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SCALING THE UNIVERSE

LESSON 2:  SIZE, AGE, AND ORGANIZATION

HOW DO WE KNOW THE SIZE OF THE UNIVERSE?

WE ARE NASA

VIDEO LOG: 
IN YOUR NOTEBOOK, WRITE HOW WE KNOW HOW OLD THE UNIVERSE IS.

PLAY

SCALE OF EVERYTHING

Have fun with this.  Scroll from the smallest item to the largest item.

FOR YOUR NOTEBOOK:

Lesson 2:  Scaling the Universe and NASA

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Key Terms:

  1. Light Year- How far light travels in a year!  (5.88 TRILLION MILES!)

  2. Solar System - the collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets. (1.6 Light Years)

  3. Milky Way Galaxy - The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.  Looks Milky from Earth.  (100,000 Light Years)

  4. Local Group - The Local Group is the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way (5 Million Light Years)

  5. Nearby Universe - Classification of our local universe.  (500 Million Light Years)

  6. NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research.

  7. SpaceX - Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.​

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CREATE SKETCH + DESCRIPTIONS FOR ITEMS BELOW

​SpaceX Instruments

  • Starship 

  • Dragon​ 

  • Falcon 9

  • Falcon Heavy

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NASA Instruments:

  • International Space Station

  • Voyager 1

  • Voyager 2

  • Rovers

  • Orion

  • Hubble Telescope

SPACEX DOCKING SIMULATION

TEST 1

See if you have what it takes

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