Astronomy and Space

One of my avid interests is working and living in space, I've had this interest ever since I can remember (5 or 6 years old, I think)

One way to help visualize the relative sizes in the solar system is to imagine a model in which it is reduced in size by a factor of a billion (1e9). Then the Earth is about 1.3 cm in diameter (the size of a grape). The Moon orbits about a foot away. The Sun is 1.5 meters in diameter (about the height of a man) and 150 meters (about a city block) from the Earth. Jupiter is 15 cm in diameter (the size of a large grapefruit) and 5 blocks away from the Sun. Saturn (the size of an orange) is 10 blocks away; Uranus and Neptune (lemons) are 20 and 30 blocks away. A human on this scale is the size of an atom; the nearest star would be over 40000 km away.

Quantum Physics is an area that is sure to expand our understanding of the cosmos. It may well explain a great many things.

A look at the 3D structure of our universe reveals things like this. And there is another here.

A Shuttle Launch during the early morning hours. This picture was taken in Orlando at about 5:40am. the contrails were so bright, that they turned off all the lights in the parking lot of the local Publix.
You can see the shuttle itself as the brighter point of light slightly to the right of the top of the white contrail near the top.

There are a lot of people trying to get us all into space in various ways. Have a look at what's going on around the world

Astronomy kind of goes hand in hand with space travel. We're just looking at WHERE we want to go!