Astronomic Short Videos

[Ars Moriendi]

A look into the solar system for dummies.
It's the place where we live (and possibly a place we'll never actually manage to leave), so spare 8 minutes of your time to understand what it's like.

[Andrei the 2nd]

Thanks for the video!

[Andrei the 2nd]

Btw, I have a question: (if you know the answer)

Hypothetically speaking, if we were able to drive a car around the Sun, how many days would it take?

[Petalpusher]

Almost 5 years (1819 days) at 100 km/h. You can fit more than a million Earth in the Sun.

[Seraph of the End]

Petalpusher's thread about the Rosetta mission got me interested so I found this video, I think it's interesting

[Insuperable]

[Darth Revan]

A very easy way to understand what are the distances of the Solar System. All of it, assuming the Sun is the size of a basketball.

[Darth Revan]

On the Gallilean moons:

[Petalpusher]

A very easy way to understand what are the distances of the Solar System. All of it, assuming the Sun is the size of a basketball.

The easy memo-technique for a fair approximation of the solar system scale, is doubling the distance each time from the Sun to Mercury (x1), Venus (x2), Earth (x3), Mars (x4)/ Asteroid Belt (x8) / Jupiter (x16), Saturn (x32) / Uranus (x64), Neptune (x76) / Pluto (x100),... then Proxima Centauri (x1000000)

[Furnace]

5 years of documentation of the sun made by the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) Satellite.

The material is just stunning.