo Fly-by

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-earthmoon.html

Mars

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-mars.html

Mars

http://nccsinfo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESS/images2/transcript.html

Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars

http://barsoom.msss.com/http/ps/channels/channels.html

Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars

http://barsoom.msss.com/http/ps/channels/channels.html

Allan Hills: Antarctica

Life on Mars?

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/marslife/photos.htm

Life on Mars?

Life on Mars?

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/marslife/photos.htm

Asteroid Belt

Red: Earth CrossingBlue: Jupiter Crossing http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.html

Asteroid 433: Eros

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/mission/near/near_eros.html

Eros Orbit

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/plot/00433.gif

Eros

http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20010205/index.html

Jupiter

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-jupiter.html

Jupiter’s Satellites

Amalthea

Io Europa

Ganymede Callisto

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-jupiter.html

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/jupiter.htm

Io: Volcano Loki

Io: Volcano Loki

http://www.hawastsoc.org/solar/cap/jup/iosur.htm

Europa

http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome/jupiter.htm

Europa: Galileo Close-up

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-europa.html

Saturn

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-saturn.html#saturn

Uranus

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-uranus.html

Neptune

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-neptune.html

Neptune

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-neptune.html

Pluto and Charon

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-pluto.html

Neptune and Triton

http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vgrnep_img.html

Triton

http://vraptor.jpl.nasa.gov/voyager/vgrnep_img.html

Kuiper Belt Objects

http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~af/kuiper/

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-comets.html

Short Period Comets: Halley 1996

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-comets.html

Halley’s Comet - Giotto Fly-by

Comet Halley Orbit

Ridpath and Tirion, Guide to Stars and Planets, Collins, 1984

Neighbourhood of our Solar System

Solar System Evolution, S R Taylor, Cambridge Univ Press, 1992

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