Space, immeasurable
distances, incalculable numbers,
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incomparable speeds,
incomprehensible spheres,
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inconceivable power.
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The magnitude of space is awe
inspiring, the sheer vastness
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of it along with the trillions
upon trillions of objects
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in the many billion galaxies
of the universe is almost
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incomprehensible
to the human brain.
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For instance,
there are more stars
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in space than grains
of sand in the world.
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In fact, there are 10 times
more stars in the night sky
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than grains of sand on all
the beaches of planet earth
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and then in addition there
are probably more planets than
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stars. And remember this, we can
only see a small percentage of
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the universe from earth,
even with an optical telescope.
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The sheer size of space makes
it impossible to accurately
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predict just how many
stars we have, they're really
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completely uncountable and just
think of the immensity of space.
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For example, our earth could
fit into the sun 1.3 million
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times and one of the closest
large galaxies to us is the
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Andromeda Galaxy that is
2.5 million light years away.
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Yes, it's all enough to boggle
the mind but by understanding
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our galaxy, we may be able
to better understand our place
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in it and how
this world came to be.
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So, come with me on a
journey through space and make
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discoveries that are intriguing
and more amazing than you could
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ever imagine. Yes, spectacular
adventure awaits the person
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who reads what is
written in the night sky.
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Venture onwards with me
to the farthest depths of our
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Milky Way galaxy and be on to
the biggest and brightest stars
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light years away.
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The stars have a message for
us today, a message that will
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hold you spellbound.
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Here rising above the
wheat and canola fields about
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380 kilometers west of Sydney
in central New South Whales
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Australia is the world-famous
CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope.
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The Parkes Observatory was
first officially opened on the
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thirty-first of October of
1961 and is one of the largest
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single-dish telescopes in the
southern hemisphere dedicated
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to astronomy. The
telescope works 24 hours a day
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and is now 10,000 times
more sensitive to signals
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than it was when
it was first built.
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The Parkes Observatory is
run by the CSIRO, Australia's
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National Science Agency
and is considered by many
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to be the most successful
scientific instrument ever built
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in Australia and was recently
added to the National Heritage
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List. While it is operated
primarily for astronomy research
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the Parkes telescope has a
long history of being contracted
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by NASA and other International
Space Agencies to track and
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receive data from spacecraft.
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It is affectionately
known as "The Dish" after the
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entertaining movie based loosely
on the role of the Parkes
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Telescope in one of humanities
most significant achievements
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"The Apollo 11 Moon Landing."
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Roger, go for one injection.
At precisely 12:56 p.m.
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on the 21st of July 1969
Australian Eastern Standard Time
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mankind took its one giant
leap and 600,000,000 people
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one 5th of the world's
population at that time watched
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as Neil Armstrong took
his first step on the moon.
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It's one small step for man...
The NASA Facility at Goldstone
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California and Honeysuckle Creek
near Canberra were the source
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of the first 8.5 minutes of
the first moon-walk TV pictures
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until NASA decided that the
larger 64 Meter Parkes Radio
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Telescope was providing
better images of the Apollo 11
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Astronauts
exploring the moon surface.
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So, for the following five hours
the live broadcast came from
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this telescope here at Parkes.
The signal was split in two
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one went to the ABC, Australian
Broadcasting Commission in
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Sydney for Australian
distribution and the other
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was sent halfway around
the world to Houston, TX
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for International Broadcast
which added a slight delay.
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So Australian audiences
can boast that they saw Neil
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Armstrong's Historic first step,
0.3 seconds before the rest of
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the world. So we were the
first to see it all happen.
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Now distances in space are
so vast that we cannot talk
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of them in terms of kilometers
or miles so astronomers
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use much bigger
units of measurements.
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They use a measurement
which is called a Light year,
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it's the distance
light travels in one year.
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A ray of light travels in
space at a speed of 300,000 km a
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second or 18 million km a
minute, a speed so great that
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traveling at the speed of light,
we could circle the earth eight
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times every time
your heart beats.
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This is the measuring
stick of the skies of space.
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Let's ride on the winds of
light to the sun and from there
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take a journey
around our solar system.
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The trip to the sun is 150
million km and will only take
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us 8 minutes
traveling at the speed of light.
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The sun is the star at
the center of our solar system
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where it is by far the
largest object. It's so massive
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that it contains 99.8% of
our solar systems mass and is
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roughly 109 times the
diameter of the earth.
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Over one million earths
could fit inside the sun.
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The gravity of the sun is
what keeps all of the planets
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moons and bodies within
our solar system together.
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The sun is our nuclear power
plant in the sky and provides
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the heat needed to
sustain light from planet earth.
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Without the sun, we wouldn't
exist, it drives our seasons
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ocean currents, weather,
and climate and now we continue
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our journey. Bidding farewell
to the sun, we seat ourselves
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comfortably on a beam of light
for our 18 km imaginary flight
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across the solar system.
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After three minutes we reach
the planet closest to the sun
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Mercury, it's the smallest
planet in our solar system
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Its surface is very much
like our moon dry, dusty and
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pitted with craters, it has
the most extreme temperature
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fluctuations in the solar
system temperatures vary between
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400 degrees Celsius
and -180 degrees Celsius.
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It's hard to imagine a
more inhospitable place,
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life couldn't exist on
this planet and so we are soon
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on our way again. Another
three minutes of travel on our
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light beam brings us to
the second planet from the sun
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called Venus. It's practically
the same size as our earth
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and is the third brightest
object in our sky after the
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sun and moon.
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Venus shines so brightly that
it's the first planet to appear
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in the sky, after the sun
sets, or the last to disappear
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before the sun rises. It's
often called "The Morning Star"
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or "The Evening Star".
Venus reflects the light
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from the sun and is named
after the Roman God of Love and
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Beauty. Now two minutes on
from Venus on our light beam
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brings us to the
third planet from the sun.
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Earth, our home planet, earth
is a world unlike any other
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it's the only place in the known
universe confirmed to host life.
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This is because it has
two very important things that
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living creatures need
to survive, lots of oxygen
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and lots of water. Its
distance from the sun means its
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not too hot and not too cold
for creatures to live on too.
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It's the fifth-largest planet
in our solar system and the
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only one known for sure to have
liquid water on its surface.
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Ahead of us now,
four minutes away is Mars,
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the fourth planet from the sun.
Mars is named after the Roman
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god of war, it's also
known as the Red Planet
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because well, it's red.
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Mars is the second smallest
planet in our solar system
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after Mercury. One of
NASA's latest projects that have
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captivated the interest of
the world is the landing of the
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Perseverance Rover on Mars
on the 18th of February 2021.
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And then on the 19th of
April 2021 Ingenuity, the first
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robotic helicopter completed the
first power-controlled flight by
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an aircraft on Mars.
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The Rover carried
signed instruments to collect
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soil samples and to look
for signs of ancient life.
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It even has audio/visual
technology which captured the
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flight of
Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter.
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This footage will let us
see and hear what it's like
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to touch down on another
world for the first time ever.
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Mars has long intrigued
us and has a special appeal
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but we must move on.
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We now head for the
fifth planet from the sun
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and by far the largest
planet in the solar system.
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Jupiter. Traveling at the speed
of light, it takes 30 minutes
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to get there, we are awed by
its size, it's more than twice
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as massive as all the other
planets in our solar system
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combined, it would
require 1,312 worlds the size of
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planet earth to
match the size of Jupiter.
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Fittingly it's named after
the king of the gods in Roman
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Mythology, it's also the fastest
spinning planet and has the
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shortest day of all the planets.
But the call of the outer
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planets beckons. Another
36 minutes into outer space
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brings us to Saturn, the
sixth planet from the sun
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and the beautiful
queen of the solar system.
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Saturn is the second
largest planet after Jupiter
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and is adorned with a
magnificent system of icy rings
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composed of billions of
tiny chunks of ice and rock.
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Saturn is named after the Roman
god of agriculture and harvest.
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now the trip from Saturn
to Uranus, the seventh planet
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from the sun takes an
hour and a quarter and remember
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every minute we
travel 18 million kilometers.
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Uranus was named after
the Greek god of the sky
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and is a giant ice planet,
four time larger than our earth.
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It's the coldest planet in our
solar system and makes one trip
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around the sun every 84
years. Rushing on we travel for
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1.5 hours to Neptune, the
eighth and last planet in the
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solar system. It's the
farthest planet from our sun
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more than 30 times further
than the sun than earth is.
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It's dark, cold, and very windy
and is named after the Greek god
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of the sea. This planet is
so far from earth that it can
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only be studied with the
greatest difficulty using
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strong telescopes. For many
years we thought that there were
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nine planets in our solar
system but in August 2006,
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the International Astronomical
Union downgraded the status of
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Pluto, which used to be
the ninth planet, to that of a
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dwarf planet, that means
its a celestial body that orbits
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the sun but doesn't meet
the criteria of a true planet.
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So our journey across the
solar system ends at Neptune.
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Now it's difficult to
grasp just how many millions of
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kilometers we have
traveled in such a short time.
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In fact, traveling at the speed
of light, we've crossed our
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entire solar system in
about five and a half hours
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and when we reach Neptune,
we're about four and a half
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billion kilometers
from the Parke's Dish.
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But notice what we
have discovered about our
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solar system, these
eight planets and their moons
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swing majestically around
the sun all timed to perfection
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moving consistently in their
orbits and spinning perfectly
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on their axis from little
Mercury to far away Neptune.
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we find rhythmic perfection,
we see that order and design
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no chance and Chaos
can control the movements
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of the heavenly bodies.
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Now that we've crossed
our solar system our journey
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through star-land
has only just begun.
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Our solar system is
part of the Milky Way Galaxy
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so now let's leave our
solar system and set out towards
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one of our nearest
stars in this galaxy.
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Alpha Centauri, back into
our beam of light and traveling
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at 18 km a minute, it takes
us four years and four months.
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Now that's so far that
it's virtually impossible for us
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to grasp the immensity and
glory of space so consider this.
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We've just traveled through
our solar system with its
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single sun, it's a sun system.
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Our sun takes its entire
family of planets and moons
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with it on its journey through
space. Our sun and solar system
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belong to the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Now to help put this in
perspective, if the Milky Way
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Galaxy were the size of
the continent of Australia,
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our solar system
would fit in a coffee cup.
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Now, try to get
your head around this.
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Just in our Milky Way Galaxy,
there are over 200 billion stars
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like our sun, each with their
own family of planets and moons.
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Our sun is just one of those
200 billion stars that make up
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the Milky Way
Galaxy but that is not all.
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There are at least 10 billion
galaxies in the universe.
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Our Milky Way Galaxy with its
200 billion stars is just one
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of the 10 billion galaxies
that make up the universe.
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Now our journey so far
has taken us through our
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solar system and far
into our Milky Way Galaxy.
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But can you believe that
this is still only the beginning
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of the universe. So, we
now leave the Milky Way Galaxy
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and travel to one of the closest
large galaxies called Andromeda.
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Now Andromeda is approximately
the same size and shape
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as our Milky Way Galaxy.
Traveling at the speed of light
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it would take us
750,000 years to reach Andromeda
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and we're still only on
the doorstep of the universe.
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We are still only in
our neighborhood as it were.
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Now Andromeda is a galaxy of
mighty suns with cluster after
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cluster, sun system after sun
system all whirling in perfect
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balance and
precision through space.
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But our journey would not be
complete without viewing Orion,
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the majesty of the heavens,
a little closer to home.
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It's one of the most
recognizable patterns in the
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night sky,
visible around the world.
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The appearance of the
Orion Nebula is one of the most
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beautiful sights in the
heavens, is described as that of
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light shining and glowing
behind Herculean walls of Ivory
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or pearl, walls studded
with millions of diamonds points
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and everyone is a shining star.
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And these stars are in
reality giant blazing suns
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many of them
dwarfing our sun in size.
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It's difficult for the human
mind to comprehend innumerable
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worlds, immeasurable
space and the intricate design
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evident everywhere in the
universe, yet this incredibly
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complex universe is as
smooth running as a delicate
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finely tuned watch.
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Just think billions of galaxies
traveling at phenomenal speed
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in their appointed course
through the skies with timing
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so precise that
astronomers can predict the
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location of these heavenly
bodies thousands of years
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in the future. It's no wonder
humans have been fascinated
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and amazed by the beauty
and precision of the stars.
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Since ancient times for
thousands of years the beauty
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of the night sky has enchanted
and mystified people all over
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the world. Astronomy was
the first science of the ancient
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civilizations, they created
calendars and time measurements
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based on the movements of the
heavenly bodies and in a sense
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their lives were governed
by the seasons and the time
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measurements associated
with the stars and planets.
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The heavenly bodies
became so important to the lives
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of these people that
they began to worship them.
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The ancient Egyptians applied
their astronomy knowledge
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to their immense building
projects, they were able to
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construct pyramids with
amazing accuracy and planned
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their lives and
seasons according to the stars
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so they worshipped the stars.
This was also the case with the
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early Sumerian civilization
who built temple towers
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or Ziggurats for
the worship of the moon.
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Even further back in time on
the Salisbury Plains of England
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the ancient British Star Gazers
somehow moved stones 9 meters
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high and weighing 50 tons
to construct a center of Sun
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Worship, but it wasn't just a
table, it's a giant time keeping
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device and a kind of observatory
for studying and predicting
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the movements of the
moon as well as the sun.
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Then in Chichen Itza, one of
the sacred cities of the Mayan
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civilization in Mexico, they
built pyramids to the sun god.
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High in the Andes Mountains
at Machu Picchu, the Inca people
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worshipped the sun and other
heavenly bodies that played a
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major role in their lives.
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But the ancient Hebrews, the
Israelites responded differently
00:21:58.75\00:22:04.72
to the grandeur
of the night sky.
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They saw and marveled at the
order and precision of the night
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sky but instead of worshipping
the sky and the planets
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they saw the heavenly bodies
in their rhythmic perfection
00:22:16.23\00:22:20.04
as evidence of a Higher
Power, a Master Designer.
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The Higher Power, the Master
Designer, they called Jehovah
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or God and they saw the stars
and the universe as a creation
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of their God, and so rather
than worshipping the stars
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as gods as other civilizations
did, the Hebrews worshipped
00:22:39.92\00:22:44.99
the God who made the stars.
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They saw the stars as
evidence that their God
00:22:47.70\00:22:51.13
was the almighty creator God.
They believe the stars carried
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a message, a message concerning
the origin and destiny of the
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human race. Listen to the words
of the ancient Bible prophets.
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This concept of a creator God
colored Hebrew thinking and life
00:23:26.03\00:23:30.81
and formed the foundation
of Judea Christian Fort
00:23:31.17\00:23:35.74
which is underpinned
our own civilization.
00:23:35.78\00:23:38.71
This ancient wisdom is relevant
to us today, evidently the
00:23:38.75\00:23:45.22
heavens are providing
the answers to questions many
00:23:45.25\00:23:48.79
people are asking today,
answers about our origins
00:23:48.82\00:23:52.73
and our destiny. People
are asking and the skies are
00:23:52.76\00:23:57.73
talking back,
they carry a message.
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Many of us today are uncertain
about where we are going
00:24:00.44\00:24:06.21
or why uncertain
morally and spiritually.
00:24:06.24\00:24:09.88
We wonder if the universe
we live in is friendly or
00:24:09.91\00:24:14.62
unfriendly but we can find
answers to our questions by
00:24:14.65\00:24:19.52
looking to the stars, to
the planned precision of their
00:24:19.55\00:24:24.36
unfailing orbits and
discover who is behind it all.
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That's what the Bible prophets
advised. Notice these words.
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Yes ancient wisdom but
extremely relevant to modern
00:24:36.57\00:24:42.48
people. You see when we
study the stars we find rhythmic
00:24:42.51\00:24:47.32
perfection, we see that order
and design not chance and chaos
00:24:47.35\00:24:52.65
control the movements of
the stars and heavenly bodies.
00:24:52.69\00:24:56.76
Now order and
rhythmic perfection show design
00:24:56.79\00:25:00.70
and design means there must be
a designer, a master designer.
00:25:00.73\00:25:06.07
In the very first sentence
of the Bible pinpoints this
00:25:06.10\00:25:10.94
Master Designer, this Creator.
00:25:10.97\00:25:13.44
And here's what's really
amazing, this great creator
00:25:19.18\00:25:23.79
God cares about
you. Listen to this.
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Isn't that astounding?
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This big and powerful God who
made the stars actually cares
00:25:45.14\00:25:50.91
about you and the details
in your life, the big things,
00:25:50.95\00:25:54.98
the little things,
everything, He really does.
00:25:55.02\00:25:59.42
The creator of heaven and
earth is not a distant celestial
00:25:59.45\00:26:03.49
being, He's an intimate
Father who loves you dearly.
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God cares more about the inner
space of your heart than the
00:26:08.13\00:26:13.84
outer space of the universe.
You are most important to Him
00:26:13.87\00:26:19.04
and He really
does care about you.
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off course and just not sure of
00:26:28.72\00:26:33.25
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why, it happens to all of us.
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We've seen the work of
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