{"id":829,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-11T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T15:23:19","slug":"entire-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Entire Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wPym1EaBYJ0?si=MyFF2H4ecdnFnvkJ\" width=\"280\" height=\"155\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Voyager 1 &amp; Voyager 2<br \/>\ncrossing our entire solar system<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Dutch astronomer Jan Oort proposed in 1950, that certain comets come from a vast, extremely distant, spherical shell of icy bodies surrounding the solar system. This giant swarm of objects is now named the Oort Cloud, occupying space at a distance of 5,000 &#8211; 100,000 Astronomical Units (AU).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">One Astronomical Unit (AU), is the distance between earth and our sun, \u2248150 million km. The Cloud&#8217;s outer extent appears to be in the region of space where the sun&#8217;s gravity pull is weaker than the pull of nearby stars.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Oort_cloud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Oort Cloud contains up to 2 trillion icy bodies in solar orbit. Occasionally, stars passing nearby, or tidal interactions with the Milky Way&#8217;s disc disturb the orbits of some of these bodies of this Cloud. This may cause the object to fall into the inner solar system as a so-called long-period comet.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These comets have very large, eccentric orbits and take thousands of years to circle the sun. They have been observed in the inner solar system and recorded only once.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/yr-star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"286\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Short-period comets take less than 200 years to orbit the sun and they travel mostly in the plane in which most of the planets orbit. They are presumed to come from a disc-shaped region beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/ZPzePiRJB9I\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Neptune<\/span><\/a> called the Kuiper Belt, named after the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Kuiper Belt extends from about 30 &#8211; 55 AU and seems to be populated with hundreds of thousands of icy bodies larger than 100 km plus over a trillion comets.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/oortcloud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The objects in the Oort Cloud and in the Kuiper Belt are presumed to be remnants from the formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>&#8220;The Music of the Spheres &#8230;.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHUxOfq77Jo\" width=\"340\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"> Our flaming &amp; blazing Star<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/solar-center.stanford.edu\/singing\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">singing<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">\u00a0and dancing<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Pressure and gravity waves generated deep inside the Sun create <a href=\"\/userfiles\/file\/Solar_Music.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">sounds<\/span><\/a> and rhythms that cause the magnetic fields of its planets&#8217;\u00a0 atmosphere and terrestrial systems to sing-along (resonate) with, like a plucked guitar string.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">These &#8220;sing-along&#8221; dance tones are distinct and isolated. The solar blasts send acoustic waves to the &#8216;loops&#8217; at tens of kms\/sec. These loops are up to 100 million kms long. They guide waves and oscillations in a way similar to a pipe organ!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2013%20pics\/Orion_Nebula.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"195\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The Orion Nebula is the nearest massive star formation. It is \u2248 24 light years across. It&#8217;s mass is \u2248 2000 times the mass of the Sun. It is the most intensely studied celestial region.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The nebula has revealed the process of how stars and their planetary systems are formed from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. Astronomers directly observed proto-planetary disks, brown dwarfs, intense and turbulent motions of gas, and the photo-ionizing effects of massive nearby stars. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">There are also supersonic &#8220;bullets&#8221; of gas piercing the hydrogen clouds of the Orion Nebula. Each bullet is tipped with iron atoms glowing bright blue.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Sun-Analema.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An Analema in astronomy and Lemniscate in analytic geometry: an 8-shaped curve traced by the Sun in our daytime sky over the course of a year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; 6px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/Planet-line-up-60-90%20before%20sunrise.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A star with its planets can be seen as its chakras:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2024-pics\/planets-chakras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2026-pics\/28-2-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"111\" height=\"171\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">On 28\/2\/2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=855\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"2px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 1 &amp; Voyager 2 crossing our entire solar system Dutch astronomer Jan Oort proposed in 1950, that certain comets come from a vast, extremely distant, spherical shell of icy bodies surrounding the solar system. 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