Our Universe
Somewhere in the Mind of God
exist the Universe, all that is known or is knowable by mankind. In that Universe lies a Galaxy called the Milky Way, only one of many, on the outer edge lies a rather ordinary star we call the Sun, or Helios, and around this sun orbit a family of planets, Our Solar System.

The Horsehead Nebula in the
Constellation of Orion

Our Family of Planets 
    To the right are pictures of the Major planets in the our Solar System and all have been photographed with our large telescopes and in fly-bys of our space probes. In order moving away from the sun (top to bottom) are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto the outermost planet and not in the photo, has not been photographed close up.

Our Planet Earth   
    Earth; or Gaia, from which we get the prefix Geo, is a rather small planet when compared to the giants, like Jupiter and Saturn but it is big to us. The equatorial circle is 24,902.8772-miles, we are93 million miles from the sun, and it's 240 thousand miles to the Moon.
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