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Ways of Knowing: Our Sun in the Universe Poster

This poster explores the Sun's 11-year solar cycles, magnetic fields, and immense gravity to explain planetary orbits and cosmic evolution.
NASA / NASA HEAT / Chantil Hunt Estevez
Levels
  • Intermediate (6-8)
  • Advanced (9-12+)
Material Type
  • Diagram/Illustration
  • Educator/Facilitator Guide
  • Poster
Heliophysics Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 1.1 – The Sun is really big…
  • Big Idea 1.2 – The Sun is active…
  • Big Idea 1.3 – The Sun’s energy drives Earth’s climate…
  • Big Idea 3.2 – Energy from the Sun is created in the core…
  • Big Idea 3.1 – The Sun is made of churning plasma…
  • Big Idea 2.3 – The Sun is the primary source of light…
  • Big Idea 3.3 - Our Sun, like all stars, has a life cycle.
  • Big Idea 2.2 – The Sun defines the space…
NGSS
  • ETS1 - Engineering Design
  • PS4 - Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
  • LS2 - Ecosystems
  • LS1 - Molecules to Organisms
  • PS1 - Matter and its Interactions
  • PS2 - Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
  • PS3 - Energy
Heliophysics Topics
  • Corona
  • Coronal Mass Ejection
  • Electromagnetic Spectrum
  • Electromagnetism
  • Universe
  • Technology
  • Sunspot
  • Sun
  • Stars
  • Solar Wind
  • Solar System
  • Solar Flare
  • Solar Cycle
  • Radiation
  • Radio Blackout
  • Plasma
  • Physics
  • Light
  • Ionization
  • Interstellar Space
  • Energy
Heliophysics Missions
  • Voyager
Material Cost per Learner Free
Language English

Project Description:

This poster explores the Sun's 11-year solar cycles, magnetic fields, and immense gravity to explain planetary orbits and cosmic evolution. Discover how coronal mass ejections, sunspots, and the electromagnetic spectrum demonstrate the Sun's power as a massive ball of churning plasma. The imagery focuses on studying how solar energy and gravity shape the formation and environments of rocky planets like Earth and Mars, and ultimately how NASA Heliophysics encompasses much more than just the study of our Sun.

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This poster explores the Sun's 11-year solar cycles, magnetic fields, and immense gravity to explain planetary orbits and cosmic evolution.
NASA / NASA HEAT / Chantil Hunt Estevez

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