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Using Gentle: Tour the solar system
Our solar system is huge. Gentle, the fastest-moving stuff within the universe at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km per second) takes over half an hour to journey to Jupiter, the fifth planet out from the sun. You get a terrific illustration of the solar system’s vastness within the 45-minute video Using Gentle. Created by Alphonse Swinehart, the video represents the journey of sunshine throughout our solar system. It imagines a single photon of sunshine, shifting at gentle pace after all, touring from the sun within the route out of our solar system. For the sake of brevity, the video simply takes you so far as Jupiter.
As you watch the video, the primary 4 planets move by in beneath 13 minutes. Subsequent comes Vesta, the brightest asteroid within the asteroid belt, simply earlier than the 20-minute mark of the 45-minute video. Asteroid Ceres is about three minutes later, adopted by Pallas two seconds later, after which a three-minute break earlier than Hygiea reveals up. Then we settle in for the 17-plus minute look forward to Jupiter (and its Galilean satellites!). Saturn can be one other 35 minutes out, however the video doesn’t run that lengthy. As we attain greater than 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun, Jupiter grows small, on a par with the much more distant sun, and the video tapers out.
Bonus factors for anybody who spots the constellation Orion within the video.
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Different video excursions
When you loved that tour of the solar system, you might like a few of these different video excursions!
Hubble’s Grand Tour of the giant planets
A grand tour of the International Space Station
Take a virtual tour of 6 exoplanets
How big are asteroids? See comparative sizes in this video
Backside line: Take a tour of the solar system on the pace of sunshine. This video imagines the journey of a photon leaving the sun and touring out previous the inner planets to Jupiter.
