NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Back to Results
Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space: A Guide to the Sun-Earth SystemIn a world of warmth and light and living things we soon forget that we are surrounded by a vast universe that is cold and dark and deadly dangerous, just beyond our door. On a starry night, when we look out into the darkness that lies around us, the view can be misleading in yet another way: for the brightness and sheer number of stars, and their chance groupings into familiar constellations, make them seem much nearer to each other, and to us, that in truth they are. And every one of them--each twinkling, like a diamond in the sky--is a white-hot sun, much like our own. The nearest stars in our own galaxy--the Milky Way-- are more than a million times further away from us than our star, the Sun. We could make a telephone call to the Moon and expect to wait but a few seconds between pieces of a conversation, or but a few hours in calling any planet in our solar system.
Document ID
20110011535
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Other
Authors
Eddy, John A.
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
February 1, 2010
Publication Information
ISBN: 978-0-16083807-1
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Report/Patent Number
PB2010-106003
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG06EC631
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

Available Downloads

There are no available downloads for this record.
No Preview Available