Mae Asignado

Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It includes: the satellites of the planets; numerous comets, asteroids, and meteoroids; and the interplanetary medium. The Sun is the richest source of electromagnetic energy (mostly in the form of heat and light) in the solar system. The Sun's nearest known stellar neighbor is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.3 light years away. The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way. The Milky Way has two small galaxies orbiting it nearby, which are visible from the southern hemisphere. They are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. The nearest large galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way but is 4 times as massive and is 2 million light years away. Our galaxy, one of billions of galaxies known, is traveling through intergalactic space.

The planets, most of the satellites of the planets and the asteroids revolve around the Sun in the same direction, in nearly circular orbits. When looking down from above the Sun's north pole, the planets orbit in a counter-clockwise direction. The planets orbit the Sun in or near the same plane, called the ecliptic. Pluto is a special case in that its orbit is the most highly inclined (18 degrees) and the most highly elliptical of all the planets. Because of this, for part of its orbit, Pluto is closer to the Sun than is Neptune. The axis of rotation for most of the planets is nearly perpendicular to the ecliptic. The exceptions are Uranus and Pluto, which are tipped on their sides.

Diagram of Portrait Frames

On February 14, 1990, the cameras of Voyager 1 pointed back toward the Sun and took a series of pictures of the Sun and the planets, making the first ever "portrait" of our solar system as seen from the outside. This image is a diagram of how the frames for the solar system portrait were taken.

The Solar System

During the past three decades a myriad of space explorers have escaped the confines of planet Earth and have set out to discover our planetary neighbors. This picture shows the Sun and all nine planets of the solar system as seen by the space explorers. Starting at the top-left corner is the Sun followed by the planets Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Obliquity of the Eight Planets

This illustration shows the obliquity of the eight planets. Obliquity is the angle between a planet's equatorial plane and its orbital plane. By International Astronomical Union (IAU) convention, a planet's north pole lies above the ecliptic plane. By this convention, Venus, Uranus, and Pluto have a retrograde rotation, or a rotation that is in the opposite direction from the other planets.

Spiral Galaxy, NGC 4414

The majestic galaxy, NGC 4414, is located 60 million light-years away. Like the Milky Way, NGC 4414 is a giant spiral-shaped disk of stars, with a bulbous central hub of older yellow and red stars. The outer spiral arms are considerably bluer due to ongoing formation of young, blue stars, the brightest of which can be seen individually at the high resolution provided by the Hubble camera. The arms are also very rich in clouds of interstellar dust, seen as dark patches and streaks silhouetted against the starlight. (Courtesy NASA/STSCI)

Our Milky Way Gets a Makeover

Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms.

This artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other findings presented at the 212th American Astronomical Society meeting in St. Louis, Mo. The galaxy's two major arms (Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus) can be seen attached to the ends of a thick central bar, while the two now-demoted minor arms (Norma and Sagittarius) are less distinct and located between the major arms. The major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars; the minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star-forming activity.

The artist's concept also includes a new spiral arm, called the "Far-3 kiloparsec arm," discovered via a radio-telescope survey of gas in the Milky Way. This arm is shorter than the two major arms and lies along the bar of the galaxy.

Our Milkyway Galaxy

This image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was taken with NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer's (COBE) Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE). This never-before-seen view shows the Milky Way from an edge-on perspective with the galactic north pole at the top, the south pole at the bottom and the galactic center at the center. The picture combines images obtained at several near-infrared wavelengths. Stars within our galaxy are the dominant source of light at these wavelengths. Even though our solar system is part of the Milky Way, the view looks distant because most of the light comes from the population of stars that are closer to the galactic center than our own Sun. (Courtesy NASA)

It was afternoon when my friends and I went to the Express mart store,when suddenly the guy inside the package counter greet me and give a pleasure smile.I smile back with him and I let my friends to enter inside the store.We bought some foods and drinks.After we paid the items in the cashier that we bought, we decided to to went in school. Of course we passed again to the package counter. The guy have something to asked me. He asked for my cellphone number, but I didn't give my cell number, instead I said with him that I will be back after my class.

After class......

My mom text me to bought my sister's project. My friends already went to their houses. I was alone and it was already dark. I went to the LCC mall to found that things. I almost round the mall but I did not found the things that I must to bought. I went to the Express mart again hoping that there have the things that I must to bought. I was hurrying because it was already 8 o'clock of the evening and I need to went home. When I passed away in at the package counter, the was still there. I didn't found that things, so I decided to went home. I let my self to went out to that store. When I was in the front of package counter the guy ask me again about my cell number. I decided not to give my cell number with him because I don't want to have another text mate.But, the guard beside him said: "bigay u na, cell number lng nmn", so I give my cell number to that super kulit na guy. Makulit eh I said him na nga that my future husband will got angry if I give my cell number..Eh! sa sobrang kulit nya and sinabayan pa nung guard, napilitan akong ibgay with him. After that, I said bye to both of them and I decided to went home.

To be continued.....

That was the guy when suddenly become part of my life. I will call it unexpected. But, he give me more reasons to love him. He show me what kind of guy he is and I believe with for every words that comes out from his mouth. He is a real man, honest, caring and especially his so lovable. I can't deny the truth that in the first time that I saw him, I feel interested to get to know all about him.

I really like that guy, because he is true to his self and he never get afraid to mingle to others.His intelligent guy,really!

He was the guy that never surrender. He never let people down, like me...he never give up until he did not get me. He did everything just for me. He never let me alone, he is always in my side in times that I'm in need and he give all his love for me. He makes me special to his life and inspiration.

His such a good person not only with me, but to others also. I really like on how he project his self. He is the best guy that I've never met before,for me his perfect!